COMMUNITY.

The work undertaken by the Ilen School is the expression in our own time of Limerick’s and Ireland’s impressive remnants of boat building and boat handling traditions. We hope to give them contemporary forms that will enable them to live on.

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Ilen documentary film wins award.

The Ilen is a short film on the joy of working with wood, and documents the words and skills of Ireland’s few remaining traditional shipwrights, currently occupied in the rebuilding this islands sole surviving sail trading ketch. The awarded comes with a prize of $10,000 from the World Wood Day 2015 through their ‘Wood & Humanity’ film competition. In the film, directed by Mia Mullarkey of Ishka Films, the 1926 trading ketch is featured as she draws near to a new operational life upon the sea.

This poignant but hopeful short documentary was made in conjunction with the Ilen School and Network for Wooden Boat Building in Hegarty’s Boat Yard, west Cork and the Ilen School, Limerick City.

From director Mia Mullarkey of Ishka Films

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EDUCATION.

Ilen Project’s 2019 Community and Schools Educational Programme, crossing generations and seas – an intergenerational and international educational and outdoor adventure programme which is unfolding in schools, tangibly through boat building workshops, community days, river, sea and ocean voyaging.

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Ilen documentary film wins award.

The Ilen is a short film on the joy of working with wood, and documents the words and skills of Ireland’s few remaining traditional shipwrights, currently occupied in the rebuilding this islands sole surviving sail trading ketch. The awarded comes with a prize of $10,000 from the World Wood Day 2015 through their ‘Wood & Humanity’ film competition. In the film, directed by Mia Mullarkey of Ishka Films, the 1926 trading ketch is featured as she draws near to a new operational life upon the sea.

This poignant but hopeful short documentary was made in conjunction with the Ilen School and Network for Wooden Boat Building in Hegarty’s Boat Yard, west Cork and the Ilen School, Limerick City.

From director Mia Mullarkey of Ishka Films

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Limerick to London.

Limerick to London April 2022 – the last timber-built, sail trading ship in Ireland, the Ilen, will set off from the river port of Limerick, in Ireland, bound for the great river city of London, in England.

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Ilen documentary film wins award.

The Ilen is a short film on the joy of working with wood, and documents the words and skills of Ireland’s few remaining traditional shipwrights, currently occupied in the rebuilding this islands sole surviving sail trading ketch. The awarded comes with a prize of $10,000 from the World Wood Day 2015 through their ‘Wood & Humanity’ film competition. In the film, directed by Mia Mullarkey of Ishka Films, the 1926 trading ketch is featured as she draws near to a new operational life upon the sea.

This poignant but hopeful short documentary was made in conjunction with the Ilen School and Network for Wooden Boat Building in Hegarty’s Boat Yard, west Cork and the Ilen School, Limerick City.

From director Mia Mullarkey of Ishka Films

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BOAT BUILDING.

The work undertaken by the Ilen School is the expression in our own time of Limerick’s and Ireland’s impressive remnants of boat building and boat handling traditions. We hope to give them contemporary forms that will enable them to live on.

Click for more info

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Ilen documentary film wins award.

The Ilen is a short film on the joy of working with wood, and documents the words and skills of Ireland’s few remaining traditional shipwrights, currently occupied in the rebuilding this islands sole surviving sail trading ketch. The awarded comes with a prize of $10,000 from the World Wood Day 2015 through their ‘Wood & Humanity’ film competition. In the film, directed by Mia Mullarkey of Ishka Films, the 1926 trading ketch is featured as she draws near to a new operational life upon the sea.

This poignant but hopeful short documentary was made in conjunction with the Ilen School and Network for Wooden Boat Building in Hegarty’s Boat Yard, west Cork and the Ilen School, Limerick City.

From director Mia Mullarkey of Ishka Films

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School & Network for Wooden Boat Building

The Ilen School facilitates the direct experience of hands on work. Applied to wood and traditional boatbuilding crafts in particular, this can result in beautiful community craft.

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Re-Building The Ilen

The eponymous sailing ketch Ilen 1926, our flagship, the last of Ireland’s traditional wooden sailing ships has been given a new breath of life…

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Limerick to London 2022

Limerick to London April 2022 – the last timber-built, sail trading ship in Ireland, the Ilen, will set off from the river port of Limerick, in Ireland, bound for the great river city of London, in England.

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2022 Educational Programme

Kingship is an educational, art, and cultural programme to celebrate Limerick’s mediaeval and contemporary English Town.

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Ilen. is a not for profit organisation

with charitable status. Its main purpose is education in ways of the sea. Registered Number 20042868

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24th Nov 2020, Heritage Council – Community Heritage Grant Scheme 2020

We were very grateful to receive a grant from the Heritage Council to conserve and refurbish Ilen’s accommodation areas in October/November 2020. Though relaunched in 2018, the memory of which has not dimmed, the Ilen has had a very active operational life. What between two Atlantic crossings, numerous coastal and day trips, visitor open days, … Continue reading Heritage Council – Community Heritage Grant Scheme 2020