“We just got a notion… we took three years, and we rowed from Dublin from Wexford, to Wales, to Britany… we did the Bay of Biscay… went as far as Corona… and then went by sea to Santiago-Componstela (Spain).” –Breanndon
“And, what was it like, now… rowing in the high seas… a man-made boat?” –Interviewer Maire Moriarty
“…she kind of stuck to the skin of the water… and she was one with the sea… It was, just pure magic… Being in the boat, which was built by two members of the crew, designed a couple thousand years ago… You come ashore in a yacht, and just, nobody notices you; but you come ashore in a (Currach) and it has a humanity about it… just, people just stopped and just looked at it as if we were carrying… a whale, or something… it kind of speaks to you… It had personality, that we didn’t design… You’re out there, humbly, just dealing with the sea, and nothing between you and the sea except a small bit of canvas, painted with tar… You come ashore at night, and you hear the sea every night, and you hear it in the morning; you go to bed with the sound of the waves and the sound of the birds, and you’re waking in it the following morning… It’s taken me this long, six or seven weeks, to come really ashore.” –Breanndon
–Breanndon O’Beaglaoich (“Brandon O’Beagley”) of Brandon Creek, on rowing in a currach, from Ireland all the way down the Camino