The Camino Voyage

Glen Hansard

On the feast day of the Irish Saint Colm Cille in 2012 the Poet Danny Sheehy and his crew delivered the gift of an Irish language Bible to the Saint's Abbey on the legendary island of Iona in Scotland.They rowed the 800km journey from West Kerry in in a Naomhóg (a traditional West Kerry rowing curragh/boat) following the coastal routes of their ancestors.This was one of many intrepid sea journeys for the crew and in 2014 they set their sights on an even more audacious voyage.For hundreds of years people sailed from Ireland to A Coruña in Northern Spain and walked the camino to Santiago de Compostela from there. This inspiring crew began their own version of this historical voyage in the Naomhóg in 2014.Pulling into coastal towns and villages en route, camping and cooking as they went, this eclectic crew forged many new friendships; surprising those they met with a boat that seems to come straight out of the middle ages.Every community that they have connected with en route opened their doors - and their hearts - to this crew, and the men have in exchange, inspired them with their courage, endurance, storytelling, music, poetry and song in a coming together of people in the most fundamental and ancient of ways.This intimate documentary charts the trials and tribulations of a voyage that in the words of Danny Sheehy, took "sweat, blood and blisters to complete while deepening and renewing friendships, creativity and spirituality in the process".With Breanndán Ó Beaglaoich, Glen Hansard, Liam Holden, Brendan-Pháid Ó Muircheartaigh and Writer and Poet Domhnall Mac Síthigh (1951-2017).