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Bernd Unstaedt's Currach Collection

Here you can find a collection of observations by a contributor about the currach - a traditional boat used extensively along the West coast of Ireland.

  • Anatomy of shoulder splices of Irish currachs

    Anatomy of shoulder splices of Irish currachs

  • Brandon Regatta, 1993

    Brandon Regatta, 1993

  • Currach as shop decoration (1)

    Currach as shop decoration (1)

  • Currach as shop decoration (2)

    Currach as shop decoration (2)

  • Currach as work of art (1)

    Currach as work of art (1)

  • Currach as work of art (2)

    Currach as work of art (2)

  • Currach as work of art (3)

    Currach as work of art (3)

  • Currach as work of art (4)

    Currach as work of art (4)

  • Currach as work of art (5)

    Currach as work of art (5)

  • Currachs as pub decoration (1)

    Currachs as pub decoration (1)

  • Currachs as pub decoration (2)

    Currachs as pub decoration (2)

  • Currachs at Ballymore, 1989

    Currachs at Ballymore, 1989

  • Currachs at Brandon Creek

    Currachs at Brandon Creek

  • Currachs at Bunbeg, Donegal 1988

    Currachs at Bunbeg, Donegal 1988

  • Currachs at Dunquin pier

    Currachs at Dunquin pier

  • Dingle racing currachs

    Dingle racing currachs

  • Dooneen Pier 2018

    Dooneen Pier 2018

  • Dooneen Pier 2022

    Dooneen Pier 2022

  • Fibreglass currachs in the Dingle Peninsula

    Fibreglass currachs in the Dingle Peninsula

  • Joan Maguire - currach racer and regatta organizer

    Joan Maguire - currach racer and regatta organizer

  • Racing currach model from Dingle

    Racing currach model from Dingle

  • Rare Currachs

    Rare Currachs

  • Surviving Currachs (1)

    Surviving Currachs (1)

  • Surviving Currachs (2)

    Surviving Currachs (2)

A miscellany of topics
  • Ireland’s Crannóga
  • Croagh Patrick Heritage Trail Walking Festival 2023
  • Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Summer School
  • The Bothy Band 1975
  • Mayo’s Disused Railway Stations
  • Jerry Martin, fiddle builder
  • Folk medicine of County Mayo - can you help?
  • Brigid’s Legacy
  • Ireland’s Ogham Alphabet / Stones etc
  • Milwaukee Irish Fest, If I Could - a poem by Thomas Seán Purdy
  • Westport Military Barracks etc
  • Croagh Patrick Excavations
  • Michael Viney: Mayo's wild terrain was once the largest farm in Ireland
  • The Great Hunger
  • Churching Lament: a poem by Thomas Seán Purdy
  • Mayo’s Methodist Chapels
  • Achill Geology & Glaciation
  • The GSR Leyland Badger Bus to Achill ca. 1932
  • Mayo’s Round Towers
  • Mayo Bridges
  • Irish Workhouse Centre: Call for donations
  • Martello Towers in Ireland
  • The Galway Buzz - Buzz na Gaillimhe
  • Connaught’s Coronation Stone
  • Various Viaducts
  • Dublin Viaducts
  • Shaw's Grocery Book, Baltinglass, Co Wicklow
  • Ireland’s Megalithic Monuments
  • Tim Severn’s unscheduled visit to Ballywhoriskey Pier on the Fanad Peninsula
  • My Grandmother’s Prayer Book
  • A brief history of the Kelp industry in Fanad
  • Chimneys
  • Ballygill Bridge, scene of the last known fatal duel in Ireland
  • My Memories of Easter Week in Dublin, 1916 by Robert William Hill Shaw
  • The History of the Sligo/Tuam Chair, with examples from the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life
  • 1922 letter: a contemporaneous account of events from the time of the great explosion at the Four Courts.
  • Fate of the First Dail
  • Tír Sáile Sculptural Trail
  • Bullaun Stones
  • The Boheh Stone
  • Local History & Heritage Course 2020-2021: Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo
  • Benchmarks
  • Changing Tracks
  • iCAN features in Connect: Newsletter of the accrediting bodies for Irish & Scottish Genealogists
  • Irish Orthography
  • Mount Callan's Skydancer
  • Ireland’s Round Towers
  • Old Irish Script
  • Book of Kells
  • Charles Bianconi's Coaches
  • The Cathach
  • Battle Dress - A Study of the Changing Fashions of Irish Fighting Men
  • Irish Musical Instruments
  • Irish Bards
  • Song in the Irish Language / Traditional Dance Music
  • No Irish Need Apply
  • Abbeys have abbots:
  • Before I Forget...
  • Bird Trap
  • Cillini
  • Digging for Gold in Laois
  • DONEGAL - BY DESIGN
  • Following The Lady Gregory Trail
  • Irish Hedgerows
  • Land & Language Reform In The Irish Free State
  • Nollaig na mBan
  • Nostalgia, Memory and Debris
  • Notes on Brickmaking
  • Our Dry Stone Heritage
  • Poaching Bye-Law Notice
  • Restored Thatched Cottage near Killavalley, Westport
  • Rural Childhood in the 1950s
  • Rural Electrification
  • Settlement
  • Slater's Knife
  • Some Headstones with symbols of Death and Resurrection
  • Some Thoughts on Wrought
  • St. Bridget's Day in Ireland
  • Swift Conservation Project
  • Tally Stick
  • The Cross of Cong
  • The Mysterious Legends
  • The Sídhe - belief & customs in Co. Laois
  • The Thatched Toyota
  • The Wren Boys
  • Turloughs, Floods and Wells
  • Bernd Unstaedt's Currach Collection
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