‘sup?
Colin McGinley writes:
My business name is Howaya and I make illustrated prints of Irish people and culture.
The subjects range from sports people like Roy Keane to Dublin street characters like Bang Bang, to The Dubliners (€10 to €20), above. I’m based in Phibsborough, Dublin and sell the prints in local markets and from my website here.
Richard Bird writes:
Hi, we, at In Knocksink Wood, make Irish-made Fairy Doors in Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow. Each door – such as the Tooth Fairy Door above, €25, plus P&P – is hand crafted, cast from resin and hand painted, and we have a lovely range to collect. Doors, windows and accessories can be found on our website here. We are a small homemade craft business and do not mass produce our products.
Roger O’Reilly writes:
I work as an illustrator and storyboard artist for productions such as the TV series ‘Vikings’ among others. Recently I launched a new website: Ireland Posters which creates and prints a range of retro-style posters capturing the beauty and drama of Ireland and its regions.
The idea for the website started with just two posters, Kilkenny and Drogheda – my adopted city and my hometown; designed and printed partly as thank-you gifts to some friends and partly because I figured there was a demand out there for some nicely updated prints in the style of old railway posters.
Ireland Posters are currently offering 25 unique prints, with new works being added regularly. The posters and Prints are priced from €25 with illustrations of towns and popular destinations, through to fine architectural prints of Dublin’s iconic buildings such as The Custom House, Dublin Castle and the Four Courts. There are also a series of golfing prints capturing the country’s links courses. We ship worldwide.
Send Irish-Made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’. No fee. Please include profile/company bio and whatnot.
Previously: Do You Make Things In Ireland?
Richard BIrd – The Fair Door Company really ought to be knocking at your Fairy Door!
A door made from the palette and teeth of a child
I didn’t know ayatollah Khomeini was in the Dubliners.
That’s exactly what I thought too!
me three!
Me four… and everyone else got to the comments before me.
It’s the Fabulous Furry freak brothers….
I take it the next of kin of The Dubliners are being suitably recompensed for the use of their name and images?
You must be fun at parties
You wouldn’t steal a car.
“You must be fun at parties”
People who say that are usually intensely irritating giddy fools with nothing interesting or funny to say.
up there with “—— much?”
I really want to support these small businesses, but when they seem to be charging a lot of money for something available for less (or even nothing), it’s difficult.
For example, 20 seconds on Google gave me this: https://collectireland.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/image400.jpg
Now, €25 plus whatever extras for the posters above, or print this out?
A lot of it seems to be just offering printing and delivery at really, really high prices.
Places in town would do you a full colour A3 for 2-3 squid.
They aren’t just pulling photos from Google images and sending them to their desktop inkjet. They’re drawing them, colouring them, making them print quality, and printing them off professionally.
Read the descriptions:
“A2 (594 x 420mm) signed poster of …….
Printed on Amber wove poster stock
Artist: Roger O’Reilly”
Off you to your printer and print that so.
world’s most colourful Atahtollas
More maudlin sentimental band wagon jumping half assed unoriginal Oirish themed naval gazing retro mediocre cash-in rubbish.
Go be original and get back to me.
So you are profiting from other people’s fame, but not paying them a cent because you are producing charactertures.
The Behan one is cool IMHO.
Fairy door?
Are they leaving 25yoyos plus p&ps under me pillow
Jim Ether is a great artist.
Example: https://twitter.com/jimether/status/655866143610159104