HOW THE IRISH SAVED CIVILIZATION | IRELAND AFTER THE COLAPSE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]When Rome collapsed, the books of the ancient world [music] began to vanish.

[00:00:07]The people who saved them lived on the edge of nowhere.

[00:00:12]As Europe descended into chaos, Irish monks were doing something almost no one else was, >> [music] >> reading and copying.

[00:00:26]Cicero, Virgil, Horace, the poetry and philosophy of Rome came down to us partly because [music] Irish hands copied them by hand in the cold at the western end of the world.

[00:00:44]Then Irish monks carried those [music] books back into Europe and helped re-teach a continent how to read.

[00:00:53]We say Rome gave us civilization, but who saved it when Rome fell?