If you want to get to know Ireland , there’s no better way than to do so behind the wheel. Driving past the country’s lush green fields, towering cliffs, and rugged coastline—with an inevitable detour to a local pub—is an experience that allows you not just to see, but truly connect with the heart of the country through its people. This is exactly what the co-founders of Stable of Ireland , Sonia Reynolds and Frances Duff, did 15 years ago, and in doing so had chance encounters that led them down a road to discovering some of the best Irish makers around the country. The windswept hills of Donegal, Ireland, which is home to an abundance of traditional textile weavers. Getty Traveling the length and breadth of Ireland—circling the lunar-like landscape of The Burren in County Clare and traversing the untamed countryside of Donegal —the pair encountered extraordinary people facing what had become an ordinary problem: the rapid disappearance of their craft.…