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Thu 07 Jul 2008Dark Ages lit by Irish monks' computing skills
THE SO-CALLED Dark Ages were anything but dark, according to a historical scholar at NUI Galway.
The years from AD 500-1,000 were the "Golden Age" for Irish medieval scholarship. It was a time when wandering Irish monks made their definitive mark on the European study of mathematics, astronomy and the sciences, states Prof Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, the director of NUI Galway's Foundations of Irish Culture Project.
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