Queen Victoria strove to make crochet more fashionable by buying crocheted lace crafted by Irish women striving to eke out a livelihood during the disastrous potato famine which decimated the ...

Dominique Maitre/WWD, Estrop Corsetry and conical bras make several appearances throughout the collection Hand-crochet and manipulated Irish lace feature in the collection, which includes "a nice ...

If you have done any sort of crochet lacework before, then you might recognize the iconic lace stitch called the pineapple ...

She was wearing a thong with a lace front." The 27-year-old man was found not guilty of rape shortly afterwards. The controversy led one Irish MP to hold up a lace thong in parliament to highlight ...

The Irish have been called names for centuries, and worldwide so much so that it is hard to remember where all the insults came from. We’ve put together our top ten. As against lace curtain ...

Forget about plain old stockinette stitch or single crochet – we’re diving deep into the world of chunky cables, fluffy ...

This brilliant guide of top tips for an Irish accent will have you sounding more like "The Commitments" than "Darby O'Gill," and that has to be a good thing. This is by far and away the most ...

Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6. Place a large saucepan over a high heat, add 1 tablespoon of the oil and brown the beef in batches so the pan isn't too full. Remove the beef from the pan ...

LATEST | Storm Ashley aftermath: Number of flights cancelled at Dublin Airport today, ESB crews work to restore power to over 16,000 homes Storm Ashley battered Ireland as winds gusted close to ...

Their web is made of silk with a woolly texture due to extremely fine and sticky fibres, which gives them the name lace-weavers. The window spider is found under tree bark, fallen logs, under stones, ...

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