The Claddagh ring has long been a symbol of love in jewellery form, featuring a crowned heart clasped by two hands. It is ...

As it welcomed designers from around the world, Irish Design Week 2025 offered a distinctly homegrown approach. Now in its fourth year, the festival comprised over 65 events across multiple counties, ...

The original workshops included training in candle making, weaving, linen knitting, and textiles with an additional focus on bog oak, clays, and pottery to name a few. After much success, the ...

With Cyber Monday Black Tag Sale and Christmas shopping in full swing, there is no better time to think about a gift for a loved one, family member or close friend. Especially as there is now 60% off ...

Tucked away in the vegetable market of Dublin is a pottery studio that’s showcasing the beauty of Irish design -- and capturing interest in the US and Europe, far beyond its humble headquarters. The ...

A collaboration between graphic artist Anthony Burrill and the National Print Museum is to form part of Irish Design Week, which begins on Monday. Burrill visited the museum to explore its collection ...

Ruth O’Connor went along to Showcase craft and design trade fair in Dublin’s RDS to meet the makers. Fresh off the back of collabs with Guinness and Trinity College, Pawpear is a colourful Irish ...

A new exhibit opens today at the American Irish Historical Society in New York. The theme: contemporary Irish design, which for aesthetes is an oxymoron along the lines of “Irish sobriety.” Indeed, in ...

Last month in Ireland, BFA Advertising and BFA Design Chair Gail Anderson (BFA 1984 Media Arts) joined SVA students and faculty at Design West, the SVA Destinations summer program that enables ...

The walls of the bar are covered in old art, photographs of Ireland, and yellowing posters in frames. A pair of hurleys, the flat ash stick of the Gaelic game, are tacked above the door frame. The bar ...