Why medieval Ireland was known as the island of saints
Updated / Wednesday, 17 Mar 2021
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St Jarlath as depicted in a stained glass window designed by Richard King in 1961 in Tuam cathedral. Photo: Andreas F. Borchert/Wikipedia Creative Commons
Analysis: we know all about St Patrick and St Brigid, but what about Ireland s other medieval saints?
While Ireland s saints are best known as figures from a distant past, they nevertheless remain an intrinsic part of our culture. From the making of St Brigit s Cross on February 1st to the celebration of St. Patrick s Day on March 17th, these annual events are a contemporary reminder of Ireland’s medieval history. Even saints who are much less famous than Patrick and Brigit continue to be commemorated in various townlands and parishes throughout Ireland. Many of these places are even named after these saints, such as Kilbeggan (Co. Westmeath), meaning The Church of St. Bécán’ or Toberjarlath (Co. Galway) meaning The Well
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13th March 2021
George O Brien Kennedy FRINA, (1912-1998). Known to everyone as Brian, and renowned as a dreamer of dreams, he is seen here in his early days of pioneering the Shannon Hire-Boat industry in the 1960s
You know how it is. You re wondering if the slightly odd flavour of the evening cuppa is a hint of the imminence of the C-Monster s indicator of taste-loss. All this, too, just as it s increasingly clear that your already-proposed personal date with the jab before the end of March now seems less and less likely to be on schedule. And then the phone rings, and this guy shoots straight from the hip:
Died: December 18, 2020. IN 1976, a 36-foot leather boat graunched up on a beach of the Hebridean island of Iona. The two-masted curragh, Brendan, had been made out of quarter-inch-thick skins from 49 cattle, sewn with almost two miles of leather thongs on to a highly flexible oak and ash frame that was designed to bend with the waves. Its skipper, Tim Severin, who has died in Ireland aged 80, was a slender and dapper young man who was once described as being like a golf-club secretary. He amazed onlookers with the news that his plan was to sail and row his wobbly boat across the Atlantic.
Longford’s connection with the late Tim Severin s Brendan boat voyage
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July 3, 1977: The Brendan boat in St John s Harbour, Newfoundland. Tim Severin (left) and Aidan O Hara (right) );
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Aidan O’Hara recalls his and Longford’s connection with the late Tim Severin s Brendan boat voyage to North America in 1977 and then hit F10 to change the body for the rest of the stand first
“There’s a man I am almost in awe of.” The man speaking was Tim Severin, explorer and skipper of the Brendan boat, and the man he referred to was Tróndur Patursson from the Faroe Islands, one three members of Tim’s crew.