Th landscape my dear.
The Celt has soul...earned and honed by starvation and blight.Persecution for religeous belief..used by rich landowners.
and where else to go then is there but
CREATIVITY
the music.. the weavers and that started as a cottage industry
In Scotland also the Shetland/Orkney weavers have a similar ethos.People here left for the New World when their roof were burned to evict them.Our history is bloody.

The Irish use words lyricly even when speaking .
when all else is taken what is held within surfaces.
These Irish designers are special. Their lecturers must hold the key too.

Mountain ash