Lady Gregory's Translation |

We craft and tell stories because we’ve stood on the uncertain edge between the waking world and our imagination, between enchantment and fear. And we remember other stories that help us build our own stories, scraps of lumber and fragments of narrative we gather together to make stories for ourselves.

The Voyage of Saint Brendan: Part 4

Posted on 5 February, 201311 January, 2013

A Most Wretched Ghost Then the wind turned and drove the ship southward through seven days, and they came to a great rock in the sea, and the sea breaking over it. And on the…Continue Reading

The Voyage of Saint Brendan: Part 3

Posted on 29 January, 201329 January, 2013

The Feast of the Resurrection And when Brendan had stopped there through Christmas and for Little Christmas, he bade good-bye to the Abbot and the brothers and went back to the ship with his people.…Continue Reading

The Voyage of Saint Brendan: Part 2

Posted on 22 January, 201322 January, 2013

Jasconye the Fish Then they went into the ship again and it was driven by storms till they saw before them another little island, and the brothers went to land on it but Brendan stopped…Continue Reading

The Voyage of Saint Brendan: Part 1

Posted on 15 January, 201315 January, 2013

His Vision of the Land of Promise It is a monk going through hardship Blessed Brendan was, that was born in Ciarraige Luachra of a good father and mother. It was on Slieve Daidche beside…Continue Reading