The Ship from the Sky

As strange as it is imagine, there are infinite worlds out there in the universe, far beyond our sight. But, if the stories are to be believed, a group of early Irish people came closer than most to contact with the world above our world, and the strange people who inhabited it.

 

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Sources and Further Reading

• “Aerial Ships and Underwater Monasteries: The Evolution of a Monastic Marvel” - John Carey
• “Voyagers in the Vault of Heaven: The Phenomenon of Ships in the Sky in Medieval Ireland and Beyond” - Michael McCaughan
• “Lightnings VIII” – Seamus Heaney
• Curiosities of Indo-European tradition and folk-lore – Walter Keating Kelly
• On Hail and Thunder - Agobard of Lyons
• “From flying boats to secret Soviet weapons to alien visitors – a brief cultural history of UFOs” – theconversation.com
• “Sometimes a flying boat is just a flying boat: Not everything has to be a UFO” – esoterx.com
• Tailtenn Games
• “On the Identification of the Ancient Cemetery at Loughcrew, Co. Meath” - Eugene Alfred Conwell
• The Aonac Tailteann and the Tailteann Games – T. H. Nally

 

Music

• The Butterfly - Sláinte
• Periwinkle Waters – Christian Andersen
• Free Form – Amaranth Cove
• Sea of Space – Yi Nantiro