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"What if you helped make a boat the way they did 200 years ago?"
There is something quietly brilliant about bending laths of ash by hand and stretching canvas over a frame the same way people did on the Connemara coast two centuries ago. You will get tar on your fingers, argue gently with a craftsperson about tension, and then watch an actual boat take shape because of your own effort. It teaches patience in a way no classroom ever quite manages, and the moment you see your currach float on a grey Atlantic inlet, you will feel unreasonably proud of yourself.
Tadhg (25), Nenagh — warehouse supervisor at a builders' providers, does a bit of hurling when the knees let him
I'd no real plan beyond seeing if I could do it without making a complete fool of myself.
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