Life
?-?583; prob. b. Tralee, Co. Kerry; founded monastery near Clonfert; d. at his sister’s foundation at Annaghdown, Co. Galway; pursued the peregrine mission of the Celtic Church; believed by some to have reached America; his voyages related in Navigatio Brendani, earlier thought to be an biography but now read as an example of the Gaelic immram genre; there is an early life in the Book of Lismore. ODNB DIB
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References
Bernard Share, ed., Far Green Fields, 1500 Years of Irish Travel Writing (Belfast: Blackstaff 1992), contains an extract from John
J. O’Meara, trans. Voyage of St Brendan (Dublin: Dolmen 1976).
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Belfast Public Library holds James Wilke, St Brendan the Voyager and His Mystic Quest (1916), 73pp.
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