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In this introduction to the best known film and TV series where the majority of the filming was undertaken in Ireland, we take a look behind the scenes and explore the spectacular locations used by the filmmakers. 

Which Irish road was renamed after a Star Wars character?What John Wayne did during the filming of The Quiet Man?That Ryan’s Daughter was based on Flaubert’s Madame Bovary?That a vampire story was filmed in the library used by Bram Stoker?The Dublin location used for filming The Italian Job, Michael Collins and The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones?

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

This calendar has been produced utilising a fine art printing process which renders the images in a much higher resolution more akin to a photographic print. There is information about the Book of Kells on each page.

The book of Kells dates from c.800 A.D. and contains the four Gospels in Latin.

Now measuring 33 x 25.5 cm having been trimmed and rebound in the 19th century. It is written on vellum and the Gospel texts are prefaced with Canon Tables and characterisations of the Evangelists.

What makes the Book of Kells unique are the lavish illustrations intertwined with the text with the intention of glorifying God's creations. THEIR are many full pages containing decorations and symbols such as for the Cannon Tables.

The book was illustrated by what appears to have been four artists whose work has been likened to that of goldsmiths. A number of pigments were used including arsenic sulphate for yellow, red lead or an unidentified organic matter for red and blue was created from indigo or woad.

The Book of Kells was probably used for special ceremonial occasions rather than for daily services. This conclusion has been reached as the transcription of the text was sumptuous but also rather careless with some entire words having been omitted. In other sections texts have been repeated and subsequently painted over to hide the error.

Now bound into four volumes two of which are usually on view in the Old Library at Trinity College Dublin (one showing  a decorated page and the other text), the Book of Kells attracts in excess of 800,000 visitors a year. 

Dublin, comme la plupart des villes, ne s’est pas construite du jour au lendemain. Fondée par les Vikings il y a plus de mille ans, elle s’est développée pendant le Moyen-âge et l’époque géorgienne pour devenir une des capitales les plus conviviales et à la mode d’Europe. Ce guide illustré vous raconte l’histoire de Dublin et présente certains de ses plus importants sites touristiques : allant des cathédrales médiévales et chefs-d’œuvre architecturaux du XVIIIe siècle aux musées, pubs et parcs. Doté des photographies de Liam Blake, un des photographes les plus connus de la ville, il vous aide également à explorer Dublin et est un hommage à sa culture et son histoire.

En dépit de sa renommée dans le monde entier, Dublin est une ville incroyablement petite et intime. C’est un aspect important de son charme, car dans les quartiers centraux compacts se trouvent des musées, des galeries d’art, des cathédrales et églises médiévales, des maisons mitoyennes géorgiennes et de grands édifices publics qui font tous partie d’une histoire datant de plus de mille ans. Or, Dublin est également connu pour ses pubs animés, ses théâtres, ses salles de concert et son patrimoine littéraire. Tout ceci contribue à l’atmosphère typiquement pleine de vie de cette ville contemporaine et sa fantastique vie sociale et culturelle.  

A4 wall calendar featuring the ever vibrant Dublin Bay.

Size 29.7cm x 21cm (opening to 59.4cm x 21cm)

This beautifully produced calendar features the work of celebrated Irish photographer Liam Blake. 

This calendar features places from around Dublin Bay, Ireland. From Killiney to Howth Liam has produced some beautiful photographs of well known and well loved swimming locations, towns, lighthouses and boats and of course the famous Poolbeg chimneys. This calendar features an illustrated map of Dublin Bay and will appeal to tourists and Dublin people alike.

A jewel in the Garden County.Photography © Liam Blake

Beautiful 500 piece high quality jigsaw puzzle featuring a Celtic legend illustration by Irish artist Jim FitzPatrick.

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

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.

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.

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.

 Here Tony Curtis writes 24 poems to celebrate great women writers from now back to Sappho 2600 years ago, and Liam Blake finds places of beauty, then observes the sky and listens to weather forecasts so as to return to capture a perfect cast of light. Dr Pat Meere, co-author of Geology of Ireland: A Field Guide *, described to me these rocks at Garretstown and Garrylucas, as “gorgeous rocks and a marrying of aesthetics and geology”. Science and art can both be a fullness and an enhancement of the other and these poems and images balance within a space where knowledge is both present and optional.

“Gorgeous rocks and a marrying of aesthetics and geology” –Dr Pat Meere
Head of Geology at UCC Cork City and co-author of Geology of Ireland: A Field Guide.

The rocks which we see in this book are located on the coast 4 km to the northwest of the Old Head of Kinsale in County Cork. They started life some 330 million year ago as muds, silts and fine sands that were washed down from great mountain ranges mainly to the north into a shallow, gradually deepening, coastal sea. Within this sea we can imagine small drifting and free-swimming organisms, such as goniotites, which were shelled relatives of the present day octopus, squid and Nautilus, and whose fossilised shells can now be seen within some of these rocks. Although we age these rocks as some 330 million years old we can think of them as old as the beginning of this planet some 4.5 billion years ago since they are composed of the detritus of eroded earlier lands, which in turn were composed of even earlier lands.

Photography © Liam Blake

Poetry Tony Curtis

The spectacular landscapes of the West Cork peninsulas with their raw and almost

skeletal qualities are very much the product of the underlying bedrock geology of the

region. This geology predominantly consists of layered sandstones, siltstones and

mudstones of Upper Devonian age that were deposited in a large sedimentary basin,

the Munster Basin, 380-360 million years ago.

“This syncline structure, while relatively small, very powerfully evokes the incredible tectonic forces that were required to produce the Variscan mountain belt of southern Ireland, a geological event that shapes our landscapes to this very day.” –Dr Pat Meere
Head of Geology at UCC Cork City and co-author of Geology of Ireland: A Field Guide.

Photography © Liam Blake

Poetry Tony Curtis

The Wild Atlantic Way is the World's longest coastal driving route. It stretches from County Donegal in the north all along the wild and rugged west coast of Ireland to County Cork in the south. Taking in seven Irish counties the route offers spectacular views of the Irish Atlantic coast taking in many of the unique features of Ireland such as the magnificent Cliffs of Moher, the Burren, colourful and vibrant towns, traditional Irish Pubs and many other fantastic attractions. 

Features a map of the Wild Atlantic Way route which shows the locations where the photographs were taken.

This calendar has been produced utilising a fine art printing process which renders the images in a much higher resolution more akin to a photographic print. The calendarium shows the phases of the moon.

High quality Slim wall calendar featuring a selection of images from Dublin, the capital city of Ireland.

Size 21cm x 14.5cm (opening to 42 x 14.5cm)

These images are the work of Irish photographer Liam Blake and they offer an insight into the vibrant city and surrounding area.

This calendar has been produced utilising a fine art printing process which renders the images in a much higher resolution more akin to a photographic print.
The calendarium also shows the phases of the moon.

This sumptuously produced calendar features the work of celebrated Irish landscape photographer Liam Blake. Liam travels the length and breath of Ireland throughout the year in order to capture images of Ireland's ancient landscapes. This calendar celebrates the Irish Castle in all its forms and spanning centuries.

These calendars have been produced utilising a fine art printing process which renders the images in a much higher resolution more akin to a photographic print.

This calendar features a location map which shows the locations where the photographs were taken and the calendarium also shows the phases of the moon.

Liam travels the length and breadth of Ireland throughout the year in order to capture the beautiful scenery of Ireland and to present them as a collection for you to enjoy in your own home or to give as a gift.

 This calendar features a location map which shows the locations where the photographs were taken.

This calendar has been produced utilising a fine art printing process which renders the images in a much higher resolution more akin to a photographic print.The calendarium shows the phases of the moon.

This sumptuously produced calendar features the work of celebrated Irish landscape photographer Liam Blake. Liam travels the length and breath of Ireland throughout the year in order to capture the beautiful scenery of Ireland and to present them as a collection for you to enjoy in your own home or to give as a gift.

This calendar has been produced utilising a fine art printing process which renders the images in a much higher resolution more akin to a photographic print.
This calendar features a location map which shows the locations where the photographs were taken and the calendarium also shows the phases of the moon.

This sumptuously produced calendar features the work of celebrated Irish landscape photographer Liam Blake. Liam travels the length and breath of Ireland throughout the year in order to capture images of the people and landscape, the towns and villages, the pubs and shopfronts and to present them as a collection for you to enjoy in your own home or to give as a gift.

These calendars have been produced utilising a fine art printing process which renders the images in a much higher resolution more akin to a photographic print.
This calendar features a location map which shows the locations where the photographs were taken and the calendarium also shows the phases of the moon.

Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin on the 6th of October 1854 into an upper-class Anglo-Irish family. He became known for his flamboyant style and great wit. He is best remembered as a playwright with his stage works such as Lady Windermere’s Fan, The Importance of being Earnest, A Woman of no Importance and The Picture of Dorian Grey bringing him international fame. 

“Those who don’t know Irish pubs, and the interesting people who frequent them, will always possess only a superficial knowledge of Irish life and culture. The Irish pub is not only an excellent guide to many attractive centres of celebration; it is also a helpful and civilised introduction to higher education in a convivial atmosphere.

This calendar has been produced utilising a fine art printing process which renders the images in a much higher resolution more akin to a photographic print. The calendarium shows the phases of the moon.

High quality Slim wall calendar which features well known Irish proverbs with humorous illustrations.

Size 21cm x 14.5cm (opening to 42 x 14.5cm)

A new thought provoking quote for each month of the year. Enjoy in your own home or to give as a gift. “You’ll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind.”

This high quality medium size calendar features the work of Irish landscape photographer Liam Blake. He travels the length and breath of Ireland throughout the year in order to capture images of Ireland for our various collections. Here he has concentrated on the mystical and magical aspects of the Island. The places which offer a unique feeling or mood.

These calendars have been produced utilising a fine art printing process which renders the images in a much higher resolution more akin to a photographic print.
This calendar features a new location map which shows the locations where the photographs were taken and the calendarium also shows the phases of the moon.

This sumptuously produced calendar features the work of celebrated Irish landscape photographer Liam Blake. Liam travels the length and breath of Ireland throughout the year in order to capture images of the people and landscape, the towns and villages, the pubs and shopfronts and to present them as a collection for you to enjoy in your own home or to give as a gift.

This Real Ireland calendars have been produced utilising a fine art printing process which renders the images in a much higher resolution more akin to a photographic print.
This calendar features a location map which shows the locations where the photographs were taken and the calendarium also shows the phases of the moon.