If you can’t get to the Parade and you’re desperate for your annual Irish fix, you can always celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by cooking the bacon and cabbage at home and settling down with a pint of ...

When a sheep farmer from Galway in July posted a receipt online for €17.75 for the sale of 355kg of wool sheared from his 245 sheep, it brought home how worthless wool has become in Ireland. A once ...

Four years after Evelyn Shannon started spinning her own wool, she is on a mission to get people thinking about and supporting this once-thriving Irish industry Spinner Evelyn Shannon Evelyn Shannon ...

Knitting hones skills in analytic geometry, abstract algebra and topology argues Esther Rutter, tracing the history of wool and knitting throughout the British Isles. Having grown up on a sheep farm ...

County Donegal, a region of breath-taking beauty in Northwest of Ireland is synonymous with tweed. For centuries, every farm hand-loomed its own wool after harvest. Now, most of that tweed is ...

Galway Wool Co-Op secretary Blátnaid Gallagher with Avoca director of marketing Maoliosa O'Connell. 'The Galway' sheep. Avoca has crafted a new partnership with the Galway Wool Co-Op that will see the ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. If you’ve ever knitted, weaved, crocheted, or done needlepoint, you know not all yarns are created ...

A SHARED passion for yarn has inspired three women to create a social enterprise that is helping hundreds of people across the north to improve their mental health and wellbeing. Inspiring Yarns ...