Explorer Tim Severin, who famously reenacted the voyage of St Brendan the Navigator in 1976, will visit Craggaunowen, Co Clare this month to mark the 40th anniversary of his legendary journey. In 1976 ...

In the sixth century, an intrepid Irish monk by the name of Brendan sailed across the North Atlantic in a leather boat; landing in Newfoundland, he became the first European to find America. Or so the ...

St. Brendan is one of the most famous Irish saints, but whether he discovered America has remained one of the continuing Irish mysteries. The famous text, the Voyage of St. Brendan is a work of ...

Saint Brendan of Clonfert is often referred to Brendan the Voyager. He is Irish monastic saint born in 484 in Ciarraighe Luachra, near the present city of Tralee, County Kerry and died in 577. Besides ...

He and his crew sailed from Ireland to Newfoundland in a 36-foot boat like the one a sixth-century monk is believed to have used to cross the Atlantic. By Richard Sandomir Tim Severin, a British ...