The ‘Colm Cille’s Spiral’ is a project involving artists, writers and scholars from across all the countries of the British Isles in which I took part in 2013. Conceived as a collaboration between practising artists and scholars in the academy, Difference Exchange, an arts agency, and King’s College London, engaged the collaboration of groups from Derry, Dublin, Glasgow, Llandeilo and Lichfield, and London. The investigation and production of art and scholarly work was set to address ‘the apparently remote history of a sixth century monk (St Columba/Colmcille)