Tours of Ireland Tag

Cave Hill rises to almost 370 metres above sea level. The slopes of Cave Hill were originally used as farmland but, from the 1880s, a major planting exercise was undertaken, producing the now familiar deciduous and coniferous woodland landscape. There are three large caves. The lowest is...

The Irish have always had a close relationship with drink.  Public houses or bars began as illicit drink shops or shebeens where people met to exchange news and drink poitin, a raw fiery spirit whose history is traced in John McGuffin's entertaining book In Praise...