The Travels of St Colman ‘the Pilgrim

Guest Lecture by distinguished scholar Ian Fisher, FSA (London), FSAScot:

St Colmán, the 7th-century Irishman who founded a church on Inishbofin and another at Mayo, is best-known from the account of him in Bede’s History of the English Church.  While living in Northumbria, Colmán became embroiled in the Easter Controversy, after which he retreated to Ireland, bringing Irish and Saxon monks with him.  His and their legacy in Ireland and Britain is the subject of this talk by distinguished scholar Ian Fisher, FSA (London), FSAScot, author of many works on the architecture, archaeology and history of early medieval Scotland and Ireland.