In the history of Irish monasticism one chapter has been curiously neglected: the Irish Benedictine tradition as a whole has never attracted the historian's attention. This volume seeks to redress this by providing for the first time a comprehensive survey of the ways in which Irish men and women have sought - and continue to seek - God by following the Rule of St. Benedict. In a scholarly but accessible fashion these essays celebrate and explore the Irish Benedictine tradition over a period of 1400 years.
