Why is Ireland popularly call the "come to rest of saints and scholars"?
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Answers: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ancientireland/r...
http://www.libraryireland.com/JoyceHisto...
Those are 2 solid websites with Irish history. The together 'saints and scholars' thing is b/c Ireland have a strong monastic tradition (St. Patrick supposedly appeared on the scene in the 5th century). The monks and the filidh/filí be keepers of adjectives sorts of knowledge. I reflect on the scholars sector of that moniker comes from ... maybe the middle ages. While the rest of Europe be kind of contained by the dark, if you will, during this time - Ireland wasn't hit so thorny (I guess b/c it's an isolated island). But the monks really kept things going at this time when lots of documents/what not were lost on the continent.
In the 7th century paganism have disappeared. Monastic schools have overshadowed all school and the best of the irish students went out of the country to bring knowledge to western europe. Missionary monks from Ireland be reintroducing secular ideas to western europe. Ireland have become the "Isle of Saints and Scholars" Ireland has other produced clever people (like Scotland) - the schooling system is held in dignified esteem. Saints because Southern Ireland is a predominately Catholic so Saints abound, as it were.
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