It's the story of a young monk (Brendan) learning about illuminating and his various adventures with a very cool fairy Aisling ('Ashling') while trying to finish the Book of Kells to preserve civilisation in the face of Viking raiders.
The animation is just stunning. It's done very differently to most recent animations. It's very '2D', taking its inspiration (very cleverly) from the original Book of Kells.
I had to order my DVD copy from Ireland. Hopefully now that it's been nominated for an Oscar, it'll be more readily available everywhere. It deserves to be!
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