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Irish Calendars 2024
Christmas Collection View all
Christmas Postcard Selection
Regular price $13.00 Sale price $11.00
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Selection of 15 high quality large size Real Ireland Christmas postcards
These postcards are produced in conjunction with the Saint Vincent De Paul charity
Standard size postcards 17 x 12cm Matt finish
Photography by Liam Blake
Jigsaw Puzzles View all
The Singing Swans - Jigsaw Puzzle
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Beautiful 500 piece high quality jigsaw puzzle featuring a Celtic legend illustration by Irish artist Jim FitzPatrick.
Produced on linen paper and blue puzzle cardboard
Size 48.5 x 34.5cm
The Singing Swans
The singing swans were the children of the king, Lir of the Tuatha Dé Danann, who married a war-witch named Aoife. Jealous of his children by a previous wife she transformed them all into swans. Lir had a harpist play to the children in swan form as they nested on Lough Darravaragh while awaiting reincarnation to human form over 400 years of exile.
Jim FitzPatrick
No man in Ireland has sharper awareness of what we inherit from the ancient past than Jim FitzPatrick. Not only is he an authority on Celtic art, his own highly individualistic work embodies all the Celtic virtues; vivid imagination, love of sumptuous detail harnessed to a breathtaking capacity for taking pains and - most significantly of all - a sense of the mystery that hides behind the material world.
He is the most eloquent Irish poet ever to wield a paintbrush.
Boann - River Goddess - Jigsaw Puzzle
Regular price $17.00
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Beautiful 500 piece high quality jigsaw puzzle featuring a Celtic legend illustration by Irish artist Jim FitzPatrick.
Produced on linen paper and blue puzzle cardboard
Size 48.5 x 34.5cm
Goddess Boann
Boann was the river-goddess of the river Boyne and a warrior princess of the mystical tribe known as the Tuatha Dé Danann who came to Ireland in earliest times in a fleet of ships that ‘sailed the high air and the low air’ and conquered the island of Éireann. She also gave her name to the river Bóinn, or Boyne, in Co. Meath, which runs beside the Brú at Newgrange.
Jim FitzPatrick
No man in Ireland has sharper awareness of what we inherit from the ancient past than Jim FitzPatrick. Not only is he an authority on Celtic art, his own highly individualistic work embodies all the Celtic virtues; vivid imagination, love of sumptuous detail harnessed to a breathtaking capacity for taking pains and - most significantly of all - a sense of the mystery that hides behind the material world.
He is the most eloquent Irish poet ever to wield a paintbrush.
Irish Donkeys - Jigsaw Puzzle
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Beautiful 500 piece high quality jigsaw puzzle featuring Irish Donkeys and a dry stone wall.
Produced on linen paper and blue puzzle cardboard
Size 48.5 x 34.5cm
Irish Donkeys
Traditionally in Ireland donkeys were used to carry turf from the bogs and loose stone to clear fields. The stone was then used to construct dry stone walls to mark out the boundaries of farms and small holdings.
Donkeys are a much loved animal in Ireland and even when they became of less use on the land due to mechanisation, they held their place in Irish hearts and are often kept as charming pets on farms.
Photography © Liam Blake
Liam Blake was born in Dublin, Ireland and developed a keen interest in photography at an early age. An award winning photographer, Liam works almost exclusively in Ireland and his work for Real Ireland Design was responsible for ushering in a new worldwide appreciation of the beauty of Ireland through its ranges of postcards, calendars, books, posters and now jigsaw puzzles.
He is the author of several photographic books and has exhibited his work in galleries throughout Ireland.
Cliffs of Moher - Jigsaw Puzzle
Regular price $17.00
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Beautiful 500 piece high quality jigsaw puzzle featuring the magnificent Cliffs of Moher on the west coast of Ireland.
Produced on linen paper and blue puzzle cardboard
Size 48.5 x 34.5cm
Cliffs of Moher
The Cliffs of Moher are one of Ireland’s top visitor attractions and are a designated UNESCO Geopark. The Cliffs range for 10 kilometres over the Atlantic Ocean on the western seaboard of County Clare on the west coast of Ireland and are 214m high at the highest point where O’Brien’s Tower stands proudly on a headland.
From the cliffs one can see the Aran Islands and Galway Bay, as well as The Twelve Bens Mountains, the Maumturk Mountains in Connemara and Loop Head to the South. The Cliff face is home to one of the major colonies of cliff nesting seabirds in Ireland.
Photography © Liam Blake
Liam Blake was born in Dublin, Ireland and developed a keen interest in photography at an early age. An award winning photographer, Liam works almost exclusively in Ireland and his work for Real Ireland Design was responsible for ushering in a new worldwide appreciation of the beauty of Ireland through its ranges of postcards, calendars, books, posters and now jigsaw puzzles.
He is the author of several photographic books and has exhibited his work in galleries throughout Ireland.
Dublin City - Jigsaw Puzzle
Regular price $17.00
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Beautiful 500 piece high quality jigsaw puzzle featuring the Ha'penny Bridge and river Liffey, Dublin City, Ireland.
Produced on linen paper and blue puzzle cardboard
Size 48.5 x 34.5cm
Dublin City
Dublin, like most great cities, did not grow overnight. Founded by the Vikings over a thousand years ago, it has evolved through the Middle Ages and Georgian Era to become one of the friendliest and most fashionable capitals in Europe.
The name Dublin derives from the two Irish words Dubh (black) and Lynn (pool). The Black Pool was a small tidal pool formed where the River Poddle entered the River Liffey. The official Irish name for the city is Baile Atha Cliath, or the “Town of the Hurdled Ford”. This refers to an ancient ford across the River Liffey, which was situated near the modern Father Mathew Bridge.
Photography © Liam Blake
Liam Blake was born in Dublin, Ireland and developed a keen interest in photography at an early age. An award winning photographer, Liam works almost exclusively in Ireland and his work for Real Ireland Design was responsible for ushering in a new worldwide appreciation of the beauty of Ireland through its ranges of postcards, calendars, books, posters and now jigsaw puzzles.
He is the author of several photographic books and has exhibited his work in galleries throughout Ireland.
Irish Pictorial
GUIDEBOOKS
Full colour beautifully produced and informative Pictorial Irish Guidebooks in various languages.
