Author: podium

  • April 25, 2010
    Cookstown is famous for having one of the widest and longest main streets in Ireland and the street was part…
  • April 24, 2010
    Just beyond Queens University in Belfast are the Botanic Gardens. It is just one of the several attractive parks that…
  • April 22, 2010
    Every area of Ireland has its particular saint, as do more or less all days in the Irish calender. Apart…
  • April 21, 2010
    "In a  quiet water'd land stands Saint Kieran's city fair" are the poetic words used by the Offaly poet T W…
  • April 20, 2010
    Ireland became part of the expanding British empire at the beginning of the 19th century. In the meantime , between…
  • April 19, 2010
    Christopher Columbus really had very little claim to being the original discoverer of the New World. Prior to his geographically…
  • April 18, 2010
    When Ireland Luxury Tours have clients on the North Coast people are often puzzled and surprised to see distant mountains…
  • April 16, 2010
    Well the eruption in Iceland has now grounded all planes for 2 days now. The situation is being reviewed but…
  • April 14, 2010
    Although somewhat hackneyed nowadays , the term "Emerald Isle" is not without foundation. The fields , watered particularly in the…
  • April 13, 2010
    The well-known Irish ability to wax lyrical on just about any imaginable topic is often attributed to the 'Blarney'. Our…