In the next three centuries, the “issue of Anglo-Saxon versus Celtic influence has been the subject of much debate” (Howie). Augustine of Canterbury arrived in England in 597 A.D., he brought with him a completely different Mediterranean style of worship and art. This reflects how monks from outside cultures came to Ireland.
In the film’s remote monastery of ninth-century Ireland, Asian and African monks are present, and they all are living and working peacefully together.
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Just as how Celtic paganism and Christianity are intertwined in art, so are they too, as the movie suggests, tangled in real history yet, rather emphasizing how different each culture is, the filmmakers instead chose to create a sense of how universal the appreciation of beauty and art is for all cultures and races. She hides beneath the disguise of a white wolf as the adult Brendan travels across her forest many years later, knowing that the old time can never come back to her and young Brendan anymore. Yet this acculturation also has a price:even Aisling realizes that her time and her way of life are gone. In the movie, as Brendan is painting, he is drawing inspiration from trees, animals, nature, and there is a playfulness in his design in the history of art, illuminated manuscripts like The Book of Kells and The Lindisfarne Gospels (and their vivid images and twisted letters) are the invisible words spoken about pagan culture in the British Isles, and “help make the strange written text that is so central to the Christian more familiar to the only recently Christianized people” (Diebold, 24). She is cautious and even hostile when Brendan first stumbles across her domain, but when she realizes Brendan and his art could preserve her heritage, she begins to help him and his marvelous project. The forest she lives is the materialization of Celtic culture and she the personification, both of which are dying because of the spread of Christianity. Her friendship with Brendan suggests that, despite the seemingly conflicting ideas in Christianity and paganism, “Christian virtue and a love of nature, so often associated with paganism, are not mutually exclusive” (Overstreet). Aisling, a figure of Irish mythology, is as much of an important figure as Brandan. This “confrontation” is mainly peaceful as shown in the film. The old Celtic pagan religion, and its clash with Christianity, is perhaps the most important theme explored in the movie, although it does so in a subtle way. Through the lens of the creation of The Books of Kells, the movie explores the adaptation of Celtic culture into insular Christianity, the artistic representations of which, The Book of Kells, reflects the cultural and ethnic interaction in both medieval Ireland and the contemporary world. Aiden sees Brendan’s great potential in manuscript illumination and begins to train him so that one day Brendan may finish the work he and his brothers started in Iona. Aiden brings with him the book of Iona, an unfinished illuminated manuscript of the Gospels. Mick Lally), a famous illuminator who escaped the Viking attack and came to Kells as a refugee. Brendan, however, is distracted by the unexpected arrival of brother Aiden (v. It is a time of instability and insecurity, so abbot Cellach decides to use all the resources he has to build a giant wall to protect his people from the Vikings. Evan McGuire), a 12-year-old boy who lives in a monastery with his uncle Cellach (v. As its name suggests, the movie centers on the story of the most celebrated national treasure of Ireland, The Book of Kells, and its creation in around the first decade of the ninth century, theage of Vikings.
Based on the story Tomm Moore wrote, it premiered on Januat Géardmer Film Festival in France, received worldwide acclaim, and was even nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Film.
The Secret of Kells (2009), co-directed by Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey, is an astonishing homage to Ireland and Celtic culture.
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