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Winter Woolies Mug

£8.23

Fine bone china mug featuring "Winter Woolies" by Northern Ireland artist Thomas Joseph. Dishwasher and microwave safe. Made in England by Royal Grafton.
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Time To Put Ewe'r Feet Up Mug

£8.23

Porcelain mug featuring "Time To Put Ewe'r Feet Up " by Northern Ireland artist Thomas Joseph. Dishwasher and microwave safe.
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Thomas Joseph Box Calendar 2011

£6.11

Clear plastic box calendar containing 12 of Thomas's famous whimsical sheep prints each with a calendar on the front and planner on the back. The featured pictures are: Global Warming, Cool Dude, Ewe're A Jolly Good Fellow, Who's A Baad Girl, Ewe Wanna' Know A Secret, Ewe're A Big Softee, Jenson Mutton, Ewe Livin' The High Life, We Love Ewe - Silly Moo, The "U" Factor, Ewe're A Star and Silent Night .

4.7"(120mm) wide and 5.4"(138mm) tall
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The Twelve Days of Christmas 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

£9.75

500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle: Approx. size when completed: 19" (480mm) wide, 14.5" (365mm) tall

A stunning interpretation of the classic Christmas song in Rachel’s inimitable style. It was illegal to be a Catholic in England from 1558 to 1829, so this was written as a catechism song to help young Catholics learn the basics of their faith. Since it sounded like rhyming nonsense, Catholics could sing it without fear of imprisonment. The song had hidden meanings; "true love" refers to God and "me" refers to the church. The twelve gifts also had their meanings. On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me twelve drummers drumming (the twelve points of doctrine in the Apostles’ Creed), eleven pipers piping (the eleven faithful apostles), ten lords a-leaping (the ten commandments), nine ladies dancing (the nine fruits of the Spirit), eight maids a-milking (the eight beatitudes), seven swans a-swimming (the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, the seven sacraments), six geese a-laying (the six days of creation), five golden rings (the first five books of the Old Testament, the "Pentateuch"), four calling birds (the four Gospels, the four evangelists), three French hens (faith, hope and charity), two turtle doves (the Old and New Testaments) and a partridge in a pear tree (Jesus Christ, symbolically presented as a mother partridge that acts as a decoy to save her helpless chicks from predators).
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Family Album Coaster

£2.06

Individual coaster featuring Family Album
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Nag Nag Nag Coaster

£2.06

Individual cork backed coaster featuring Nag Nag Nag
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Double Ewe Double Ewe Double Ewe Dot Coaster

£2.06

Individual coaster featuring Double Ewe Double Ewe Double Ewe Dot
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Ewe Are My Sunshine Coaster

£2.06

Individual coaster featuring Ewe Are My Sunshine
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Green Man 1000 piece Jigsaw Puzzle

£13.51

1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle: Approx. size when completed: 26.25" (655mm) wide, 19.75" (500mm) tall

The Green Man is a motif found in many cultures around the world. The representation of a face surrounded by or made of leaves; it is interpreted primarily as a symbol of rebirth, representing the cycle of growth each spring. Perhaps a fertility God, the beneficent spirit of vegetation or a tree spirit, the Green Man motif was still being built into European churches even after 1000 years of Christianity. Here the artist has depicted the Green Man as the centre of the life cycle of the Oak tree. Oak was a sacred tree for the Celts, thought to have special powers and to serve as the abode of the fairies. In reality the oak tree supports more insect, bird and animal life than any other. The Dagda, the powerful God of Celtic tradition, is likened to the oak, never failing to give hospitality to all who asked for it.
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We're Daft But We Love Ewe Mug

£8.23

Porcelain mug featuring "We're Daft But We Love Ewe" by Northern Ireland artist Thomas Joseph. Dishwasher and microwave safe.
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Baaad Girls Mug

£8.23

Porcelain mug featuring "Baaad Girls" by Northern Ireland artist Thomas Joseph. Dishwasher and microwave safe.
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Are Ewe The Boss? Mug

£8.23

Porcelain mug featuring "Are Ewe The Boss?" by Northern Ireland artist Thomas Joseph. Dishwasher and microwave safe.
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Form-ewe-la One Mug

£8.23

Porcelain mug featuring "Form-ewe-la One" by Northern Ireland artist Thomas Joseph. Dishwasher and microwave safe.
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St Brendan The Navigator Jigsaw Puzzle

£13.51

1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle Approx. size when completed: 26.25" (655mm) tall, 19.75" (500mm) wide

St. Brendan was born in 486 AD and founded a monastery at Clonfert, County Galway. Brendan travelled widely; he was said to have set sail with a handful of monks on a perilous seven-year quest across the Atlantic in a boat of wood and oxhide. En route, legend tells us that they were raised up on the backs of "sea monsters" (whales), they passed by "crystal columns that rose up to the sky" (icebergs) and they were pelted with "flaming, foul-smelling rocks" (from a volcano). Eventually, the intrepid voyagers arrived at a beautiful land they called the "Promised Land of the Saints", an island which became a standard feature on maps for the next millennium. It is widely believed that St. Brendan the Navigator and his monks had in fact arrived in America almost 1,000 years before Christopher Colombus.
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Eejits

£12.04

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Carpet Page 1000 piece Jigsaw Puzzle

£13.51

1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle: Approx. size when completed: 26.25" (655mm) wide, 19.75" (500mm) tall

A carpet page is a page of pure ornament, looking rather like an oriental carpet, with brilliant colours, active lines and complex patterns. They are commonly found in books in the Insular style, that is, the illuminated Celtic manuscripts produced in Irish and British monasteries from 600 to 900 AD. It has been suggested that the complexity of the ornamentation in carpet pages was believed to confuse evil spirits, thus keeping safe the sacred information contained in the chapters to follow. Some art historians have found ties between Insular carpet pages, Middle Eastern decorative text pages and oriental carpets. In this carpet page by Rachel Arbuckle, the artist has combined the geometric, angular lines of Moorish art with the softer curves and intricate interlacing of the Celts. The central structure of the design is a cross shape which is often found in Insular carpet pages, except in this case the artist has altered the proportions to suggest the four gates of the Tibetan mandala. Dogs, which are used as ornamentation throughout the design, feature extensively in Insular art and appear to have been adapted by Irish and Scottish monastic artists from a style of animal pattern which was found in Germanic art at the time. The result is a contemporary Celtic design which draws on an eclectic mix of styles and cultures, reflecting the possible influences from more exotic climes in Insular art.
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Highland Showdown

£2.59

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Courting Peacocks 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

£9.75

500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle: Approx. size when completed: 19" (480mm) wide, 14.5" (365mm) tall

The image of the peacock can be found in many cultures and traditions. The early Celts looked to the beasts of the earth, sky and sea in an attempt to understand life and believed animals taught them how to live in harmony with Nature itself. The peacock appeared as a symbol of beauty, paradise, rebirth, pride and the incorruptibility of the soul. It also tells the story of the heavens and the rays of the sun. As legend had it, the peacock’s flesh did not putrefy, so the Celts considered it a symbol of the Resurrection and everlasting life. Hence, it is widely used throughout early Christian Celtic manuscripts as a representation of Christ.
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Form-ewe-la One

£2.59

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Silly Ass

£2.59

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Boann Jigsaw Puzzle

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Price: £11.50 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Bóann was the wife of Elcmar, a Chieftain of the Tuatha Dé Danaan. One day Elcmar was dispatched on a long obscure errand by the All-Father, the Great God Dagda. Making nine months seem like one day, Dagda prolonged his absence while he seduced Bóann who then bore him Oengus. He was called the Mac Óg, the Young Son, for his mother said “young is the son who was begotten at break of day and born between it and evening”.

Bóann, the Goddess of the White Cow, became a cult figure of some importance among those late arrivals, the Celts, and was worshipped as a cow-goddess by them (the cow was a symbol of abundance). Her cult centre was at Brú-na-Bóann, the great neolithic cemetery of tombs and tumuli in the Boyne Valley. Water from the Well of the White Cow, which is now known as St. Patrick’s Well on the Hill of Tara, eventually leads into the River Boyne which is named after Bóann.

Diarmuid and Gráinne Jigsaw Puzzle

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Price: £11.50 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

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Diarmuid Donn Mac Duibhne "the master and charmer of women" was a member of the Fianna of Fionn Mac Cumhaill and one of his closest friends. Diarmuid, however, committed the unforgivable sin of eloping with Fionn’s bride-to-be, the beautiful Gráinne. For many years they were on the run from Fionn and the Fianna and wandered through Connacht and Munster.

They eventually made their peace with Fionn through the goodwill of Aongus, but in his heart Fionn never forgave Diarmuid. Fionn lured Diarmuid to the top of Ben Bulben, Co. Sligo and left him alone to face a fierce wild boar. After a long fight Diarmuid managed to kill the beast but was mortally gored himself. Fionn refused him the only thing that could save him, a draught of water from the hands of Fionn, who had the gift of healing. Twice Fionn brought water to Diarmuid and twice let it flow through his fingers, and by the third time he brought water, Diarmuid was dead.

Nuada The High King Jigsaw Puzzle

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Price: £11.50 (Excluding VAT at 17.5%)

1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

The Tuatha Dé Danaan were a mystical race of people who invaded Ireland on the fire festival of Beltene. Immediately setting fire to their magical ships, they demanded battle from the Fomor and the Fir Bolg, for Ireland was theirs by right of heredity, their promised land. In the ensuing First Battle of Moy Tura, Nuada, the semi-devine King of the Tuatha Dé, lost an arm and because of this mutilation was obliged to abdicate in favour of Breas the Beautiful. Breas was a tyrannical ruler and all laboured under the heavy taxation demanded. Moreover, Breas lacked the mark of a true king of his race: generosity. The chieftains of the Tuatha Dé complained that "their knives were not greased by him, and however often they visited him their breaths did not smell of ale". There was on art, no music, no poetry, no entertainment; Ireland was a "land of sheep" and the Tuatha Dé were divided. Meanwhile Nuada, his arm struck off, was seven years under cure from Dian Cécht the Healer. During this time the healing was completed and a silver arm, richly decorated with sacred runes, and with movement in every finger, was fitted to his shoulder. From then on he was known as Nuada of the Silver Arm, and he was reinstated as High King.

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