IrishCentral readers receive an exclusive 10% discount on authentic hand-knit Aran pieces just in time for Black Friday and ...

Niamh O’Maille is an anomaly in Ireland. She’s 29 years old and loves to knit. Niamh (pronounced naeve) comes by it naturally. Her grandfather and uncles founded O’Maille (O’Mawlya), a famous shop for ...

Was I an Irish fisherman in a past life? Did I spend the 20th century on a boat, out in the cold, clad in a warm, cozy, Aran sweater that my wife knit for me? I'm kind of convinced I was, given how ...

The Aran Islands are a group of three small islands located off the west coast of Ireland in Galway Bay. The three islands are Inis Mór (meaning “big island”), Inis Meáin (meaning “middle island”), ...

INISHMORE ISLAND, IRELAND—On a small Irish island, a world-renowned fashion accessory is produced, not by mechanized factories, but by knitting artists in an age-old, local tradition. A narrow road ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Establishing what is and isn’t Aran is a woolly issue. The name originally belonged to the sheep that inhabited three ...