Lightenings viii by Seamus Heaney, animated by Eoghan Kidney

Heaney's poem retells an entry from the old Irish annals: monks at prayer at Clonmacnoise see a ship appear in the air above them, its anchor caught on their altar rails. Eoghan Kidney made this short animation for an RTÉ program celebrating Heaney in 2009, and it treats the miracle as matter-of-factly as the poem does. At about two minutes it is one of the shortest films here, and one of the best introductions to Heaney's later, airier poems from Seeing Things. The upload is the animator's own.