The Book of Kells and the Visual Identity of Ireland

Abstract

Th e Book of Kells' exact time and place of origin remains a mystery, although an 'uneasy scholarly consensus' holds, at present, that it was created around 800 CE .Bernard Meehan, the Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin, suggests that '[t] he book might have been produced on Iona before the Norse raid of 795, or at Kells during a period of calm enjoyed aft er the building of the church in 814, or partly made in both monasteries.Th at areas of decoration are unfi nished on several pages might seem to support the view . . .that it was rescued from Iona and brought to

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