- January 6, 2016Groined by deep glens and walled along the west by the bare hilltops and the tufted moors, this rim of…
- January 4, 2016The remote Cowal Peninsula is cut off from the rest of the country by the lengthy fjords of Loch Long…
- December 30, 2015To see the landscape of Tuscany for the first time is like looking at the Old Masters; only they have…
- December 16, 2015A market town on the River Suir, long associated with the Butler family, later Earls of Ormond. A priory was…
- December 14, 2015The Easter Rising of 1916 was a curious event, tiny in comparison with the rebellion of 1798, for instance, with…
- December 9, 2015Basking on the shores of Loch Linnhe amid magnificent mountain scenery, Fort William has one of the most enviable settings…
- December 7, 2015Loughside, mid-way up the western shore is Sketrick Castle. This large, four storey tower house guarded the causeway to Sketrick…
- November 29, 2015Kerry has a clean beauty of bone about it denied to the other more fleshy counties of Ireland, for although…
- November 26, 2015The roadless island of Canna is a moorland plateau of black basalt rock, just 5 miles long and 1.25 miles…
- November 22, 2015County Wicklow, with its moorland wastes and bare granite hills has a wealth of lovely valley, wooded glen, and smoking…