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The Legend of St Brendan

Author : Jude Mackley
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047442806
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Legend of St Brendan written by Jude Mackley and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legend of St Brendan is a study of two accounts of a voyage undertaken by Brendan, a sixth-century Irish saint. The immense popularity of the Latin version encouraged many vernacular translations, including a twelfth-century Anglo-Norman reworking of the narrative which excises much of the devotional material seen in the ninth-century Navigatio Sancti Brendani abbatis and changes the emphasis, leaving a recognisably secular narrative. The vernacular version focuses on marvellous imagery and the trials and tribulations of a long sea-voyage. Together the two versions demonstrate a movement away from hagiography towards adventure. Studies of the two versions rarely discuss the elements of the fantastic. Following a summary of authorship, audiences and sources, this comparative study adopts a structural approach to the two versions of the Brendan narrative. It considers what the fantastic imagery achieves and addresses issues raised with respect to theological parallels.

The Brendan Voyage

Author : Timothy Severin
Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780349107073
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Brendan Voyage written by Timothy Severin and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1996-01-04 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth-century voyage of St Brendan from Ireland to America, is one of the most fascinating of all sea legends. Could the myth of the Irish monk and his crew sailing the Atlantic in a boat made of leather, nearly a thousand years before Columbus, have been reality? In 1976, Tim Severin and a crew of four men, set out to recreate the Brendan legend. Using the exact same methods in constructing their sailing vessel, they set out on their hazardous voyage, making it one of the most inspiring expeditions in the history of exploration.

Brendan the Navigator

Author : Jean Fritz
Publisher : Puffin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780698117594
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Brendan the Navigator written by Jean Fritz and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1999-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts St. Brendan's life and voyage to North America long before the Vikings arrived.

The Voyage of Saint Brendan

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book The Voyage of Saint Brendan written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Brendan Voyage

Author : Tim Severin
Publisher : Gill Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brendan Voyage written by Tim Severin and published by Gill Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an extraordinary attempt to recreate St Brendan's journey to America, Tim Severin and his crew embarked on an epic voyage across the vast North Atlantic. Brilliantly written, this is their story.

The Voyage of St Brendan

Author : A.B. JACKSON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780375663
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book The Voyage of St Brendan written by A.B. JACKSON and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Voyage of St Brendan, A.B. Jackson tells the tale of the legendary seafaring Irish abbot. After burning a book of fantastical stories, Brendan is compelled to sail the ocean with a crew of six monks in a leather-skinned currach; his task, to prove the existence of wonders in the world and create a new book of marvels. Discoveries include Jasconius the island-whale, a troop of Arctic ghosts, a hellmouth of tortured souls, a rock-bound Judas, and the magical castle of the boar-headed Walserands.Although the roots of this legend lie in early Irish immrama and the Latin Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis of the ninth century, Jackson has taken the fourteenth-century Middle Dutch version of Brendan's voyage as the template for this engaging and spirited interpretation, making it recommended reading for scholars of medieval literature and lovers of fantasy adventure alike. The book includes a series of black and white linocuts by the American artist Kathleen Neeley.

St Brendan of Kerry, the Navigator

Author : Gearóid Ó Donnchadha
Publisher : Four Courts Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St Brendan of Kerry, the Navigator written by Gearóid Ó Donnchadha and published by Four Courts Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St Brendan the Navigator was born in Fenit, County Kerry, in 484. In fact and in legend he was one of the greatest saints in an era that gave us some of our most outstanding educators and missionaries - Finnian, Corngall, Kieran, Canice, Kevin, Columba, Carthagem Cormas, Jarlath, and Enda. All but Columba have been ignored, by and large. This short book seeks to set the record straight. It tells the remarkable story of Brendan from the best historical perspective and from available manuscript sources. It also shows why so many of our great saints and educators have been ignored. Included are translations of two manuscripts, the Irish Life (written first about 750) and the Navigatio (or voyage) of Brendan (written about 850). Included also are some extracts from the Latin Life of Brendan.

Saint Brendan and the Voyage Before Columbus

Author : Mike McGrew
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809167050
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Saint Brendan and the Voyage Before Columbus written by Mike McGrew and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Children will be astonished to learn that Ireland's Saint Brendan may have sailed to North America almost a thousand years before Columbus, in just a small open boat with a handful of brave monks -- a trip that's been duplicated and proved possible in modern times."--

Finding Bix

Author : Brendan Wolfe
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609385071
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Finding Bix written by Brendan Wolfe and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bix Beiderbecke was one of the first great legends of jazz. Among the most innovative cornet soloists of the 1920s and the first important white player, he invented the jazz ballad and pointed the way to “cool” jazz. But his recording career lasted just six years; he drank himself to death in 1931—at the age of twenty-eight. It was this meteoric rise and fall, combined with the searing originality of his playing and the mystery of his character—who was Bix? not even his friends or family seemed to know—that inspired subsequent generations to imitate him, worship him, and write about him. It also provoked Brendan Wolfe’s Finding Bix a personal and often surprising attempt to connect music, history, and legend. A native of Beiderbecke’s hometown of Davenport, Iowa, Wolfe grew up seeing Bix’s iconic portrait on everything from posters to parking garages. He never heard his music, though, until cast to play a bit part in an Italian biopic filmed in Davenport. Then, after writing a newspaper review of a book about Beiderbecke, Wolfe unexpectedly received a letter from the late musician's nephew scolding him for getting a number of facts wrong. This is where Finding Bix begins: in Wolfe's good-faith attempt to get the facts right. What follows, though, is anything but straightforward, as Wolfe discovers Bix Beiderbecke to be at the heart of furious and ever-timely disputes over addiction, race and the origins of jazz, sex, and the influence of commerce on art. He also uncovers proof that the only newspaper interview Bix gave in his lifetime was a fraud, almost entirely plagiarized from several different sources. In fact, Wolfe comes to realize that the closer he seems to get to Bix, the more the legend retreats.

The Voyage of Saint Brendan

Author : William Raymond Johnston Barron
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Voyage of Saint Brendan written by William Raymond Johnston Barron and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legend of St Brendan is one of the greatest legends of the Middle Ages. This volume presents numerous versions of Brendan's journey in translation, with supporting notes and commentary.

Brendaniana

Author : Denis O'Donoghue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Brendaniana written by Denis O'Donoghue and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Voyagers

Author : Padraic Colum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Voyagers written by Padraic Colum and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Voyage of Saint Brendan

Author : Gerard McNamara
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781491271094
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Voyage of Saint Brendan written by Gerard McNamara and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-08-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new verse translation from the Latin of the fabulous voyage of Saint Brendan the Navigator. This story tells of Saint Brendan's incredible 6th century voyage in search of Paradise and the wonders he found along the way. The adventures of this Irish Odysseus have been brought into English for the first time in language worthy of this wonderful story.

Brendan Behan

Author : Ulick O'Connor
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 0349140960
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Brendan Behan written by Ulick O'Connor and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Brendan Behan died in 1964 at the age of 41, he had rung the changes in his short life: bomber, gunman, borstal boy, alcoholic and, finally, international literary figure with the success of The Quare Fellow , The Hostage and Borstal Boy . But Behan drowned his talent in a whiskey bottle and became the caricature of an Irish stage drunk, clowning his way with oaths and stories between bars in Dublin, London, Paris and New York. Written in association with his widow, his mother and others of his family and friends, and old IRA comrades, this is a biography of Brendan Behan.

Borstal Boy

Author : Brendan Behan
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567921052
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Borstal Boy written by Brendan Behan and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This miracle of autobiography and prison literature begins: "Friday, in the evening, the landlady shouted up the stairs: 'Oh God, oh Jesus, oh Sacred Heart, Boy, there's two gentlemen here to see you.' I knew by the screeches of her that the gentlemen were not calling to inquire after my health . . . I grabbed my suitcase, containing Pot. Chlor., Sulph Ac, gelignite, detonators, electrical and ignition, and the rest of my Sinn Fein conjurer's outfit, and carried it to the window . . ." The men were, of course, the police, and seventeen-year-old Behan. He spent three years as a prisoner in England, primarily in Borstal (reform school), and was then expelled to his homeland, a changed but hardly defeated rebel. Once banned in the Irish Republic, Borstal Boy is both a riveting self-portrait and a clear look into the problems, passions, and heartbreak of Ireland.

The Storm King

Author : Brendan Duffy
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0804178151
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Storm King written by Brendan Duffy and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Deeply atmospheric, breathlessly suspenseful, with a ticking clock like no other—a terrific thriller.”—Lee Child Haunted by dark secrets and an unsolved mystery, a young doctor returns to his isolated Adirondacks hometown in a tense, gripping novel in the vein of Michael Koryta and Harlan Coben. Burying the past only gives it strength—and fury. Nate McHale has assembled the kind of life most people would envy. After a tumultuous youth marked by his inexplicable survival of a devastating tragedy, Nate left his Adirondack hometown of Greystone Lake and never looked back. Fourteen years later, he’s become a respected New York City surgeon, devoted husband, and loving father. Then a body is discovered deep in the forests that surround Greystone Lake. This disturbing news finally draws Nate home. While navigating a tense landscape of secrets and suspicion, resentments and guilt, Nate reconnects with estranged friends and old enemies, and encounters strangers who seem to know impossible things about him. Haunting every moment is the Lake’s sinister history and the memory of wild, beautiful Lucy Bennett, with whom Nate is forever linked by shattering loss and youthful passion. As a massive hurricane bears down on the Northeast, the air becomes electric, the clouds grow dark, and escalating acts of violence echo events from Nate’s own past. Without a doubt, a reckoning is coming—one that will lay bare the lies that lifelong friends have told themselves and unleash a vengeance that may consume them all. Praise for The Storm King “Brendan Duffy’s second book mingles horror, historical fiction, supernatural suspense and old-fashioned murder mystery, the rare phantasmagoria whose pieces click into a satisfying resolution. . . . This is a gutsy, intricate, evocative piece of mischief, much closer than anyone usually gets to that particular spell cast by Stephen King.”—USA Today “Duffy follows his debut, House of Echoes, with a stunning literary thriller, which combines accomplished wordsmithing with startling twists.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “An elaborately layered, creepily atmospheric story that blends haunting legends and the psychological terror of a murderer on the hunt. A winning thriller sure to draw readers of Jennifer McMahon, Ruth Ware, and Michael Koryta.”—Booklist (starred review)

Brendan Behan

Author : Michael O'Sullivan
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart
ISBN 13 : 1461660270
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Brendan Behan written by Michael O'Sullivan and published by Roberts Rinehart. This book was released on 2000-10-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as the new O'Casey by Irish critics in 1958, Behan is now often portrayed as the archetypal Irishman and spectacular drunk. Behind the myth lies the more compelling story of a writer who was never able to fully harness his larger-than-life personality and talent.