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A Glengad, County Donegal, drontheim in full sail at Greencastle regata, 18 August 1951 The inner foresail is strapped to the bowsprit, and the Saint Patrick is getting ready to fly Punt motoring out of Machaire Uí Rabhartaigh (Magheraroarty), 2007 Pat Doran on a soft autumn morning pulling his 18' Gandelow off Tervoe on the Shannon Estuary, one mile west of Liemerick City - October 2007 Cooking and baking was done in a bastible pot (centre of photograph) set on an open fire contained in a second bastible, known as teh 'fire-pot'. Straw, or sometimes heath or hay, was used for a bed. This photograph from the Father Browne collection was taken in Cork Harbour in 1928 Skiff competing at the 2006 Ringsend Regatta in the heart of the busy port of Dublin Claidbh Ó Gibne navigating a section of weir and millrace at Oldsbridge Andy McGonagle paddling in from Uaigh, 2004 Shark fishermen at work in 1984, the last year of the fishery. The shark was towed by curach to a waiting motorboat lying off Keem bay, and teh carcass taken from there to an oil processing plant at Purteen The de Bhailís brothers of An Ceathrú Rua fishing lobster, carrying auxiliary sail Ruaidhrí Ó Coincheannain in the early stages of applying a fibreglass cover to a new curach at his workshop on Inis Meáin Snap-net fisherman on the River Suir. In tune with their environment, the cot fishermen on the great rivers of the southeast have retained into the modern era centuries-old fishing techniques and boat types The Ilen, built in 1926 at Baltimore Fisheries School, West Cork, and seen here in 1948 anchored off Georgia Island, one of the Falkland Islands lying south of Speedwell Island and south-west of East Falkland, where it remained in use until 1998 when it was repatriated

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