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Brian Nolan's Blog – January 2017 Archive (2)
Prayer of St. Brendan the Navigator
When St. Brendan got back from his travels discovering America in a small wooden and leather boat around 564 AD, he wrote a book in Latin, 'Navigatio Brendani' or 'The Voyage of Brendan', which, some 900 years later (1477) convinced Christopher Columbus that there might just be something out there beyond the western…
Added by Brian Nolan on January 25, 2017 at 6:30am — 6 Comments
Unpacking 'The Wreck of the Hesperus'
'You look like the wreck of the Hesperus' was a much-used phrase in our house in Loughrea, 20 miles from the sea at Galway Bay. Boys, well you know boys, they never comb their hair, never wash their hands, wear the same clothes forever. . . . You know the type, and obstinately oblivious of their appearance. In Ireland,…
ContinueAdded by Brian Nolan on January 7, 2017 at 8:30am — 6 Comments
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