Early Irish Christianity and Its Artistic Impact

In early Irish Christianity, the monks held immense power and became scholars who advanced literacy and learning in a collapsing Europe. They preserved Irish mythology by writing down oral stories, introducing spaces between words in writing, adding a musicality to prose, and preserving distillation knowledge, leading to the invention of whiskey. This period marked the transition of writing from a data-collecting tool to an art form, laying the foundation for Irish literature and contributing to the world's literary legacy.