A Monk on Lambay Island.
I am Brother Ciaran and I am a Monk on Lambay island. The name of the Monastery I live in is called Lambay Abbey. I am 8O years old this year. I live in a cell with another Monk. His name is Brother Patrick. We are the Monastery cooks, which isn't hard because we don't have a lot of food. There are 148 other Monks in the Monastery. We spend our lives praying. We are always afraid that we will be attacked. A little while ago we saw strange boats float by us. They were very, very long. The people on the boats looked foreign. They came on to the island and we haven't seen them since. But we think that they will attack us, so we have put most of our valuable things away in the round house. The round house is our bell tower and if we get attacked we will hide ourselves and our goods there. I better go because its my turn to cook supper for the Monks in the Monastery. We also take turns in watching the Monastery for enemies. We watch from the round house. Picture By: Sinead Donnelly, Ciara Cullen, and Maria O'Donoghue

2 hours later: We see some boats approaching the island. The boats are coming towards the island. We decide to tell the Abbot about the boats, while a Monk called Colm puts some of the Monastery's goods away in the safety of the round house. But we were a bit too late, the Vikings had shown their faces. They stole our chalices and a lot of other goods from the church.
Story By: Brona O'Donnell