Irish Identity Without the Cartoon
STILL
HERE

We have resisted oppression from some of the strongest forces in history. And we are still here.

Not the shamrock. Not the tourist. Not the institution that took the inside of our heads and called it salvation. The Ireland that survived in songs, in words that English cannot say, in the people who refused to forget who they were.
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The numbers
don't lie.

Ireland is run by people who have decided that some Irish people matter more than others. The data below is not opinion. It is the documented record of decisions made by people who were elected to make different ones.

01
15,199
Homeless in Ireland
The number of people without a home in Ireland as of November 2024 — in a country with 32 landlord TDs sitting in the Dáil.
Source: Department of Housing, Nov 2024
02
32
Landlord TDs in the Dáil
Thirty-two members of the legislature who pass housing policy also own rental properties. The conflict of interest is not considered disqualifying.
Source: Residential Tenancies Board disclosures
03
74–59
The vulture fund vote
The Dáil voted 74 to 59 to maintain stamp duty exemptions for vulture funds buying up Irish housing stock. The people most affected did not have 74 votes.
Source: Dáil Éireann record
04
2.7%
Ireland's circularity rate
Over 97% of materials flowing through the Irish economy come from virgin sources. The throwaway culture is not an attitude. It is a policy failure.
Source: Circularity Gap Report Ireland 2024
05
337–1
France's fast fashion vote
The French Senate voted 337 to 1 to introduce eco-taxes on ultra-fast fashion. Ireland has made no equivalent move. The ocean still fills with someone else's Temu haul.
Source: French Senate, June 2025
06
70M+
Irish diaspora globally
Seventy million people globally identify as Irish. Most were failed by the Irish language curriculum. None of them were offered the songs instead.
Source: Irish government estimates

Products that mean
something. Made
in Ireland.

Every Still Here product is the direct opposite of fast fashion, tourist tat, and institutional Irish identity. One thing, made with care, that lasts and means something.

001
Éirinn go Brách Guide
The words English cannot say. Fifteen untranslatable Irish words with pronunciation, history, and meaning. Free to download. Beautifully illustrated hard copy available.
Free Digital Get the guide
002
Browser Extension
Highlight any text on any webpage. Get the Irish translation, the cultural context, and the untranslatable words hiding in your sentence. Free, private, no account required.
Free Download extension
003
Townland Maps
Your townland. The specific piece of Irish ground your family stood on for generations. Printed on quality stock, ready to frame. The land that is still here.
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004
Resistance Prints
Constructivist-inspired prints in the tradition of political art that meant something. Irish history and identity with the weight it deserves.
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005
Sympathy Cards
Cards without a cross on them. Original photography of the Irish landscape. For the grief that doesn't fit the standard template.
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006
Memorial Restoration
Photograph and frame restoration for families around loss. Damaged images restored in time for the removal. The person, held with dignity.
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Fós anseo. Éirinn go Brách.
WE HAVE RESISTED.
WE ARE
STILL HERE.

Not the shamrock Ireland. Not the institution. The Ireland that survived in the songs, the language, the land, and the people who refused to forget.

Learn Irish the way
it was intended.

Every Irish person who sat through twelve years of compulsory Irish and came out unable to hold a conversation knows something went wrong. Not with them. With the method.

Irish survived colonisation, famine, and the systematic erasure of everything Irish because of song — not grammar books. Seán-nós singing. The oral tradition. The untranslatable words that carry whole philosophies in a single syllable.

Éirinn go Brách is the Irish language companion that meets people where they are — online, in the middle of reading something, not in a classroom — and gives them the cultural layer that every other tool leaves out.

Visit eirinngobrach.irish
Uaigneas
oo-ig-nus
Loneliness that is also peaceful stillness — English only has the pain.
Meitheal
meh-hal
Community coming together for necessary work — collective effort as love.
Saoirse
seer-sha
Freedom that was earned — liberation with the weight of history behind it.
Déoraí
dyoh-ree
An exile carrying home inside them — 70 million diaspora Irish.
Anamchara
an-um-khar-a
Soul friend — the person who sees your interior life and tends it.

Built in
Mullingar.
For everyone.

Still Here is an Irish creative brand built from Mullingar, Co. Westmeath — the midlands, not the coast, not the postcard.

It was built by someone who grew up feeling deeply Irish and found that almost nothing made for Irish people actually reflected what being Irish feels like — the uaigneas, the political anger, the dark humour, the meitheal, the complicated relationship with a language that was taken and returned half-broken.

Every Still Here product is the answer to a gap that shouldn't exist. The sympathy card without a cross. The Irish language tool that teaches through song. The photograph restored before the funeral. The frame that was worth fixing.

It is not a company trying to be Irish. It is Irish, trying to be honest about what that means.

  • Made in Ireland or not made at all
  • No tourist tat, no cartoon shamrocks, no performance of Irishness
  • The political is not separate from the cultural
  • Accessibility as a value — neurodivergent-friendly by design
  • The language belongs to the people who speak it

Get in touch.

For commissions, collaboration, press, or just to say something — the door is open.