A look back at one of the country's biggest gatherings of traditional sailing boats in Kinvara, Co. Galway on 5 August 1994.
The traditional Irish boats which had once carried turf from Connemara across Galway Bay retraced the journey.
Providing a century old tradition, they brought a token cargo of turf from Connemara to this once busy 19th century sea port.
This RTÉ News report by Jim Fahy includes interviews with Toddie Byrne, Mairtin O'Briain and Jean Kennedy Smith.
The Cruinniú na mBád Festival celebrates a time in Irish history when Galway hookers could be seen all around the coast of Galway and the Aran Islands.
14 hookers took part in the display and were met upon their arrival in Kinvara by US ambassador to Ireland, Mrs. Jean Kennedy Smith.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 5 August 1994. The reporter is Jim Fahy.
