{"id":495,"date":"2014-03-23T16:49:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T21:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoveriesoftheamericas.org\/?page_id=495"},"modified":"2021-02-22T16:19:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T16:19:53","slug":"currachs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/medieval-storytelling\/currachs\/","title":{"rendered":"Currachs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 355px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn2-b.examiner.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/image_content_width\/hash\/73\/89\/738976838b3d20891df00c5caf997f87.jpg?itok=-iOovIZj\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"docs-internal-guid-8040557d-0163-c20f-7b6d-1cab4270b1df\" title=\"Saint Brendan\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/FOc-Tj87e7jLI4oGeCiMHb6pEcQWkzEXMCQTJNUthy78yw84pyxyZupCYDQApWupS9bZBTWzV0MiJqjApif7bwUnZcb0u8YmljWgraWQPkTPBbBoW9MmBqz_YiW4fw\" width=\"355\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Brendan and the pilgrims<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: center\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According to the legend &#8220;the Voyage of St.Brendan the Navigator&#8221;\u00a0 St. Brendan sailed off with 60 pilgrims in order to find the &#8220;Isles of the Blessed&#8221;. This picture depicts Brendan of Clonfort and the pilgrims looking for the promised land.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 293px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s821.photobucket.com\/user\/Ojibwa\/media\/Ireland\/Saint%20Brendan\/DSCN1944diagram.jpg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"docs-internal-guid-8040557d-016c-6fbe-37fc-98b8ed9437e3\" title=\"Currach Diagram\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/nFQXjb1xU55vxCG_QAODPhnpY8ioE7qYoGI507_dPtBqK8hCGVuV9EY26U_vrHeSU3GbGOT2WNIJGd9BdI9zU5fCPe-nedaUP_mhztv0M--SOCtg7stDh2xqc1d9xA\" width=\"293\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Currach Diagram, 1944<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This is a detailed diagram of a currach. This diagram was drawn in 1944 and is a precise copy of what Brendan&#8217;s currach looked like when he sailed to the New World.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oodegr.com\/english\/biographies\/arxaioi\/Brendan_navigator.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" id=\"docs-internal-guid-8040557d-0172-0b23-58af-76467e196a1f\" title=\"Brendan\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/YMg2EygpweZhtn-f3R6LtGifyGKso2ML6hc3B3hhlPyok6FsTDJcQgM8a82eJOaO3elGZ2EiFoeT-wgkBHuiosbX9JGmoPyFxlyYsUEyxKF1QJGYYNrNisG8DsZ0GA\" width=\"223\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This is a stamp, depicting Brendan&#8217;s journey to the new world. As it was inferred from the legend, Brendan has passed by some sea creatures, flaming rocks and whales. Flaming rock, otherwise known as a volcano is depicted on this stamp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"parent":745,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/495\/revisions\/772"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}