- March 21, 2016Glendalough (“glen of the two lakes”), an early monastic settlement in a cup of the Wicklow Mountains is impressively lonely…
- March 14, 2016Gay sunlights o’er the hillocks creep And join for golden weather, - A scythe-sweep, and a scythe-sweep, We mow the…
- March 7, 2016Narrow Water Castle at the bottle-neck of the Newry Water which runs into Carlingford Lough was built after the restoration…
- March 3, 2016Inistioge (“Teoc’s or Tighe’s Island”) is a most pleasant example of the little Irish village with church, cross, spirit-grocery, petrol-pump…
- February 25, 2016“Praise the beach when you come to it”, runs the Gaelic saying, and Rossnowlagh (the Wood of the Apples) is…
- February 11, 2016Mount Brandon, austere and impressive at all times, cloudy at most times, dominates Brandon Bay across whose waters the light…
- February 5, 2016On the road from Limerick to Killarney is Adare (Ath Dara, the ford of the oaks) on the river Maigue.…
- January 31, 2016It was in the Mournes I learnt that there is no better way to know the nerve of a mountain…
- January 21, 2016Ardmore, with its smooth beach, its colour-washed cottages and green fields is the pleasantest of places. It was once an…
- January 13, 2016The Custom House, erected between the years 1781 and 1791, at a cost of £546,000, is the finest public building…