The Rebellion of 1641 marked the beginning of the Irish Confederate War and led to the establishment of the brief Irish Catholic Confederate.
Though Aran sweaters were originally knit with coarse, oil-rich wool, today’s sweaters are made with increasingly soft merino wool.
Though popularly thought to be based on Romanian king Vlad III, Bram Stoker’s Dracula was largely inspired by Irish folk tales and legends.
The Aran sweater as we know it today evolved from a type of Irish fisherman’s sweater worn on the remote Aran Islands in the 19th century.
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