Category: English

Well, this is what we did not get to see but I am aware that some of our blog readers might get a chance to actually go to Ireland on holidays so a here’s something worth seeing. On the way between Dublin and Cavan you can find the amazing Book of Kells, thanks to Joe who was our devoted care taker at least we found out about it. The Book of Kells is an illuminated manuscript in Latin, that contains the four Gospels of the New Testament, a fragment of Hebrew names, and the Eusebian canons. It is also known as "Book of Columba", probably because it was written in the monastery of Iona to honour the saint. It was transcribed by Celtic monks, and it is a masterpiece of…

At the beginning of this week we attended our two-day E-step meeting in Ireland. As usually time was too short to visit around, but at least we’re propud to have managed getting things done and checking all through our agenda. Definitly the name of our hotel (Kilmore) was a big hint for the meeting that would come, although we were a bit picky about the fact it did not state a very specific, nor measurable objective. It should have been "kill all" instead of "more"! ;) Killing did involve tasks so no actual violence was recored. We had two good days of hard work and managed to get a lot of things done, starting with our comparative research, road map, reports, evaluations and plannig our next steps. We would like…