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The Brendan Voyage

‘A truly awesome sight loomed up out of the dark just downwind of us – the white and serrated edge of a massive floe, twice the size of Brendan and glinting with malice’

It has been described as the greatest epic voyage in modern Irish history.

Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and stretched over a wooden frame. This leather skin was only a quarter of an inch thick. Yet Severin and his crew sailed Brendan from Brandon Creek in Dingle to Newfoundland, surviving storms and a puncture from pack ice. The Brendan Voyage is Tim Severin’s dramatic account of their journey. This new edition of a book already translated into twenty-seven languages introduces a new generation of readers to an enduring classic.

Tim Severin didn’t prove St Brendan reached America, only that he could have, that it was possible. Brilliantly written, The Brendan Voyage conveys unforgettably the sensation of being in a small, open boat in the vastness of the North Atlantic, visited by inquisitive whales, reaching mist-shrouded landfalls, and receiving a welcome from seafaring folk wherever the crew touched land.

• Written by: Tim Severin
• Published by: Modern Library
• Date published: 4th April 2000
• ISBN: 9780375755248
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Tim severin, recreating saint brendan's legendary 6th-century atlantic journey.

The Brendan Voyage: Across the Atlantic in a Leather Boat [Audiobook] download free by Tim Severin

• Listen audiobook : The Brendan Voyage: Across the Atlantic in a Leather Boat
• Author : Tim Severin
• Release date : 2005 /12/11
• Publisher : GILL
• Language : English
• Genre or Collection : Biography
• ISBN : 9780717139279
• Rating : 8.6 of 10
• Votes : 550
• Review by: Eliana Small
• Review rating: 8.28 of 10
• Review Date: 2018/11/14
• Duration : 3H27M25S in 256 kbps (56 MB)
• Date of creation of the audiobook : 2018-08-10
• You can listen to this audiobook in formats : MP3, FLAC, WMA Lossless, WMA, WAV, MPEG4 (compression TGZ, RAR, RPM, ZIP, XZ, BZ2)
• Total pages original book : 280
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• Duration of the summary (audio) : 21M53S (6 MB)
• Description or summary of the audiobook : It has been described as the greatest epic voyage in modern Irish history.Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and stretched over a wooden frame. This leather skin was only a quarter of an inch thick. Yet Severin and his crew sailed Brendan from Brandon Creek in Dingle to Newfoundland, surviving storms and a puncture from pack ice. The Brendan Voyage is Tim Severin's dramatic account of their journey. This new edition of a book already translated into twenty-seven languages introduces a new generation of readers to an enduring classic.Tim Severin didn't prove St Brendan reached America, only that he could have, that it was possible. Brilliantly written, The Brendan Voyage conveys unforgettably the sensation of being in a small, open boat in the vastness of the North Atlantic, visited by inquisitive whales, reaching mist-shrouded landfalls, and receiving a welcome from seafaring folk wherever the crew touched land.
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• Dimensions: 140x216x18mm
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• Published in: Dublin, Ireland

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Tim Severin's The Brendan Voyage

While cataloguing the Irish Folklife currach collection, I am always conscious that the boats I am working on are as far from their natural environment as they could possibly be. While most of them once worked the inshore fishing spots of the Irish west coast and rested out in the open when not in use, they are now safely stored indoors in environmentally controlled conditions that will ensure their preservation. As a result of their being stored indoors, both prior to and after the National Museum of Ireland acquired them, the skins of some of our boats have dried out and become hard and inflexible. Except for those who have taken to the water in a currach over a lengthy period, it is difficult to appreciate how their simple design and natural materials will perform when faced with the harsh truths of the sea and the elements. Part of my work on our planned boat gallery at the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life is to talk to fishermen who worked, and still work, with currachs to understand the boat’s capabilities. Unfortunately, pandemic restrictions have prevented me from carrying out fieldwork and interviews but there are sources that provide first-hand accounts of experiencing travel by currach. Tim Severin’s book The Brendan Voyage is one of those sources.

Tim Severin (1940-2020). Photograph from www.timseverin.net.

Tim Severin was an explorer, author and historian who sadly passed away last month at the age of 80. Throughout 1976-1977, Severin led a small group of fellow explorers as they sailed the journey from Ireland west across the Atlantic Ocean to the Promised Land believed to have been completed by Saint Brendan in the sixth century. Saint Brendan had made the journey in a large currach made of a wooden frame and covered with tanned oxhides. Severin’s aim was to see whether Saint Brendan’s journey had been possible and to do that the group’s vessel would have to be as close a replica of the saint’s boat as possible which also meant using materials and building methods from that time.

The Brendan currach under construction in Crosshaven Boatyard showing its primitive wooden skeleton and hide skin. Photograph by Ian Yeomans.

The finished 36 foot boat, named Brendan, had a double gunwale of oak. Leather thongs were used to lash the ash frame together and the outside of the hull was then covered with 49 quarter of an inch thick oxhides that were stitched together and finished with a wool grease coating. Brendan’s two masts and oars were also made from ash and flax made suitable sails and ropes.

The Brendan currach. Photograph by Cotton Coulson.

The impressive construction of the boat was informed by thorough research, but how would she handle on the open waters of the rough Atlantic? Here, The Brendan Voyage gives us many practical and poetic descriptions of Brendan’s capabilities. Severin describes how Brendan’s light frame meant the boat could mould to the many waves that pounded its shell. The flexibility offered by the leather skin developed in Severin ‘a sense of being part of the sea’s motion’. He believed the leather survived so well in part due to the cold waters of the Atlantic.

The sides of the boat pumped gently in and out as though the Brendan were breathing

When Brendan was holed by drifting ice in the dangerous stretch between Greenland and Newfoundland, crew member George Molony had the unpleasant job of hanging over the gunwale in water temperatures as low as zero degrees centigrade in order to patch and stitch the hull while the boat kept sailing. Up to that point, ice had been glancing rather harmlessly off the curved hull of the currach.

Patches on the canvas skin of a National Museum of Ireland currach from Inis Oírr. © National Museum of Ireland.

The combination of Brendan’s medieval design and natural materials made it an extremely durable boat. Even during sea trials in advance of launching from Ireland, deliberate attempts to capsize Brendan were extraordinarily difficult. The currach could also be fast, when conditions were right. Brendan’s best 24-hour distance was an impressive 115 miles. Brendan reached her destination in June 1977. The large currach’s epic journey had proven that, in Tim Severin’s own words, ‘she was a true ocean-going vessel, and there was no longer any practical objection to the idea that Irish monks might have sailed their leather boats to North America before the Norsemen, and long before Columbus.’

My thanks to Afloat.ie for assistance in sourcing images.

Severin, Tim, The Brendan Voyage , London: Arrow Books Ltd., 1979.

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Hello Bill. The Brendan boat is on public display at Craggaunowen Castle in Co. Clare.

I just finished reading the Modern Library Exploration Edition of The Brendan Voyage and was amazed at the determination of the Crew through the entire process. I did wonder if the Brendan went to a museum after her adventure? It would have been a task to keep her in seaworthy condition, but as an old Sailor I hope she is still around. Great book overall.

Had the honor to meet Tim Severin onboard NatGeo’s Explorer May 2019 when he was a guest lecturer. He was engaging and his explorations so interesting. His contribution appreciated.

He will be missed by all.

Reading this brought back childhood memories of when the Brendan had to make an unscheduled stop at Ballywhoriskey along the Fanad coastline. I just submitted my words on it.

Thanks for your brief synopsis, it is a fascinating story. Mr Severin was a very brave man obviously a driven man but he must have done his research to a great extent to gather confidence for the journey. I love the sea but the thoughts of that challenge that they did with great success was truely remarkable. So proud of my name and of Mr. Severin. What a man!

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The Story of David Livingstone by Vautier Golding. Text on the Baldwin Project.

The Story of the World Volume 4 The Modern Age (2006) by Susan Wise Bauer. A Child's History of the World (1997) by Virgil Hillyer. What Everyone Should Know About the 20th Century: 200 Events That Shaped the World (1995) by Alan Axelrod, Charles Phillips. Augustus Caesar's World (1975) by Genevieve Foster. Trial and Triumph: Stories from Church History (1999) by Richard Hannula. Genesis, Finding Our Roots (1997) by Ruth Beechick. Never give in: the extraordinary character of Winston Churchill (1995) by Stephen Mansfield. The Sea Around Us (2011) by Rachael Carson. It Couldn't Just Happen (1989) by Lawrence Richards Secrets of the Universe: Discovering the Universal Laws of Science (1987) by Paul Fleisher. The Boy Scientist (1955) by John Bryan Llewellyn. Exploring Creation With . . . series by Jeannie Fulbright. Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity (1987) by Robert Cwiklik. Archimedes and the Door of Science (1962) by Jeanne Bendick. Galileo and the Magic Numbers (1958) by Sidney Rosen. All the recommended Mathematics books. The Hobbit (1937) by J. R. R. Tolkien. Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell. Black Ships before Troy (1993) by Rosemary Sutcliff. Where the Red Fern Grows (1961) by Wilson Rawls. The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia (1968) by Esther Hautzig. Winged Watchman (1962) by Hilda Van Stockum. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976) by Mildred D. Taylor. Blue Willow (1940) by Doris Gates. Miracles on Maple Hill (1957) by Virginia Sorensen. Letters from Rifka (1992) by Karen Hesse. Jungle Pilot: The Life and Witness of Nate Saint, Martyred Missionary to Ecuador (1960) by Russel T. Hitt. The Von Trapp Family Singers (2002) by Maria Von Trapp. Snow Treasure (1942) by Marie McSwigan. Number the Stars (1989) by Lois Lowry. The Ark (1953) by Margot Benary-Isbert. The Bronze Bow (1962) by Elizabeth Speare. God's Smuggler (1967) by Brother Andrew.

Booklist for Pre-7

Suggested reading for those entering Year 7 without first covering Ambleside Online Years 1-6.

Story of the Greeks by H. A. Guerber. New! Story of the Romans by H. A. Guerber.

Shakespeare

Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb. Poetry: see previous years.

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle. The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan.

Free Reading

Aesop's Fables . Fairy books by Andrew Lang. The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. The Jungle Book Books 1 and 2 , by Rudyard Kipling. Kim by Rudyard Kipling. Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling. Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling. The House of Arden by Edith Nesbit. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Other Anne of Avonlea books by Lucy Maud Montgomery:

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Little Men by Louisa May Alcott. Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott. The Iliad by Homer. Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott. Penrod by Booth Tarkington. The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney. Heidi by Joanna Spyri. Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge. The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit. The Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit. The Wouldbegoods by Edith Nesbit. New! Tales of Troy by Andrew Lang. The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle.

Trial and Triumph: Stories from Church History (1999) by Richard Hannula. The Story of the World Volume 4 The Modern Age (2005) by Susan Wise Bauer. Augustus Caesar's World (1975) by Genevieve Foster. The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956) series by C.S. Lewis. The Hobbit (1937) by J. R. R. Tolkien. Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell. Black Ships before Troy (1993) by Rosemary Sutcliff. Oxford Book of Children's Verse (1951) by Iona and Peter Opie. When We Were Very Young (1924) and Now We Are Six (1927) by A. A. Milne. Abraham Lincoln's World (1944) by Genevieve Foster. Of Courage Undaunted: Across the Continent with Lewis and Clark (2008) by James Daugherty. Charlotte's Web (1952) by E.B. White. Little House (1932-1943) series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Poor Richard (1958) by James Daugherty. Elizabeth Enright books. The Borrowers (1952) by Mary Norton.

Booklist for Year 7

Many recordings available including American Standard Version and King James Version . For recordings of all versions, please see this search .

Suggested Devotional reading

The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer. Text on Project Gutenberg.

Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People Magna Carta . In Freedom's Cause by G. A. Henty.

Biographies

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain. The Life of Alfred the Great by Asser.

Citizenship

Plutarch's Lives . N.B. This is the Bernadotte Perrin translation.

All completed recordings of plays, monologues and sonnets by William Shakespeare. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. The Age of Chivalry by Thomas Bulfinch. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The version read here was edited by D. Laing Purves “for popular perusal” in 1870 and the language is mostly updated. Purves left nearly all Latin quotations untranslated; the Project Gutenberg transcriber notes that he translated them "as well as he could". The Chaucer Story Book by Eva Tappan.

Beauties of Tennyson by Alfred Lord Tennyson. All completed recordings of poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. John Keats: Selected Poems by John Keats, including The Eve of St. Agnes . All completed recordings of poems by John Keats.

Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock. This recording includes Part I, The Teaching of Nature-Study and Part II, Animal Life, Chapter I, Bird Study. Recording of Part 2 is in progress . Part II: Animal Study includes Chapter II: Fish Study, Chapter III: Batrachian Study, Chapter IV: Reptile Study, and Chapter V: Mammal Study. The Life of the Spider by Henri Fabre.

Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight . A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain. Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch. The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Beowulf Translated by Francis Barton Gummere. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson. Völsungasaga by Eiríkr Magnússon and William Morris. The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott. Penrod and Sam by Booth Tarkington. Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Alhambra by Washington Irving. Saints and Heros vol 1 and vol 2 by George Hodges. The Betrothed by Sir Walter Scott. New! Rolf and The Viking Bow by Allen French.

English Literature for Boys and Girls by H. E. Marshall. Text on Project Gutenberg. Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Oxford Book of English Verse by another name) Text on Project Gutenberg. The Lay of the Land by Dallas Lore Sharp Book scan on Internet Archive. Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley. Text on Project Gutenberg. Count Robert of Paris by Sir Walter Scott. Text on Project Gutenberg. Castle Dangerous by Sir Walter Scott. Text on Project Gutenberg. The Fair Maid of Perth by Sir Walter Scott. Text on Project Gutenberg. In Progress Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott. Text on Project Gutenberg. Anne of Geierstein by Sir Walter Scott. Book scan on Internet Archive. Feats on the Fiord by Harriet Martineau. Text on Project Gutenberg. The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald by W. G. Collingwood and Jón Stefánsson Text on Project Gutenberg. A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales by Jonathan Nield. Text on Project Gutenberg.

Mere Christianity (1952) by C.S. Lewis. More Than a Carpenter (1977) by Josh McDowell. The Pursuit of Holiness (2006) by Jerry Bridges. The Birth of Britain (1956) by Winston Churchill. The Daughter of Time (1951) by Josephine Tey. History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea (1943) by William of Tyre (English Translation may not be in the Public Domain). The Brendan Voyage (1980) by Tim Severin. How the Heather Looks (1965) by Joan Bodger. Whatever Happened to Penny Candy (1989) by Richard Maybury. The Once and Future King (1958) by T. H. White. Watership Down (1972) by Richard Adams. A Taste of Chaucer (1964) by Anne Malcolmson. Our Mother Tongue: An Introductory Guide to English Grammar (2004) by Nancy Wilson. Jensen's Grammar. The Grammar of Poetry (2000) by Matt Whitling. Most of the recommended Science books, and all the Mathematics ones. The books of Edwin Way Teale. How To Read a Book (1972) by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren. The Story of Painting (1952) by H. W. Janson. Fearfully and Wonderfully Made (1983) by Paul Brand. The Lord of the Rings trilogy (1937-1949) by J.R.R. Tolkein (The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King). When the Tripods Came (1988); The White Mountains (1967); City of Gold and Lead (1967); and Pool of Fire (1968) by John Christopher. The Pushcart War (1964) by Jean Merrill. The Knight's Fee (2008) by Rosemary Sutcliff. The Gammage Cup (1959) by Carol Kendall. Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales .

Booklist for Year 8

Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings by Mary Johnston.

Queen Elizabeth's Farewell Speech Death's Duel by John Donne.

Bradford's History of the Plymouth Settlement by William Bradford. The Life of Dr. (John) Donne by Izaak Walton.

Plutarch's Lives . N.B. This is the Bernadotte Perrin translation. Utopia by Sir Thomas More. A number of essays by Francis Bacon

All completed recordings of plays and monologues of William Shakespeare. Everyman, a Morality Play The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni. The Holy War by John Bunyan. The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys.

A number of recordings of Shakespeare's Sonnets . Poetry of John Donne. Poetry of George Herbert. Poetry of John Milton.

Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock. This recording includes Part I, The Teaching of Nature-Study and Part II, Animal Life, Chapter I, Bird Study. Recording of Part 2 is in progress . Part II: Animal Study includes Chapter II: Fish Study, Chapter III: Batrachian Study, Chapter IV: Reptile Study, and Chapter V: Mammal Study. New! Great Astronomers by Robert S. Ball.

Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott. All recordings of works by Sir Walter Scott. Don Quixote by Cervantes. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter. The House of Arden by E. Nesbit. Harding's Luck by E. Nesbit. Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore. To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston. The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton. Saints and Heros vol 1 and vol 2 by George Hodges. Stories of Don Quixote by James Baldwin. All for Love; Or, The World Well Lost: A Tragedy by ohn Dryden.

Martin Luther: Excerpts from his account of the confrontation at the Diet of Worms (1521). Text at Kansas State University The Life of Sir Thomas More by William Roper. Book scan on Internet Archive. Life of Sir Francis Bacon by William Rawley. Book scan on Internet Archive (p.33 - 58) Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England by Sir Charles Firth. Book scan on Internet Archive. The Life of Christopher Columbus by Edward Everett Hale. Text on Project Gutenberg. The Discovery of Muscovy etc. by Richard Hakluyt. Text on Project Gutenberg. The Discovery of Guiana by Sir Walter Raleigh. Book scan on Internet Archive. English Literature for Boys and Girls by H. E. Marshall. Text on Project Gutenberg. WESTWARD HO! by Charles Kingsley Text on Project Gutenberg. Rural Hours by Susan Fenimore Cooper. Text at Penn Libraries. Nature writings of Edwin Way Teale at Internet Archive and Hathi Trust . Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden. Text on Project Gutenberg. The History of King Charles II of England by Jacob Abbott. Text on Project Gutenberg. A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales by Jonathan Nield. Text on Project Gutenberg.

Evidence That Demands a Verdict (1990) by Josh McDowell. The Case for Christ (1998) by Lee Strobel. The Mind of the Maker (1941) by Dorothy Sayers. Desiring God (2011) by John Piper. A History of the English Speaking Peoples (1956–1958) by Winston Churchill. A Man For All Seasons (1954) by Robert Bolt. The Voyage of the Armada The Spanish Story (1982) by David Howarth A Coffin for King Charles (1981) by C. V. Wedgwood. Galileo's Daughter (1999) by Dava Sobel. Christopher Columbus, Mariner (1955) by Samuel Eliot Morison. Kon Tiki (1960) by Thor Heyerdahl. Whatever Happened to Justice (1993) by Richard Maybury. I, Pencil (1958) a short essay by Leonard Read. Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves (1999) which is Spenser's Faerie Queene Book I updated and annotated by Roy Maynard. The Roar on the Other Side: A Guide for Student Poets by Suzanne Clark Our Mother Tongue: An Introductory Guide to English Grammar (2004) by Nancy Wilson Jensen's Grammar The Little, Brown Handbook (2004) by H. Ramsey Fowler and Jane E. Aaron. Writers INC : A Student Handbook for Writing and Learning Most of the recommended Science books. How To Read a Book (1972) by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren. The Story of Painting (1952) by H. W. Janson. Fearfully and Wonderfully Made (1983) by Paul Brand. The Wonderful O (1957) and The Thurber Carnival (1931) by James Thurber. The Space Trilogy (1938–1945) by C.S. Lewis. The Prydain Chronicles (1964–1968) tte Mason. This list continues on Recordings_of_Books_on_the_Ambleside_List_3 List compiled 14 April 2010, by RuthieG Updated 28 Jan 2019, by Dlolso21

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The Brendan Voyage

By shaun davey featuring liam o’flynn.

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• Introduction
• The Brendan Theme
• Water Under The Keel
• Journey To The Faroes
• The Cliffs Of Mykines
• Mykines Sound
• Journey To Iceland
• Newfoundland

Thirteen comments

A great recording from 1980, composed by Shaun Davey and performed by Liam O’Flynn and inspired by Tim Severin’s book.

The tune “The Gale” highlighted on the recording list is a different tune. If anyone knows how to break the link it would probably be a good idea. Thanks.

No! No! No! Stop changing the artist to Liam O‘Flynn. It is Shaun Davey’s album. Liam O’Flynn is just one of the many musicians on it, the featured one, yes but it is not his album!!

😏 “The Brendan Voyage by Shaun Davey” By (played by the uilleann piper) Liam O’Flynn

The composer is Shaun Davey, the artist, the musician is Liam O’Flynn, this is a site about music and Irish musicians. My way gave credit to both and gave Shaun Davey top listing with the title of his work. At least as I’d put it one would find both on a search an all the active playing of Liam as a fine exponent of the uilleann pipes would show up with a link to his name. Putting Shaun’s name in the header gives him top booking, or are you too thick and bull headed to see that? I’m not, so as you’ve been the first to add this here, however limited your view, so be it. But at least my submission struck a balance, while yours is limited and limiting…

There is no need to be nasty. I credited Shaun Davey with the album because it is his album. He is more than just the composer. He was the producer, arranger and, as far as I know, conductor. Yes, Liam was the main musician on it, or “soloist” as the album cover credits him but it wasn’t his album. It was an orchestral piece and should be considered as such. You will note I credited Liam O’Flynn in my very first comment when submitting the album.

Apologies for answering one rudeness with another, your email. I had not to my knowledge changed this recording previously. I was attempting to day to find a way to see this recording linked to the main artist, this being more of a website for musicians than composers, on the whole, but, ALWAYS believing in giving credit where it is due. So, mainly I was trying to see if there was a way for this to link under Liam’s name, as that would be the greater interest here on this site, the musician and what they do with the music, and here, more so than the composer. BUT, I valued the ‘Last.fm’ entry on Shaun Davey and didn’t like that it had been lost with the attempted change I’d made, listing Shaun Davey in the title and the main artist, uilleann piper Liam O‘Flynn after ’by‘. It didn’t work. I was about to write Jeremy for ideas on this when I got your blunt “Stop it!” ~ “stop doing this!” To my knowledge, and I might have forgotten attempting it previously, I hadn’t done it before. This was my first time trying to make that link the main ’musician‘ of the piece, this being mostly a website of musicians. Personally, though I dabble in the composing end of things, or at least it take hold of me from time to time, my greatest interest in elsewhere, with the music, the history, the ’musicians’ involvled in it all, including their recordings… As said, I won’t attempt the change again, but it would be good if both of the main people involved in this could be linked, especially so this recording showed up under the name of the main musician featured and known for this recording ~ Liam O’Flynn. I can but hope. Sorry to have ruffled your feathers, and apologies for losing my patience with your demands… “thick and bull headed” is something I too easily suffer from myself… I wouldn’t wish it on anyone else, either end of that.

I’ve solved the problem in one easy step by adding ‘featuring Liam O’Flynn’ to the album’s title. The two of you seem to have got your knickers in a twist about something less important than the number of angels that can dance on a pinhead.

Yup! Thanks Scutcher, you’ve made the link - but… I was trying different ways to do that and was being unsuccessful at it ~ preserving the ‘last.fm’ link to the composer Shaun Davey while still making the link between this recording and Liam. 😏 I hadn’t thought to join the two up after ‘by’, but, again we’ve lost that bit of ‘last.fm’ info on Shaun Davey. I have written our webmaster Jeremy for ideas, but you’ve managed what I was trying to do ~ except losing that link of information. Fingers crossed Jeremy can sort that little bit out. But yes also, less improtant than the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin, but I already know the answer to that. An angel told me… ~ ‘c’

Well I don’t know whether to reply to your long private message or the long post here. I don’t see much point in duplicating it so here it is then. Apologies for my brusqueness in my initial message to you. I had assumed, wrongly I guess, that it was you who had changed it previously. I had spotted in my news feed a couple of weeks ago that someone had edited the album. I had a look to see where she had edited it and it took me a while to spot the change in artist. I changed it back and sent a polite, querying message about why she had changed it. It turns out she had been trying to de-link a tune, couldn’t and changed it back. It was therefore someone else who changed the artist. When I saw you come along then and change it I put 2 and 2 together and, perhaps got 5. I was not meaning to be rude in my earlier message (and to be honest I don’t think I really was). Blunt perhaps but I was feeling a little exasperated. To the matter at hand, I have thought a lot about your reasoning behind the change. I hadn’t expected an album I posted here 8 years ago to be causing such a debate now. I honestly can’t agree with listing Liam O’Flynn as the artist however. He just isn’t. He is one of the musicians on the album. As I said earlier Shaun Davey is not just the composer. He is the producer, musical director, arranger and the person who hired all the musicians, giving Liam a job. It is not really fair to compare it to, say an album of Mike McGoldrick’s where he plays a tune composed by somebody else. In that instance Mike has put his own creative slant on it. He has arranged it himself and put a bit of himself in it. Or say an album of Pete Clark’s where he is playing all tunes written by Niel Gow. It is still Pete’s album. That is just not the case here. It is Shaun Davey’s album. He was the driving, creative force behind it. I understand your desire to want to have a way of linking all of Liam O’Flynn’s albums together but, to do that you would have to credit the Planxty albums to him too, for example, rather than to Planxty. I think what you are looking for is an additional feature on the site where you can add a list of musicians who feature on an album. Certainly it would be a worthwhile idea, if time-consuming. Changing the artist on here does not really address that though. Certainly Scutcher’s change does act as a compromise - although it does remove the biog info from Last.FM. I am not about to change it back now but it would maybe be an idea for Jeremy to provide a ruling on it. (Sorry Jeremy).

Shaun Davey featuring Liam O’Flynn

Okay, I’ve made a little change to the code that pulls in the information from Last.fm. If a recording features multiple artists (combined using “featuring”, “with”, “and”, etc.), then information for each artist will be displayed (assuming Last.fm has some information on that artist). I hereby declare this Gordian knot unravelled. 🙂

You are just too kind Jeremy! 🙂

“I hereby declare this Gordian knot unravelled.” ~ Jeremy

Nicely done, all round… And that new feature allowing the listing of multiple artists. It would still be good to figure out a way to handle ‘various artists’ in a way that a track or more from a known artists, or their involvement in the work of another ‘featured’ artist, would show up under their name along with their solo or ‘with friends’ efforts. Thanks for the patience, time and creative diplomacy… ~ ‘c’

Re: The Brendan Voyage

Track #8 was linking to a different tune by the same name, as was pointed out by 2 contributers. I’ve made an amendment to remove the anomaly.

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