Irish Art Christmas Gifts

A print is the rare gift that stays on the wall long after Christmas.

These are the works that have travelled furthest from this shop — Mainie Jellett's Achill horses, Frederic William Burton's The Meeting on the Turret Stairs, the Ha'penny Bridge at night, the light coming off Murlough Bay. Several of the originals hang in the National Gallery of Ireland.

Every print is made to order at the press nearest the delivery address — Ireland, the UK, the United States, Canada or Australia — so a gift posted to Boston or Brisbane arrives as quickly as one posted to Cork. For a gift, framed is usually the kinder choice: it arrives ready for the wall. An unframed print, however good, hands the person you are giving it to a trip to the framer and a bill of their own — so unframed suits someone you know likes to frame things their way.

Not sure what suits the occasion? Irish art as a gift sets out what works for a wedding, a new home, an anniversary, a christening, or someone living far from Ireland — with named works and honest reasons, including what to avoid.

Reference pages: Irish artists we print — who each artist was, their dates, and where their work hangs. National Gallery of Ireland works we print — every work whose original is in the national collection, with dates, media and accession numbers. Which Irish art is in the public domain — and when the rest arrives.