- August 28, 2018Rathlin Island is situated off the north coast of Ireland, and is the only inhabited offshore island in Northern Ireland.…
- July 29, 2017The rivers have carved deep valleys through the Antrim Mountains to the sea. Celebrated in song and verse, the Glens…
- May 19, 2016Leaving the Causeway, turn inland to Bushmills, noted for the “Old Bushmills” Whiskey Distillery. This had a license to distil…
- January 6, 2016Groined by deep glens and walled along the west by the bare hilltops and the tufted moors, this rim of…
- November 1, 2015The traditional prophecy, attributed to St. Columbia, that “a stranger mounted on a white horse and bearing a shield of…
- October 28, 2015Dunluce (Dun Lios, the Fort of Enclosures) an Anglo-Norman castle build by Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, about 1300,…
- October 7, 2015The quiet coastal road which climbs up from the bay and village of Cushendun has its little hair-raising hills…
- February 26, 2015Fortresses In Ireland At almost every turn in the Irish countryside there are remnants of ancient forts, some now reduced…
- January 12, 2015A short boat trip away from Ballycastle harbour is Rathlin Island, said in legend to have been dropped into the…
- October 8, 2014‘Switzerland in miniature’ is how the English writer William Thackeray described Glenariff in 1872. Of all the Antrim glens, this…