Composition

Van Zandt, Jack :

Ceól na hÉireann III. St. Brendan’s Hornpipe

(2019) 5 min.

viola, cello

Notes

St. Brendan “the Navigator” (or “the Voyager”) was a 6th Century Irish priest from what is known today as Tralee, County Kerry. According to legend, he sailed in a traditional currach boat west from Ireland in search of Tír na nÓg (or Paradise) and “discovered” North America nearly 1,000 years before Columbus.