Learn how to build a coracle, an ancient boat design made of willow branches. Learn how to build and waterproof a coracle boat. Coracles have been made by people of many cultures for thousands of ...

An attempt is being made to keep the art of coracle-making alive through a two-day workshop. Organiser Simon Rouse, from Shrewsbury, Shropshire said he felt the skills involved have been slowly ...

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 ...

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 ...

The coracle is one of the simplest and strangest-looking boats ever designed for use on our rivers. It has been used by hunter gatherers for many centuries and is thought to date back to pre-Roman ...

"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 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 ...