In Popular Culture
- The Winnowing Oar appears in "The Oar," a poem by Michael Longley.
- Seamus Heaney alludes to the Winnowing Oar in his poem "Wolfe Tone."
- The poet Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin writes of the Winnowing Oar in her poem "The Second Voyage."
- In 2003 the artist Conrad Shawcross created a work, Winnowing Oar, based on the object. Sculpted in oak, spruce and ash, it is an imaginary tool with a winnowing fan at one end and an oar blade at the other. It formed part of the Shawcross' 2004 Continuum exhibition at the National Maritime Museum.
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