Ireland Shirt - a growing success story praised for their reflection of Irish heritage, pride, and values

An apparel company dedicated to delivering a clean, simple, back-to-basics shirt that positively reflects Irish heritage

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Ireland Shirt - An apparel company dedicated to delivering a clean, simple, back-to-basics shirt that positively reflects Irish heritage

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While companies such as Urban Outfitters©, Nike© and Ben & Jerry’s© are apologizing for their negative depiction of our Irish heritage, the guys who founded Ireland Shirt™ have received nothing but praise for their positive reflection of Irish heritage, pride, and values.

On July 30, 2012 Irish Central did a discovery piece on Ireland Shirt™, an apparel company dedicated to delivering a clean, simple, back-to-basics shirt that positively reflects Irish heritage, pride, and values, and that is comfortable to wear in any setting - the antidote to all of the mindless, stereotyped nonsense that most apparel makers push on Irish people. Recently Irish Central had a chance to check in with the Ireland Shirt guys.

At the time of the discovery story, Ireland Shirt™ was developing brand recognition with a fresh offering that was tapping into Irish pride by relying on the silhouette of Ireland for annunciation. We would always ask ourselves, "what do we like most when we think about Ireland?" says co-founder Jason Darby. "Invariably, the answers were always the rolling hills, the Irish coast lines, the lush green landscape, and the numerous geographic sites. The geography and the image of Ireland is her own brand to reflect Irish heritage, pride, and values. We developed the brand identity a bit more and really have never looked back from there."

The growing popularity of the Ireland Shirt™ line of clothing continues to surprise. "I would say our Facebook engagement always raises our eyebrows" commented co-founder Mike O'Brien.  "Our followers are so passionate about Ireland and we do our best to provide a social platform for people to share his or her views with their world."  Ireland Shirt™ has an interesting social strategy, aimed at cutting through the clutter of everyday apparel marketing.  "We like to think of ourselves as being innovative in the social space, mostly because we have to!" laughed Darby.  "We certainly don't have the advertising budget of the large apparel makers, but we recognize that we can engage people far beyond showing them how great they can look in an Ireland Shirt.  We are creating a 'social-fashion' hybrid where people can express their heritage with or without an Ireland Shirt purchase.  We mix subtle advertising into the content and we certainly hope people buy an Ireland Shirt product, but we also see value in providing a forum for people to celebrate Ireland within our social platform."

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