GREAT ACTIVITY FOR ST. PATRICK'S DAY IN MARCH! (will take longer than one session...) THE BOOK OF KELLS: kids will love this --it exposes them to a new part of the world and invites them to enter an unbelievable film!
The Book of Kells (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) is celebrated for its lavish decoration. The manuscript contains the four Gospels in Latin, written on vellum (prepared calfskin), in a bold and expert version of the script known as "insular majuscule".
The place of origin of the Book of Kells is generally attributed to the scriptorium of the monastery founded around 561 by St Colum Cille on Iona, an island off the west coast of Scotland. In 806, following a Viking raid on the island which left 68 of the community dead, the Columban monks took refuge in a new monastery at Kells, County Meath. It must have been close to the year 800 that the Book of Kells was written, although there is no way of knowing if the book was produced wholly at Iona or at Kells, or partially at each location.
It has been on display in the Old Library at Trinity College Dublin from the mid 19th century, and attracts over 500,000 visitors a year. Since 1953 it has been bound in four volumes. Two volumes are on public view, one opened to display a major decorated page, and one to show two pages of script. The volumes are changed at regular intervals.
The Book of Kells (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) is celebrated for its lavish decoration. The manuscript contains the four Gospels in Latin, written on vellum (prepared calfskin), in a bold and expert version of the script known as "insular majuscule".
The place of origin of the Book of Kells is generally attributed to the scriptorium of the monastery founded around 561 by St Colum Cille on Iona, an island off the west coast of Scotland. In 806, following a Viking raid on the island which left 68 of the community dead, the Columban monks took refuge in a new monastery at Kells, County Meath. It must have been close to the year 800 that the Book of Kells was written, although there is no way of knowing if the book was produced wholly at Iona or at Kells, or partially at each location.
It has been on display in the Old Library at Trinity College Dublin from the mid 19th century, and attracts over 500,000 visitors a year. Since 1953 it has been bound in four volumes. Two volumes are on public view, one opened to display a major decorated page, and one to show two pages of script. The volumes are changed at regular intervals.
IMAGES OF IRELAND & THE BOOK OF KELLS
Information about the film HERE
Before the film resource
view what is perhaps the MOST CREATIVE film I've ever seen! (enrichment guide)

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