Dee ihe na-aga n'ihu maka paragraf a - Mgbe ọ kwagara County Limerick, O'Brien bidoro ịkwado ụlọ ọrụ lace Limerick dara ada. Ọ kpọtụrụ ndị na-arụ ọrụ lace n'ógbè ahụ, ma nye ha ihe ndị dị elu nakwa atụmatụ nke aka ya. Site na nke a, o mere ndokwa maka ire ọrụ ahụ, na-eji ndị enyi ya nọ na Dublin na London. O'Brien bụ onye bụ isi na ntọala nke Kọmitii Onwe Onye maka Nkwalite Irish Lace, site na nkwado nke Alan Cole nke Ngalaba Sayensị na Art, South Kensington na James Brenan RHA. Kọmitii a mere ka e guzobe ụlọ akwụkwọ ọzụzụ lace na Limerick na Mee 1889, na 1893 na arịrịọ nke kọmitii ahụ ọ weghaara ụlọ akwụkwọ ahụ. Mgbe ezinụlọ ya kwagara New Hall, nke dị nso na Ennis, County Clare, n'afọ 1890. N'afọ 1895, o guzobere Clare Embroidery, nke a na-agba n'ụlọ ya. Onye na-elekọta ụmụaka nke O'Briens, onye Scotland aha ya bụ Mina Keppie, nyeere ya aka na mbọ a, nke nwere ikike ịzụ ụmụ agbọghọ iri na ise n'otu oge. Azụmaahịa ahụ kwagara na ezinụlọ Ballyalla na 1898, na site na 1910 ha na-azụ ụmụ agbọghọ iri abụọ na asaa n'otu oge. Ha abụọ gosipụtara ọrụ ha na ihe ngosi nka na nka na Ireland, Britain, na America site na 1890s ruo 1920s. N'ime ihe ngosi ndị a bụ nke Royal Dublin Society, Arts and Crafts Society of Ireland, ụwa ụwa na Chicago na St Louis
n'afọ 1893 na 1904, na-enweta ọtụtụ ihe nrite. Na Lady Arran's Windsor sale na 1900, ma Queen Victoria ma adaeze nke Wales zụtara ihe atụ nke ọrụ ha.