Iona College, a small Catholic liberal arts college in New Rochelle, NY is named after the island on which Columba established his first monastery in Scotland.

The main source of information about Columba's life is the Vita Columbae by Adomnán ( also known as Eunan ), the ninth Abbot of Iona, who died in 704.

St. Columba of Iona is thought to have studied under St. Mobhi, but left Glasnevin following an outbreak of plague and journeyed north to open the House at Derry.

There is a long street ( Iona Road ) in Glasnevin named in his honour.

The church on Iona Road is called Saint Columba's.

The Gaelic games of Gaelic football, hurling, camogie and Gaelic handball are all organised locally by Na Fianna CLG, while soccer is played by local clubs Iona FC ( now defunct ), Tolka Rovers, Glasnevin FC and Glasnaion FC.

It is, indeed, not improbable that it was as a result of this war that Lord Ochiltree's Committee formed the Statutes of Iona in 1609 and the Regulations for the Chiefs in 1616 was induced to insert a clause in the Statutes of Iona by which ' marriages contracted for several years ' were prohibited ; and any who might disregard this regulation were to be ' punished as fornicators '".

Iona () is a small island in the Inner Hebrides off the western coast of Scotland.

Mac an Tàilleir ( 2003 ) lists the more recent Gaelic names of Ì, Ì Chaluim Chille and Eilean Idhe noting that the first named is " generally lengthened to avoid confusion " to the second, which means " Calum's ( i. e. in latinised form " Columba's ") Iona " or " island of Calum's monastery ".

One feature of this name is that IONA has the same spelling as the island of Iona which is off the coast of Scotland but with which Irish people have strong cultural associations.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern noted the symbolism in a 2006 address in Edinburgh: Island of Iona is a powerful symbol of relationships between these islands, with its ethos of service not dominion.

The British-Irish Council is the expression of a relationship that at the origin of the Anglo-Irish process in 1981 was sometimes given the name Iona, islands of the North Atlantic, and sometimes Council of the Isles, with its evocation of the Lords of the Isles of the 14th and 15th centuries who spanned the North Channel.

However, the island of Iona is probably a green heaven in that nobody lives on it and therefore it cannot be polluted in any way.

This is akin to the present system of ' Iona '.

The main disadvantage of Gamines is that the player is not in position to give his best performance since he is likely to remain out for the better part of the match until an Iona is scored.

He is believed to be buried on Saint Columba's Holy Island of Iona in or around the monastery.

* 563: The monastery on Iona is founded by St. Columba.

Whether it was or not, Iona was certainly important in the formation of Insular art, which combined Mediterranean, Anglo-Saxon, Celtic and Pictish elements into a style of which the book of Kells is a late example.

The St. Martin's Cross on Iona is the best-preserved high cross, probably inspired by Northumbrian free-standing crosses, such as the Ruthwell Cross, although a similar cross exists in Ireland ( Ahenny, County Tipperary ).

The obvious conclusion is that whoever ruled the petty kingdoms of Dál Riata after its defeat and conquest in the 730s, only Áed Find and his brother Fergus drew the least attention of the chroniclers in Iona and Ireland.

Its name implies associations dating back to the time of Columba and, although undocumented before the 12th century, it may have served the monks of the Columban family as an ' Iona of the east ' from early times.

Its modern Gaelic name means " Iona of ( Saint ) Columba " ( formerly anglicised " Icolmkill ").

The first album Iona concentrated mostly on the history of the island of Iona, from which the band got its name.

Iona returned in 1992 with The Book of Kells, a concept album with several tracks based on pages from the book of the same name.

Iona Township is the name of some places in the U. S. state of Minnesota:

Miles Christi was a name given to the members of the Iona Community by its founder George MacLeod.

* Iona ( name )

* Iona, a Russianized form of the name Jonah

* Iona or Ionah, Hawaiianized form of the name Jonah used by Jonah Piikoi

There was also a certain Flann, son of an Abbot of Iona called Maol-duine who died in 890, and who may have loaned his name to these isolated isles.

* Hy Abbey, an old name for island and hence Iona Abbey

* Hy ( island ), an pre-Christian and early Christian name for Iona, ( See the Etymology section in the link )

Adwen, Canauc ( Cynog ), Cleder ( Clether ), Dilic ( Illick ), Endelient ( Endelienta ), Helie, Johannes ( Sion ), Iona, Juliana ( Ilud ), Kenhender ( Cynidr ), Keri ( Curig ), Mabon ( Mabyn ), Menfre ( Menefrewy ), Merewenne ( Marwenna ), Morewenna ( Morwenna ), Nectanus ( Nectan ), Tamalanc, Tedda ( Tetha ), Wencu ( Gwencuff, Gwengustle, name of Saint Nennocha ), Wenheden ( Enoder ), Wenna ( Gwen ), Wensent, Wynup ( Gwenabwy ) and Yse ( Issey ).

Lovedale is also the name of a house on the Isle of Iona in Scotland.

Kilmacolm is generally believed to take its name from the Scots Gaelic language, meaning cell or church of Columba, derived from the dedication of an ancient church to St. Columba of Iona.

It is thought the shallow crossing of the River Till ( a ford ) which gave the village its name, was probably a crossing place for monks and nuns travelling between the monasteries at Iona and Lindisfarne during the Anglo-Saxon period.

One British folk / rock band ( 1969 – 2003 ), Lindisfarne, was even named after the island, while a Celtic Christian progressive rock band named after another island, Iona, has a song devoted to Lindisfarne on its album Journey into the Morn ( 1995 ).

* Iona ( band ), a progressive rock band from the UK

A network of Celtic high crosses marking processional routes developed around his shrine at Iona.

In the following century an Irish missionary Columba would found a monastery, on Iona, and introduce the previously pagan Scotti to Celtic Christianity, and with less success the Picts of Pictland.

Eventually, Northumbria was persuaded to move to the Roman practice and the Celtic Bishop Colman of Lindisfarne returned to Iona.

Initially the kingdom was evangelised by Irish monks from the Celtic Church, based at Iona in modern Scotland, which led to a flowering of monastic life.

Northumbria played an important role in the formation of Insular art, a unique style combining Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Pictish, Byzantine and other elements, producing works such as the Lindisfarne Gospels, St Cuthbert Gospel, the Ruthwell Cross and Bewcastle Cross, and later the Book of Kells, which was probably created at Iona.

Monks from Iona under St. Aidan founded the See of Lindisfarne in Anglo-Saxon Northumbria in 635, whence Celtic practice heavily influenced northern England.

The following dates are derived from Haddan and Stubbs: South Ireland, 626-8 ; North Ireland, 692 ; Northumbria ( converted by Celtic missions ), 664 ; East Devon and Somerset, the Celts under Wessex, 705 ; the Picts, 710 ; Iona, 716-8 ; Strathclyde, 721 ; North Wales, 768 ; South Wales, 777.

The “ Ionan ” practice was that of the Irish monks who resided in a monastery on the isle of Iona ( a tradition within " Celtic Christianity "), whereas the “ Roman ” tradition kept observances according to the customs of Rome.

The crosses often, though not always, feature a stone ring around the intersection, forming a Celtic cross ; this seems clearly an innovation of Celtic Christianity, perhaps at Iona.

However the dates assigned to most of the early crosses surviving in good condition, whether at Ruthwell and Bewcastle, the Western Ossery group in Ireland, Iona or the Kildalton Cross on Islay, have all shown a tendency to converge on the period around or slightly before 800, despite the differences between the Northumbrian and Celtic types.

By the time Iona released their first self-titled album in 1990, drummer Terl Bryant, bassist Nick Beggs ( formerly the bassist of Kajagoogoo ), Fiona Davidson on Celtic harp, Peter Whitfield on strings, Troy Donockley on Uillean pipes and percussionist Frank Van Essen had joined the band.

Wilfrid's speech in favour of adopting Roman church practices helped secure the eclipse of the " Celtic " party in 664, although most Irish churches did not adopt the Roman date of Easter until 704, and Iona held out until 716.

James A. Wylie ( 1808 – 1890 ) makes a strong case that the Culdees ( Keledei ) of Scotland are related to the Celtic Christian spirituality of the monks of Iona.

Irish examples with a head in Celtic cross form include the Cross of Kells, Ardboe High Cross, the crosses at Monasterboice, and the Cross of the Scriptures, Clonmacnoise, as well as those in Scotland at Iona and the Kildalton Cross, which may be the earliest to survive in good condition.

Alexander and Euphemia Ritchie, working on the Isle of Iona in Scotland from 1899 to 1940, popularised use of the Celtic Cross in jewellery.

St Martin's Cross, a high Celtic Cross carved in stone, stands to this day outside the entrance to the Church of Iona Abbey.

Here, with a few companions, she learned the traditions of Celtic monasticism, which Aidan brought from Iona.

Early Anglo-Saxon manuscript illumination forms part of Insular art, a combination of influences from Mediterranean, Celtic and Germanic styles that arose when the Anglo-Saxons encountered Irish missionary activity in Northumbria, at Lindisfarne and Iona in particular.