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Vitriolic comments dating back to the referendum make awkward reading for some of the participants today

Tue Aug 07 2007 at 6:57:53 "And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights." - Jonah 1:17 The belly of the whale: Jonah  (prophet of God, formerly of Galilee) The back of the whale: Saint Brendan  (Irish monk from Tralee in Ireland) The head of the whale: Tashtego (harpooneer on the whaler Pequod, formerly of Marthas Vineyard) The belly of the whale: James Bartley  (British seaman on the whaling ship Star of the East.) Four people, four "big fish" stories, some bette...

Why medieval Ireland was known as the island of saints Updated / Wednesday, 17 Mar 2021 12:08 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 Irelands other medieval saints?  While Irelands saints are best known as figures from a distant past, they nevertheless remain an intrinsic part of our culture. From the making o...

13th March 2021 George OBrien 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. Youre wondering if the slightly odd flavour of the evening cuppa is a hint of the imminence of the C-Monsters indicator of taste-loss. All this, too, just as its increasingly clear that your already-proposed personal date with the jab before the end of March now ...

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. ...

Longford’s connection with the late Tim Severins Brendan boat voyage Reporter: newsroom@longfordleader.ie July 3, 1977: The Brendan boat in St Johns Harbour, Newfoundland. Tim Severin (left) and Aidan OHara (right) );  ); Aidan O’Hara recalls his and Longford’s connection with the late Tim Severins 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,...

Meet Padma Shri Ali Manikfan: Marine Researcher, Ecologist, All Without Any Formal Education © Provided by Indiatimes Ali Manikfan from Minicoy Island, in Lakshadweep, was one of the 102 eminent Indian who has been bestowed with the Padma Shri Award this year, the fourth highest civilian honour of the country. The 82-year-old is an expert on several subjects, without even having any kind of formal training in any of them. © Provided by Indiatimes Wikimedia Born in 1938, Manikfan was sent t...

Words of an old air have been flitting around my head for weeks now. “The sea, oh the sea, is grá geal mo chroí.” This anthem to the briny foam speaks much to the spirit of our island nation, and the maritime link to the danger and daring of life before the mast. In the tumult of Christmas week, it almost passed unnoticed that one of Ireland’s greatest seafarers, Tim Severin, had trimmed the sails for his final voyage upon uncharted waters. An adventurer like they don’t make any more,...

Tim Severin was an Oxford undergraduate when he set off to recreate Marco Polo’s 13th-century journey from Italy to China along the Silk Road in 1961. “Three of us travelled in two motorcycles with

Sailor in leather boat challenged theory Columbus first to America We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Sailor in leather boat challenged theory Columbus first to America January 6, 2021 — 12.52pm Normal text size Advertisement Tim Severin, a British adventurer who for 40 years meticulously replicated the journeys of real and mythic explorers like St. Brendan the Navigator, Sinbad the Sailor and Marco Polo, died aged 80 on December 18 at his ho...