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Fishing and Hunting

Fishing net. National Folklife Collection

There are about 1,000 objects in this combined collection.

The fishing is representative of inshore and freshwater fishing and consists of a range of objects – fish spears, gaffs, nets, pots, strokehauls, weights lines and hooks.

The objects to do with hunting are mainly for trapping and snaring birds and small animals as well as a small number of firearms.

Further Reading

Séamas Mac An Iomaire, Cladaí Chonamara, An Gúm, Dublin 1985. Trans by P. de Bhaldraithe as The Shores of Connemara , Kinvara 2000.

C. Mac Carthaigh, ‘An tSaighneoireacht in Iarthar Chiarraí,’ in An Fharraige, Iris na hOidhreachta 5, An Daingean 1993.

Eiblhlín Ní Mhurchú – ‘An tIascach a bhí’ – Céad Bliain , Mícheál Ó Cíosáin (eag), Baile an Fhirtéaraigh 1973, 194-212.

Críostóir Mac Carthaigh – Shark Hunting in Ireland, Maritime Life and Traditions, No 13, 2-15.’

Anne O’Dowd, ‘Resources of Life: Aspects of Working and Fishing on the Aran Islands in Book of Aran (194-220), ed Anne Korff et al, Kinvara.


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