- January 6, 2016Groined by deep glens and walled along the west by the bare hilltops and the tufted moors, this rim of…
- 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 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 22, 2015County Wicklow, with its moorland wastes and bare granite hills has a wealth of lovely valley, wooded glen, and smoking…
- November 18, 2015"Sing the peasantry and then Hard-riding country gentlemen" County Meath – known as “royal Meath” from its ancient connection…
- November 15, 2015Errigal (2466ft) is the tallest peak in the ice-carved Donegal Highlands. With its furrowed sides and the white screes of…
- November 1, 2015The traditional prophecy, attributed to St. Columbia, that “a stranger mounted on a white horse and bearing a shield of…