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See some samples of Personalised Street Signs

Below are some samples of our personalised street signs. These signs are a combination of aluminium and foamex material.  You choose the colour, look, material and name and we do the rest.

They are great as a gift for an anniversary, birthday, wedding or any occasion really.  Great keepsake for families  with ancestry ties to Ireland.  Cool sign for your pub or restaurant or shop!  The list is endless!

Let us know what street sign you would like. Shop

 

A famous U2 street in blue, new look text, on foamex material.

 

 

 


A family street name in blue, new look on aluminium material.

 

 

An historic street in green, old look on aluminium material

 

 

 

 

A black and white personalised fingerpost sign on foamex material.

 

Personalised Irish Street Signs

Are you missing home?  Do you want a reminder of your old street sign?  Are you trying to think of a unique personalised gift to send to family or friends abroad?  Well, here is a unique idea for you, a Personalised Irish Street Sign.  Put your old street name, town name, family name, or quote, Irish saying, you choose the wording, we will add the Irish translation, and send it off to wherever you want in the world.  If you like the old green look or the new blue look, you choose and put your street sign up in the kitchen, hall, pub, social club or the office.  Order Now!

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Personalised Christmas Gifts

What to get for the person who has everything? A Signs From Ireland personalised Christmas gift is the answer!

christmas-trees-wallpaper-freePerfect for men and women and ideal for a couple, it’s the most thoughtful gift and is sure to make you a very popular person! There are so many angles depending on the person’s connection to Ireland but the obvious ones are the birthplace or the location of the old family homestead, where they went to school or college, first job, where their partner is from, where the family grave is, where they’ve lived, the location of a memorable holiday …the list goes on!

Make somebody really happy today. Design your Irish signpost picture here.

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Where did it all go wrong? A recent history of Irish road sign design

Irish road sign design

Garrett Reil writes about Irish road sign design and typography.

http://www.garrettreil.ie/design-research-blog_files/the_origins_of_Irelands_road_sign_design.php

Garrett is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the International Society of Typographic Designers. He is a graduate of Limerick School of Art and Design and the National College of Art & Design in Dublin (MA).

He has worked in London and Dublin with leading international design consultancies. He founded Rain design partners in 1998 with Clíona Geary.

 

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Jamie Dornan always had the Holywood thing going on

Jamie Dornan always had the Holywood thing going on

Jamie Dornan’s personalized Signs from Ireland picture

JAMIE DORNAN

Fifty Shades of Grey star Jamie Dornan is from Holywood. Holywood, County Down, that is, a small town close to Belfast, Northern Ireland. Here’s his Signs from Ireland picture explained.

Vancouver Where Fifty Shades of Grey was filmed and where his daughter Dulcie was born just weeks into shooting the film adaptation of one of the biggest- selling books of all time.

Somerset Where he got married to his wife Amelia Warner.

Belfast Dornan played serial killer Paul Spector in the BBC drama set in Belfast The Fall, co-starring Gillian Anderson. It’s also where he went to secondary school – Methodist College . He boarded there following the untimely death of his mother from cancer.

London Where headed to pursue modelling in 2002, dropping out of a marketing degree at Teeside University in Northern England and where he now lives (for part of the year at least).