Booklet, Limerick printed. "1926/ Ilen/ An Irish maritime Restoration Project" 1998. Researched and compiled by Gary MacMahon, Design and production sponsored by Copper Reed Studio, Limerick, Text by W.M. Nixon. 12pp plus card cover; stapled twice at centre-fold. Chapter headings, "Conor O'Brien/ 1880-1952/ Sailor, Mountaineer, Patriot, Architect, Author", "1914/ The Gun Runner/ Asgard and Kelpie Sail in Company", 1923-25/ Sailing Pioneer/ Around the World Cruise in Saoirse", "1926-27/ The Happy Voyage/ Building of Ilen and Delivery to the Falklands" and "1997-1998/ The Ilen's Return/ The Hunt Museum, Limerick, Acquire Ilen". Photo of sailboat on front cover, copy of print of Customs House and Hunt Logo on reverse. Photos; Conor O'Brien and Kitty Clausen aboard Saoirse; William Smith O'Brien; Dermod O'Brien RHA; Cahermoyle House; Conor aboard Kelpie; Sewing a sail; Jack Finucane on Kelpie; Irish Volunteers line up to take rifles away from the Asgard, July 1914; Conor aboard Kelpie; Mary Spring Rice and Erskine Childers supervise the unloading; Volunteers return to Dublin; Mrs Erskine Childers and Mary Spring Rice on board th Asgard; Conor sculling the engineless Saoirse; Conor aboard Saoirse with Tongan mate Kioa; Saoirse leaving Dun Laoghaire June 20th 1923; Conor taking sun in Pernambuco; In Portuguese Trades; Stunsail weather; Tom Moynihan and his men building the Ilen, Baltimore; Ilen being launched; Ilen sailing across Baltimore harbour at start of voyage; Ilen with Royal Irish Yacht Club insignia on transom; Ilen at Ilfracombe; Dublin stevedores unloading Ilen; Dr. Ed Walsh and John Hunt aboard Ilen; Liam McGonagle congratulates Paddy Barry on successful discharging of the Ilen; Murrough O'Brien, Donal Lynch, Liam McGonagle, gary MacMahon and Eugene Pratt; Liam Canavan and Louis Purtill fire-up Ilens old engine; Martin O Neil guides Ilen into Irish waters for first time since 1926; Ilen under East Link Bridge. In specially designed presentation folder with picture of two hands resting on a ship's wheel on the front, with "The Hunt Museum" across the centre and Hunt logo at bottom right.