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...
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,...
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Every area of Ireland has its particular saint, as do more or less all days in the Irish calender. Apart from Patrick, Columba and Brendan, the best known, there are a number of others worthy of special mention here. Among them is St. Brigid founded...
Ireland became part of the expanding British empire at the beginning of the 19th century. In the meantime , between 1800 and 1841 , the Irish population increased rapidly , from a little over four million to around eight million. This was made possible by...
Christopher Columbus really had very little claim to being the original discoverer of the New World. Prior to his geographically confused explorations of 1492, and even before the supposed voyages of the Norsemen several centuries earlier, St. Brendan, another celebrated Irish saint, is said to...
When Ireland Luxury Tours have clients on the North Coast people are often puzzled and surprised to see distant mountains and islands on the horizon. Some believe it to be some remote part of Ireland and most are pleasantly surprised to learn it is indeed...
Well the eruption in Iceland has now grounded all planes for 2 days now. The situation is being reviewed but flights are unlikely until after 7.00pm Friday 16th April 2010. We at Ireland Luxury Tours have been lucky as all of our clients are here and not leaving...
Although somewhat hackneyed nowadays , the term "Emerald Isle" is not without foundation. The fields , watered particularly in the west by the high rainfall deposited by clouds arriving over the Atlantic , do have a deep green quality rarely seen elsewhere. A lot of...
One of the most enduring aspects of Irish folklore is the tale of the 'little people', or fairy folk. The leprechaun is in fact only one of a variety of different types of little people which inhabit the area just outside the peripheral vision of normal...