Irish Tatler

Irish Businesses You Should Consider Buying From This Christmas

A growing list of independent Irish stores that would be so thrilled to help you find your perfect gift.

There has never been a time when shopping local is this important.

As bricks and mortar stores close for the foreseeable, consider supporting homegrown entrepreneurs while also picking up Christmas gifts from the online stores below.

30. Sarah McKenna

Irish ceramicist Sarah McKenna beautiful ceramic pottery and homeware is the ideal present for loved ones this Christmas, or for any occasion. Each piece is handmade with consideration for materials and for the environment around us.

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Sarah McKenna

Sarah McKenna has been developing her unique handmade Irish pottery at Bridge Street Studios since 1999. Before returning to Dundalk she studied Ceramics at Duncan of Jordonstone College of Art & Design, the University of Dundee, Scotland where she gained a Bachelor of Ceramic Design.

Sarah’s work has always been engaged in the process and the early studio work was concerned with smoke firing and raku firing sculptural vessel forms. In 2006 Sarah started producing a range of quirky customisable ceramics giftware which is the beginning of what you can purchase today. Read more here.