The Irish Folklore Centre

Providing a focus for the whole Irish folk tradition

The Voyage of St Brendan

This is the St Brendan of counties Clare, Galway and Kerry of the sixth century.  The story of his voyage is dated to the ninth or early tenth century.  To have included two voyages may seem excessive, but it shows the evolution of traditional/pagan stories into christianised ones.  I have chosen to cover all the […]