The conventional image of Ireland - of luminescent lakes, blue mountains, rock-strewn fields, bogs dark as sachertorte, and peasent cottages coated in generations of whitewash - simply does not hold here. This south-eastern cornerof the country is quite distinctive, due partly to topography and partly...
Ireland is the farthest outpost of Europe in the west. Isolated in ancient times from the rest of the continent - the Romans never even reached the island - Ireland, through commerce with Celtic British and Gualish scholars, developed its own culture and civilization, nost...
We at Ireland Luxury Tours like to suggest starting points to allow you to consider and create a tour of Ireland that appeals. Most of our American and North American clients fly into Dublin ...
Recently we took some clients on a wonderful trip along the Ards peninsula...
Our Luxury Irish Grand Tour offers you the chance to experience the best of Ireland. Travelling north, south, east, west and through the Midlands, our Luxury Irish Grand Tour guarantees an awe-inspiring range of sights and experiences that will make your visit to Ireland a...
It is not easy to resist the emollients of a city which erects in its main square a statue of a poet - and a little leprechaun of a fellow at that, of whom almost nobody has ever heard. Padraic O'Conaire once wandered around Connemara...
The best way to approach Dublin is from the sea, the route chosen by the Norse Vikings who founded the city almost twelve hundred years ago. The city sits plumb in the middle of a sweeping, open claw like bay stretching almost twenty miles from...
HA'PENNY BRIDGE , DUBLIN The iconic symbol of Dublin, the Ha'penny Bridge (offically Wellington Bridge after the 'Iron Duke') was opened in 1816. Cast at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire in England, the bridge acquired its unofficial monniker from the toll paid to cross the river - one old...
There's one fair county in Ireland With memory so glorious and grand Where nature has lavished her bounty On the orchard of Erins great land I love its cathedral city Once founded by Patrick so true And there in the heart of it's bosom Are the ashes of Brian Boru It's my own...
If you want to see the North coast out of a base , like Belfast for example , our tours are very different. Ireland Luxury Tours like to drive the coast road through Carrickfergus to Larne. Then on to Carnlough and a coffee stop at the Londonderry...