By Abdon Moriarty Pallasch
The idea that Irish monks in an ox-hide boat might have beaten the Conquistadors and the Vikings to America was largely relegated to Irish folklore before 1976.
That year, British navigation scholar Tim Severin set off from Ireland in an ox-hide leather "currach" to prove that St. Brendan the Navigator and his followers could indeed have sailed to … [Read more...] about Goodbye Columbus
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