- April 29, 2016Aran Island, also known as Aranmore with its lighthouse (originally of 1798, but replaced in 1865) on its north-west point,…
- April 26, 2016The 5 miles of coast between Arisaig and Morar is a fretwork of rocky islets, inlets and gorgeous silver-sand beaches…
- April 21, 2016County Kerry, with Killarney and its lakes, contains the most celebrated, and consequently the most visited attractions in Ireland; the…
- April 17, 2016The Isle Of Skye (an t-Eilean Sgiathanach in Gaelic) takes its name from the old Norse sky-a meaning “cloud island”,…
- April 11, 2016Carrickmacross, a broad and pleasant market town on the extreme east of the region in County Monaghan, was famous for…
- April 6, 2016Quintessential Highland country such as this, marked by single-tracked roads, breath-taking emptiness and a wild, fragile beauty, is a rarity…
- March 31, 2016Floating off Scotland’s remote northeast coast, the Orkney and Shetland Islands are captivating archipelagos forming an antithesis to modern urban…
- March 23, 2016O’Connell Bridge, named after the founder of Irish nationalism, Dan O’Connell, the Liberator (who’s statue by Foley, appears on the…
- March 21, 2016Glendalough (“glen of the two lakes”), an early monastic settlement in a cup of the Wicklow Mountains is impressively lonely…
- March 14, 2016Gay sunlights o’er the hillocks creep And join for golden weather, - A scythe-sweep, and a scythe-sweep, We mow the…