The Wooden Currach 2
with Cian De Buitléar
ISBN 0-9549023-1-9
Published 3rd July 2005
Price: €26.50 p & p included
Complete Set: Price; €77.00 p&p included

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Michael Mhairtín Jimmí Mac Donnacha

Any day of the year, if you visit the western shores of Ireland, you will see fishermen out at sea hauling nets or pulling up pots. Their engines perch snugly on the transom of their trusted wooden currach. Whether they are rowed majestically or motoring under outboard, the wooden currach has a myriad of uses. She pulls tonnes of seaweed after it is cut, tows cattle and horses astern, ferries whole families to their destinations. To many men of the west, their livelihood depends on her versatility, strength and dependability. The wooden currach is as much in demand today as she was generations ago.

Now for the first time this DVD and handbook gives you a unique insight into the craft of wooden currach-making. Experience the sheer technical talent and natural flair of Michael Mhairtín Jimmí in the art of framing, chamfering, the skill of the spokeshave and exacting measurements that have evolved and been handed down over the generations of boatbuilders in Connemara.

Construction drawings are included.

DVD has choice of both Irish and English voiceover.

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Gaeilge

An Churach Adhmaid 2
Le Cian De Buitléar
ISBN 0-9549023-1-9
Dáta Foilsithe 3ú Iuil, 2005
Praghas Miondíolta €26.50 móide p&p
Iomlán don trí leabhar, €77.00 móide p&p

Michael Mhairtín Jimmí Mac Donnacha

Má thugann tú cuairt ar chósta thiar na hÉireann, lá ar bith sa mbliain, feicfidh tú iascairí amuigh ar an bhfarraige ag obair le eangaigh nó le potaí gliomach. Bíonn na hinnill feistithe go néata ar chúl a gcurach adhmaid. Más ag iomramh nó ag taisteal le hinneall, is iomaí úsáid a bhaintear as churach adhmaid. Tarraingíonn an churach climíní feamainne tar éis a mbainte. Úsáidtear í le beithigh agus capaill a tharraingt agus úsáidtear í le daoine a iompar. Braitheann go leor fear san iarthar fós ar an gcurach, daoine a bhfuil muinín acu as a láidreacht agus a so-lúbthacht dá slí-bheatha.
Tá an oiread tóra ar an gcurach adhmaid inniu agus a bhíodh na glúnta ó shin.

Don chéad uair, tugann an DVD agus leabhrán seo léargas sainiúil dúinn ar cheird na bhfear a dhéanann na curachaí. Feiceann muid na buanna teicniúla agus an cumas nádúrtha atá ag Michael Mháirtín Jimmí agus é ag cur fiarfhaobhar leis an spócphlána ar na múnlaí.Tá sé ag oibriú na dtomhaiseanna cruinne atá tagtha chun cinn agus tugtha ar lámh ó ghlúin go glúin i measc saortha Chonamara.

Tá léaráidí tógála san áireamh.

Tá rogha de thráchtaireacht Ghaeilge nó Béarla leis an DVD.