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The "Irish Life of Brendan" from  Book of Lismore,
With Literal Translation on Opposite Pages       pages 1-31
The birth and parentage of  St. Brendan;   his baptism  by
Bishop Erc: his nurture for five years by St. Ita ; his education and religious training by St. Erc ; miracles then wrought by him ; his visit to the saints of Erin, "to learn the rules and practices of a holy life”;  he converts St. Colman MacLenin, Patron of Cloyne; his visit to St. Jarlath, Patron of Tuam, and his first missionary labours in Connaught"; the Rule of the religious life " received by him from an angel ; his return to St. Erc, for priestly ordination ; his admission to monastic profession : his foundation of monasteries in his native district ; his spiritual retreats on Brendan-hill; his visions of the "Land of Promise" therefrom; he resolves to sail on the ocean in quest of it; he prepares large vessels for the voyage, which he commences with a crew of chosen monks ; the celebration of Easter on the back of the great sea-whale ; the perils of the ocean ; the tempests allayed by the prayers of  the saint.

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Notes on Irish Life       ....    Pages 32-103
Pedigree of St. Brendan; Aongus MacNadhfraich, King of Munster at the saint's birth; his saintly brothers, Domaingin, Faitleac, and Faolan; his sister the holy virgin, Bryg; Bishop Erc. first bishop in Kerry—some account of him and of his earliest churches; Fenit, within which lay "the precise place" of St. Brendan's birth : Tobar na molt (Wethers' Well), the fountain of his baptism; St. Ita, the foster-mother of the saint.—the foundation of her convent of Killeedy—her visit to the monastery of Ardfert; Uaimh Brenain (the cave of Brendan's penance), now O'Brennan, early nunnery there; St. Finan Cam, one of the first disciples of St. Brendan—his residence near Lochlein, and probable foundation of Inisfallen and Aghadoe ; the story of the conversion of St. Colman of Cloyne from the Book of Munster; the religious Rule dictated by an angel on the Plain of Aei (Co. Roscommon); the various motives assigned for the great voyage; Brendan-hill—legend of St. Brendan's residence near it— his religious foundations there—pilgrimages thereto—the " Pathway of the Saints"—the oratories and churches on the summit ; the great voyage—the number of the crew in each vessel—the visit to St. Enda of Arann; the story of the great sea-whale—the history and probable genesis of the legend ; the prayer of St. Brendan—the Irish version—the Latin version (Oratio Sti. Brendani) famous in the middle ages—the "Prayer of St. Brendan," from Poem by D. F. M'Carthy.
The Voyage of St. Brendan    .	.	. Pages 104-178
A brief but accurate outline of Irish version; the Latin version (Navigatio Brendani) in a close and complete English translation—in fourteen Chapters :—
I. St. Brendan, stimulated by the example of St. Barinthus to seek the Land of Promise; 
II. St. Brendan and his companions set sail into the ocean; 
III. Their first discovery of land; 
IV. They visit Sheep-island, and celebrate the Easter festival ; V. The Paradise of birds; 
VI. The Island of St. Ailbe ; 
VII. They visit other islands ; 
VIII. They are miraculously saved from destruction : 
IX. The three choirs of saints ; 
X. Some wonders of the ocean ; 
XI. A volcanic island ; 
XII. Judas Iscariot—Mathew Arnold's Poem; 
XIII. The rocky island of the hermit, St. Paul ; 
XIV. The Paradise of Delights—" St, Brendan's Return,'' by D. F. M'Carthy.

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The Latin Life of St. Brendan	.	.    pages 179-269
Introduction ; St. Brendan, after his voyages, founds monasteries in his native district ; his foundations at Inisdadroman in   the  Shannon—at   Doora  and  elsewhere in  Clare—his relations   with   St.   Facthna   (Fachanan)   of   Ross—with St, Senan of Iniscathy—with St. Rudhan of Lorrha (North Tipperary), near which he founded a monastery at Tulach-Brenain ; his miraculous deliverance of  a  town in   Kerry from   a   pest   of   insects;   his   pilgrimage  to   Britain—his missionary labours in Cymric Britain (Wales)—in Armoric Britain   (Brittany), and in the Orkneys and  the Isles  of North Britain; he visits St. Gildas the Wise in Brittany; some  account  of  that illustrious saint and  of his  contemporary,   St.  Cadoc  of Lancarvan, where St.  Brendan resided for some years, and where he educated his famous disciple, St. Machutus or Malo; the Breton legend of the voyage of St. Malo; St. Brendan commends the patronage of  St. Brigid—his friendly relations with  that saint ; his return to Ireland after about ten years' absence in Britain, accompanied  by  many  disciples  and  friends  among   the Britons;   his second missionary  visit to  Connaught—the numerous Kerry migrations thither about the same time; his brother, St. Faitleac, accompanies him—whom he leaves in   charge   of   his  earliest   foundation   in   Connaught   at Cluantuascairt (Co. Roscommon); he founds a monastery at Inis –meic-Ichuind (luisquin) in Lough Corrib—grant of the island to him by King   Aedh  MacEochaidh;   Bishop Moennu, his associate at Inisquin and afterwards bishop-abbot of Clonfert; miracles wrought by  St. Brendan at Inuisquin; he founds his great church and school at Clonfert in the 77th year of his age; his friendly relations with his foster-mother, St. Ita, maintained.—their spiritual colluquys ; the   holy   virgin,  St.   Chiar,   of  Muscraidhe-Tire   (North Tipperary)  performs  a  great  miracle  at  the request  of St.   Brendan;   he   visits  the  saints   of  Meath—his  early relations with St. Finnian of Clonard, the "Tutor of the Saints  of Erin;''  he visits  the  Ard-Righ  Diarmait  Mac Cearbhail  at   Tara;   his   kindly  reception   by   the  King; Diarmait's  friendly  relations  with  many  of the principal saints of his time—his later conflicts with some of them— Solemn excommunication of the King and of   Tara, after which " no king or queen ever again  reigned at  Tara."— St. Brendan, in some of his religious instructions, refers to incidents of his voyages on the ocean; he saves the province of Connaught from an invasion by Munstermen; he founds a convent for nuns at Eanachduin (Annaghdown) probably before   his foundation at  Clonfert, and places  his sister, St. Bryg, to govern it, under his guidance; he seeks out

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"deserts in the sea" on Inisgluair, off the coast of Mayo, and on Inisnee, off Connemara, where he builds oratories, the ruins of which yet remain; he trains to holiness at Inisquin his disciple, St. Meldan, who succeeded him in the abbacy there ; the birth of St. Fursey, son of Fintan and Gelgeis, in the hospice on the island; his early nurture and education at the monastery by his relative, St. Brendan ; the ministrations of St. Brendan at Clonfert—his public preaching there, and his Masses on the Sundays to the latest years of his life; his intimate relations with St. Canice of Kilkenny; his visit to St. Columba, in the company of St. Canice and other eminent saints ; his wonderful vision on the occasion ; his visitations of the scenes of his early missions in North Britain; his tours of visitation to his religious foundations in Munister and West Kerry at a late period of his life; he retires to his sister's convent at Eannachduin to make immediate preparation for his death; He gives minute instructions for the safe removal of his remains for burial to Clonfert; his holy death on Sunday, May I6th ; his solemn obsequies at the church of Clonfert; the widespread devotion to him after his death— the many thousand spiritual children who revere his memory and confide in his intercession.
Legends of St. Brendan, with Notes   .	.    Pages 270-305
I. St. Brendan, the Student Harper, and the Angel. 
11. The Three Young Clerics who went on a pilgrimage.
III.	The Holy Well of Brendan's anointing.
IV.	The Island of St. Brendan.
V. Hy-Brasail, the Isle of the Blest.
APPENDIX  ...... Pages 355-400
Early English Metrical Life of St. Brendan, and Early English Prose Life of St. Brendan, with Preface and Notes, by Mr. Thomas Wright, F.S.A.