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The book opens with Mr. Lloyd, an English artist, heading out to sea in a fragile hand-rowed currach.

Native islanders played a part in his sometimes anachronistic setups: A shark-harpooning expedition on a currach, for example, used long-abandoned techniques.

Thirteen rowers left the island in a 40-foot currach, a traditional canvas boat, following the journey made by Colmcille and his followers almost 1,400 years ago.

It is strange why it is called a curragh—more correctly, currach—for the word means a marsh, a place that stirs when trodden on.

However, it was called Currach Life from very early times, that is the marsh or swamp of the Liffy.