This monastic complex, perched since about the 7th century on the steep sides of the rocky island of Skellig Michael, some 12 km off the coast of south-west Ireland, illustrates the very spartan ...

James Beale's 1845 painting Skellig Night on South Mall gets across the carnival atmosphere of Shrove Tuesday in Cork, as people are mocked and manhandled by the light of torches and bonfires.