Brighten up your interiors with these lights designed in Ireland

Here are our top handmade picks for this season

Powder-coated metal plates with cut-aways are ultra-modern and inspired by Neptune, Mars and Jupiter, mullanlighting.com

Irish designers have been telling tales in light for decades, and some of our best and brightest offer modern classics at a very reasonable spend. Before you drift into a lighting design shop swinging with branded or often nameless products from overseas, take a look at just a little of what our home-grown luminaries have on show for the same price point (possibly even better).

“Storied lamps from forgotten wood” — a poetic introduction to Copperfish lighting, based in Co. Wicklow. Assembled from blocks of salvaged and storm-fallen timber, twisted by nature, time and various biological stresses, each lamp tells an imperfect Irish tale in a polished bit of timeless design.