This is a museum of art and Celtic artifacts worth seeing on any tours of Ireland. Art historian and connoisseur John Hunt advised many collectors , including William Randolph Hearst. Hunt and his wife , Gertrude , also assembled their own eclectic collection of objets d'art , which...
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We have developed a new tour of Iteland for clients !!! SIX COUNTIES' CRAFTS AND CULTURE DAY 1 BELFAST Pick up from Belfast International Airport Drop at hotel (whichever one you think) and have lunch Coach tour of Belfast covering history, politics, culture, crafts. DAY 2 COUNTY ANTRIM Coast Road via Carrickfergus...
If you are on Ireland tours , then , when in Dublin you will see a statue of Molly Malone , and may even hear a song about her. It appears that Molly Malone is a real Irish urban legend. According to that legend she was the most beautiful girl...
Kitty O'Shea was born in 1845 ...
Irish Tower Houses are tall , often four or five-story castles erected in the fifteenth , sixteenth , and early seventeenth centuries. Affluent Irish landowners built these tower houses and defenses, status symbols, and homes for their families and retainers. Sparsely furnished within, the houses somtimes had an...
This is a Catholic pilgrimage long regarded as the most difficult pilgrimage in Christendom. A real hidden gem if you want to experience that sort of thing. It is a journey to Saint Patricks Purgatory , or Station Island , in County Donegal. If you are on...
The symbolic instrument of Ireland is the Harp...
Another unusual hidden gem for any Ireland tours. Kilmainham Gaol is in Dublin. It is a famous , or perhaps infamous , prison first opened in 1796. It was an ordinary prison , which also housed political prisoners such as the "United Irishmen" and "Young Irelanders". "Charles Stewart Parnell"...
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