From Ireland in his little coracle the missionary-saint, Columba, sailed to the isle of lona in the Inner Hebrides, off Scotland’s west coast. There, in 563 A.D., on lona’s misty, rainy four square ...
"A Bygone Craft" is available to stream for free on the Irish Film Institute's IFI Archive Player. This 1931 newsreel depicts Irish men making a coracle, a hide-covered boat used for salmon fishing.