How Irish monks refused to sing from the same hymn-sheet as Cistercian fathers

The Irish Times

Dúchas describes Boyle Abbey as the most impressive surviving example in Ireland of a Cistercian Church of the early period. But a new book on the abbey suggests that its inhabitants and architecture were not always Cistercian in the strict sense. Primarily a detailed academic study of the architecture of Boyle and a dozen other churches west of the Shannon, Dr Kalkreuter's book includes a section on the history of the abbey and the order. The churches she examined were given the title "School of the West" by architectural historian Harold Leask nearly 40 years ago.

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