from the tir na nog web site-- "Cyberspace is very, very old. The ancient Irish knew about it. They called it Tír na nÓg (The Land of Youth).

Irish legends and myths tell of a land where mortal time was suspended and everyone was young and beautiful. Sounds like cyberspace to me!

This is a virtual hangout, with an Irish Mythological and Cultural flavour. The Ancients might have described it as a 'thin place'- a place where the real world and the other world become close. The only physical connection with the real world is a telephone line from an old stone cottage in Cobh, on the shores of Cork Harbour in Ireland. "

and here is a little tid bit about st. brendan: "St. Brendan, who was born in Ireland about 489 and founded a monastery at Clonfert, Galway. According to legend, he was in his seventies when he and 17 other monks set out on a westward voyage in a curragh, a wood-framed boat covered in sewn ox-hides. The monks sailed about the North Atlantic for seven years..." a fellow named Tim Severin re-created St. Brendan's voyage about 20 years ago--in the style of Thor Heyerdahl's voyages on ancient-styled vessels....

and to bring this back to a musical note... there is a wonderful song chronicalling the Brendan Voyage--St Brendan's Fair Isle-it is on the data base on this web site... (don't know how to do blue clicky thingy)