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From Celtic fashion to witty Irish humor tees and custom sneakers, every design celebrates heritage and pride.

Oliver Cromwell died on this day in 1658 in London. Few figures in Irish history have been remembered with such hatred.J...
03/09/2026

Oliver Cromwell died on this day in 1658 in London. Few figures in Irish history have been remembered with such hatred.

Just nine years earlier, Cromwell had invaded Ireland. His campaign became infamous for the mass killings at Drogheda and Wexford and beyond, while the wider Cromwellian conquest brought brutal warfare, famine, disease and the confiscation of huge amounts of Irish Catholic-owned land.

On 30 January 1661, his co**se was subjected to a posthumous ex*****on at Tyburn, where it was hanged in chains and subsequently beheaded.

02/09/2026

We had a few requests from customers with Irish roots in Canada and the US for this one… so here it is. Loch Ontario Go Brách. ☘️

In Gaeilge, September is Meán Fómhair — literally “middle of autumn” or “mid-autumn.”Meán means middle, while fómhar ref...
02/09/2026

In Gaeilge, September is Meán Fómhair — literally “middle of autumn” or “mid-autumn.”

Meán means middle, while fómhar refers to autumn or the harvest season. It’s a lovely example of how the Irish language can preserve an older way of looking at the year. In the traditional Gaelic calendar, autumn begins around Lúnasa in August, so by September you really are in the middle of autumn — Meán Fómhair.

And October follows the same pattern: Deireadh Fómhair — the end of autumn.

So while the English names September and October ultimately come from Latin number words, Gaeilge describes where we are in the season itself. 🍂🇮🇪

Another little reminder that our language carries history, culture and an older Irish way of seeing the world in the words themselves.

By the beginning of September 1920, Belfast was in the grip of some of the worst violence of Ireland’s revolutionary per...
02/09/2026

By the beginning of September 1920, Belfast was in the grip of some of the worst violence of Ireland’s revolutionary period.

From 1 September, a nightly 10:30pm curfew was imposed on the city as British military and police patrols took to the streets.

The violence had already been building for weeks. In July, thousands of Catholic workers, along with some Protestant trade unionists and labour activists, had been driven from the Belfast shipyards and other workplaces. What followed was a brutal period of sectarian and political violence, with Catholic and Protestant communities both suffering deaths, injuries and the destruction of homes.

The events also form part of the often-overlooked story of Belfast during the Irish War of Independence, a city where a substantial nationalist population lived through revolution, partition and growing sectarian division.

While much of the history of the War of Independence focuses on Dublin and Munster, the north had its own story, and for many ordinary families in Belfast, it was a particularly bloody one.

Sin é 👌🇮🇪 💚 🇨🇦
01/09/2026

Sin é 👌🇮🇪 💚 🇨🇦

A Christian preacher, describing fellow Christians.
01/09/2026

A Christian preacher, describing fellow Christians.

We’ve had a few requests in the last few days from customers in Canada and the US for an Irish take on Lake Ontario, so ...
31/08/2026

We’ve had a few requests in the last few days from customers in Canada and the US for an Irish take on Lake Ontario, so we put this one together for a customer today. Loch Ontario Go Brách. 🇨🇦☘️🇮🇪

It seems Google Maps Ireland didn’t get the memo.
31/08/2026

It seems Google Maps Ireland didn’t get the memo.

Dublin witnessed one of the darkest days of the great Lockout, a day that became known as Bloody Sunday. 🇮🇪 On 31 August...
31/08/2026

Dublin witnessed one of the darkest days of the great Lockout, a day that became known as Bloody Sunday. 🇮🇪

On 31 August 1913, thousands gathered around Sackville Street, today's O'Connell Street, hoping to hear trade union leader James Larkin speak. The authorities had banned the meeting and issued a warrant for Larkin's arrest, but disguised as an elderly man, he managed to enter the Imperial Hotel, appeared on a balcony and addressed the crowd before being arrested.

What followed was brutal. Police baton-charged the crowds, with workers, women and innocent bystanders caught in the violence. Hundreds were injured, with Dublin City records stating that more than 600 people were treated in hospital. James Nolan, an innocent bystander, also died that morning from injuries received in a police baton attack the previous night.

The violence came just days into the Dublin Lockout, the bitter struggle between workers fighting for the right to organise and employers led by William Martin Murphy. Eventually more than 20,000 workers would be locked out or go on strike, with their families enduring months of hardship. Bloody Sunday became one of the defining moments of that struggle, Dublin's working people demanding the right to organise and being met with police batons on the streets. 🇮🇪

Four days after British forces were sent racing from Castlebar, something even more remarkable happened. 🇮🇪 On 31 August...
31/08/2026

Four days after British forces were sent racing from Castlebar, something even more remarkable happened. 🇮🇪

On 31 August 1798, French General Jean Humbert established a republican administration in Connacht and appointed Mayo man John Moore as President of the Government of the Province of Connacht. It followed the famous victory at Castlebar on 27 August, when Humbert's French troops and their Irish allies defeated the Crown forces under General Lake. The new government was based in Castlebar and was ordered to organise local administration, raise troops and provide supplies for the French and Irish armies. Humbert's decree called on Irishmen to take up arms in the name of the Irish Republic, describing the enemy as the English government and independence as the goal.

It wouldn't last long as the Franco-Irish army was eventually defeated at Ballinamuck on 8 September, but for those few extraordinary days in 1798, British authority had been driven from much of Mayo and a republican government was operating from Castlebar. More than a century before the Easter Rising and the First Dáil, the idea of an independent Irish Republic was already being fought for on Irish soil. 🇮🇪

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