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Well, thank goodness for that! In 2007 we up sticks and moved our family from urban Dublin to a beautiful rural location in County Cavan. Many thought we were mad, but we can honestly say it was the best move for our family. The lifestyle in Cavan gave our children and ourselves a super living environment. In 2014 I left the corporate world and set up Irish Pens with Catherine so we could work together, making a living using our hands, hearts and heads. With the support of our worldwide client base, Irish Pens has enabled us to achieve many of our work-life balance goals. Now in 2022, it’s time for another change! We love our work and the place...

A short video of the Aurora forest in county Wicklow in Ireland where Irish Pens have planted new native Irish trees on behalf of our clients, a portion of the sale from every pen Irish Pens make is used to plant a sapling via the Tree Council of Irelands tree sponsorship programme. A pen is gifted and an Irish tree is born. Every little bit helps as they say!    

When we started the business I'll be honest everyone thought and some said it was just a hobby and world probably go nowhere, they could have been proven to be correct, but thanks to Cathy's support and faith in me we have grown together the hobby into a wonderful little business.  We enjoy the interaction with our clients, whether it is providing a special gift to themselves or for those special to them. To know that a pen we craft will be presented as a special birthday, anniversary, graduation or wedding gift in places all around the world is a very rewarding feeling for us both.  "Tree" Earlier this year we applied to trademark the Irish Pens "Tree" and we...

The clients of Irish Pens from around the world and of course from here at home have sponsored another 3 native Irish trees planted on their behalf by the Tree Council of Ireland in Ireland's garden county of County Wicklow.  In the woodland forest of Aurora three new sapling are planted and start their new life in Irish soil, over the coming years they will grow stronger and taller absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere for growth, converting it to sugars and wood and releasing pure oxygen back to the atmosphere every day while our clients who planted them go about their daily lives in the knowledge that in a little part of Ireland they have done a little bit to...

I want to share with you a video about the woods we use in our handmade writing pens, the woods we use are from fallen trees or trees that have had to be cut down for safety reasons. But our most popular woods like Bog Oak and burled elm are from tree that fell in the case of bog oak thousands of years ago and our burled elm is over 30 years sitting in the store room of a retired clock maker. Our Oak comes form many different locations such as the Phoenix park in Dublin, presented to us by the OPW, we used that wood to make a pen for our current president. We also have Oak from the...