Background Pangur Bán or “White Pangur” is an anonymous poem written in Old Irish around the 9th century originating, it is presumed, from the Abbey of Reichenau; a Benedictine Monastery founded on an island of the Rhine River in 724 AD by the itinerant Saint Pirmin. Download: Pangur Bán a 9th C. Old Irish Poem … Continue reading The White Cat and the Monk – Pangur Bán, a 9th C. Old Irish Poem