Colour:  Mauve

Material:  55% Wool  45% Silk

Dimensions:  190cm x 70cm

Weight:  170g

Each of these Mulligans Ireland “Island Range” of shawls has been inspired by and named after an Irish Island.  Each one comes with a story about the island, its history and inhabitants.

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Inis Cealtra (holy Island) lies off the western shore of Lough Derg in County Clare. It was once a monastic settlement, and in fact the cemetery on the island is still in use, with coffins and mourners being transported the short distance from County Clare in small boats. Inis Cealtra is scattered with ruins of religious and historical interest, including an Irish Round Tower.
The building of this tower and St. Caimin’s Church is ascribed to the eleventh century High King of Ireland Brian Boru. A significant figure in early Irish history, Brian Boru united the kingdoms of Ireland and lifted Ireland out of the ruins of the Norse Age.

Colour:  Emerald Green

Material:  55% Wool  45% Silk

Dimensions:  190cm x 70cm

Weight:  170g

Each of these Mulligans Ireland “Island Range” of shawls has been inspired by and named after an Irish Island.  Each one comes with a story about the island, its history and inhabitants.

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Made famous by the Irish poet W B Yates and located in Lough Gill, County Sligo, Yeats describes the inspiration for his poem ‘Lake Isle of Innisfree’ coming from a “sudden” memory of his childhood while walking down Fleet Street in London. The poem begins …

“I will arise and go now,
and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade…”

Colour: Vibrant Green and Violet

Material:  55% Wool  45% Silk

Dimensions:  190cm x 57cm

Weight:  150g

Each of these Mulligans Ireland “Island Range” of wraps has been inspired by and named after an Irish Island.  Each one comes with a story about the island, its history and inhabitants.

“A splash of Celtic splendour”

Maker:  Mulligans Ireland “Island Range”

Colour: Pewter

Material:  55% Wool  45% Silk

Dimensions:  190cm x 57cm

Weight:  150g

Each of these Mulligans Ireland “Island Range” of wraps has been inspired by and named after an Irish Island.  Each one comes with a story about the island, its history and inhabitants.

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Skellig Michael (also known as Great Skellig) is a towering sea crag rising from the Atlantic Ocean almost 12 kilometres west of the Ivereagh Peninsula in County Kerry.  The island is an extremely striking jag of rock jutting defiantly above the crashing wind swept waves of the Atlantic ocean.  The name Skellig derives from Sceillic which means a steep rock.  Venerated as a place of pilgrimage for centuries, for over 5 hundred years the island was home to a small group of ascetic monks who funded a monastery there around the seventh century, the well preserved remains are a popular visitor attraction to this day.  The monastery is famous for it’s dome shaped cells (‘beehive huts’ or ‘Clochán‘) once used by the monks as shelter and accommodation.

Colour: Pewter

Material:  55% Wool  45% Silk

Dimensions:  190cm x 57cm

Weight:  150g

Each of these Mulligans Ireland “Island Range” of wraps has been inspired by and named after an Irish Island.  Each one comes with a story about the island, its history and inhabitants.

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Known locally as simply ‘the Island’, Great Blasket lies off Dunmore Head in county Kerry.  In the past the whole group of Islands was referred to as Ferriter’s Islands. In the 13th Century the Ferriter family leased the Islands from the Earls of Desmond where they retained a castle at Rinn an Chaisleáin (Castle Point). All signs of the castle have now gone because the stones were reused to build the Protestant soup-school in 1840. The same school was closed down in 1852 after the ravages of the Great Famine.  The last of the Ferriters to control the Blaskets was the poet and rebel chieftain, Captain Piaras Feirtéar. He was hanged at Cnocán na gCaorach in Killarney in 1653 following defeat in battle.

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Toraigh lies 9 miles off the north-west coast of County Donegal, Toraigh (pronounced Tory) is the most remote of Ireland’s inhabited islands where people still talk of ‘travelling to Ireland’.
Toraigh is famous for its school of ‘primitive painters’, who were encouraged by the internationally famous painter, the late Derek Hill. Gailearaí Dixon exhibits the work of island artists. Interesting historical sites include a round tower that once protected monks from Viking raids, the ruins of St Colmcille’s 6th century monastery and the intriguing Tau Cross that suggests early seafaring links to the Coptic Christians of Egypt.

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InishKeeragh, Co. Donegal
According to legend, InishKeeragh was once part of a larger island known as Inis-fithi. On the 16th of March in the year 804, there was ‘a great storm of thunder, lightning, and wind, which exceeded so much in violence all the storms ever before witnessed, and so terrified the people, that it was recorded among Ireland’s Wonders’. when the people of the coast looked out the following morning on St. Patrick’s Day, they found the island of Inis-fithi divided into three parts. The largest of these is what we now know as Inish-Keeragh, and the portions severed from the main body are the two masses of rock which rise out of the waves north of the island.

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the most northerly island of Ireland, lying north of Donegal. in centuries past, as millions of emigrants left their homeland bound for the “New World” one emigrant recalled:

“Inishtrahull lighthouse was the last glimpse we would have of Ireland and everyone stayed on deck until it disappeared. They stayed on when they couldn’t see it anymore because the more keen sighted kept saying it is still there. When the sharp eyed ones admitted the light had faded all frivolity ceased, handkerchiefs came out and there was much sniffing as we drifted without word to our cabins. The next stop was New York”

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Inishmore (Árainn) is the largest of the Galway Aran Islands and is an extension of the famous limestone rocks of The Burren. The landscape of Inishmore is a patchwork of fields hemmed in by precariously balanced dry stone walls. The rugged landscape and unique culture of Inishmore and the other Aran islands has provided inspiration to artists and poets over the centuries, and W.B.Yeats famously advised J.M. Synge to ‘Go to the Aran Islands, and find a life that has never been expressed in literature’. Synge followed the advice, and it holds good for anyone wishing to experience the unique blend of landscape and culture found on the islands. It is said that a visit to Inishmore will remain in the heart for eternity.