26 May Ireland Luxury Tours golf team
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26 May The Dubliners
A music group formed in O Donaghues music bar in Dublin in 1962...
24 May Belfast Wall Murals
These are political wall paintings and Belfast is famous for them. Belfast has a long tradition of Loyalist murals (loyalists are the group that want to remain part of the United Kingdom). The first one , painted in around 1908 , depicted the Battle of the Boyne...
20 May The Siege Of Derry (1690)
During the Williamite War, on April 18, 1690, Derry (Londonderry) locked out James 2 with cries of " No surrender!" thus beginning the siege. Major Baker (replaced after his death by John Mitchelbourne) and Reverend Walker took over the command of the thirty thousand civilians, mostly...
13 May The Legend of the Blarney Stone
For many centuries , as everyone knows , English monarchs tried to impose their will on Ireland. Queen Elizabeth 1 , eager to extend the influence of her government , sent a deputy to Cormac MacDermot MacCarthy, who was Lord of Blarney , and demanded that...
12 May Battle of Kinsale
This battle took place on 25th December 1601...
11 May Cruise ship in Belfast 2010
If you are coming to Belfast on one of the forty or so cruise ships due in Belfast this year...
05 May Irish Bogs
On any tour of Ireland...
04 May Pre-Christian Ireland (c.7000 B.C. – c. A.D.432)
On any tour of Ireland you will find yourself considering the history of the island. Lack of contemporaneous sources leaves us with little knowledge of the sociopolitical system of ancient Ireland. By analyzing the legendary history as found in later sources, a tentative reconstruction can be...
28 Apr County Kerry
Ireland Luxury Tours like to give potential clients as much information as possible to allow them to make informed choices on what they would like to see on tours of Ireland. This information on County Kerry is useful and interesting. Coastal county in the southwest of Ireland,...