A History of Ireland in 100 Objects: When people first came to Ireland, about 9,000 years ago, it was almost certainly in skin-covered boats. There are images of such coracles (or curachs, as they ...

"A Bygone Craft" is available to stream for free on the Irish Film Institute's IFI Archive Player. This 1931 newsreel depicts Irish men making a coracle, a hide-covered boat used for salmon fishing.

In the 1930s this paper also ran an occasional Forgotten Days where such pictures appeared like early members of the Drogheda Brass and Reed Band, Drogheda from old photographs, sailing ships on the ...

IN this volume, Mr. Hornell reprints a series of articles which appeared originally in The Mariner's Mirror, the official publication of the Society for Nautical Research. It is, he points out, the ...