12 May Battle of Kinsale
This battle took place on 25th December 1601...
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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,...
27 Apr Day tours out of Belfast
If you are on a cruise ship in Belfast...
22 Apr Ireland – A land of Saints
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...
20 Apr The Potato Famine
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...
19 Apr St. Brendan – First Man To Cross The Atlantic ????
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...
18 Apr Is that really Scotland ??????
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...