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The Essay

A Circumnavigation of the British Isles in Five Traditional Boats

The Curach

Duration: 14 minutes

on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Keith Payne writes an essay on the curach, the Irish boat made of skin (now canvas) stretched over a frame of hazel rods lashed together, one of which he was involved in building. Show more

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