Everything you need to plan a trip to Ireland — the whole island, all 32 counties, in one free guide.
Most Ireland guides cover Dublin and the postcard stops on the Wild Atlantic Way and leave it there. This one doesn’t. The 2026 edition of The Ultimate Ireland Travel Guide is a complete, fact-checked, 100+ page guide to the entire island — Dublin, Ireland’s Ancient East, the Wild Atlantic Way, the midlands and lakelands, and Northern Ireland, county by county, with nothing skipped.
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What’s inside
This isn’t a repackaged blog roundup — it’s a purpose-built travel guide, organised the way you’d actually plan a trip:
- Before you go — passports, the UK ETA, money (euro and sterling), insurance, when to visit, packing
- Ireland at a glance — facts, culture, holidays, language, etiquette
- Getting there & around — every airport (including Belfast), ferries, driving, trains, buses, taxis
- Exploring Ireland — Dublin, the Ancient East, Cork and the Southwest, the West, the Northwest, and Northern Ireland, each with real places to eat, drink and sleep
- All 32 counties — what every single county does best, province by province
- Road-trip itineraries — a city break, a 7-day classic loop, a 10-day full-island drive, and Ireland on foot
- Where to stay — hotels, B&Bs, hostels, self-catering, castle stays, camping
- Food & drink — the classics, whiskey, stout and the pub
- Ireland on screen — the real filming locations you can visit
- Tracing your Irish roots — records, resources and citizenship by descent
- Speaking Irish — a phrasebook, Hiberno-English decoded, and what place names mean
- The outdoor island — golf, surf, greenway cycling, fishing, Ireland with kids
- Castles & ancient ruins — five millennia of stone, and how to visit
- Dublin on foot — three self-guided walking tours of the capital
- The Wild Atlantic Way, stage by stage — all 2,500km in six drivable stages
- Belfast & the North in depth — quarters, murals, day trips
- Music & the pub — sessions, instruments, etiquette, the best music towns
- The sporting island — GAA, rugby, racing, and how to get a ticket
- Essentials & links — a practical A–Z, emergency numbers, official resources
Why we built it this way
Ireland has five official tourism regions, and most guides only really cover two of them — Dublin and the southern half of the Wild Atlantic Way. That leaves the Ancient East, the midlands and lakelands, and the whole of Northern Ireland as an afterthought, if they appear at all. We rebuilt this guide county by county specifically to close that gap. If you’re planning to see more of Ireland than Kerry and Dublin, this is built for you.
Every detail — prices, opening hours, entry requirements — has been checked for 2026, and we’ll say so plainly where things change quickly and are worth confirming with official sources before you travel.
From the team behind Love Ireland — daily travel stories from the Emerald Isle, loved by 65,000 readers. Join the free newsletter at loveireland.substack.com.
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Charlotte gartland
Thursday 19th of February 2026
I would like a copy of the guide please
Patrick Maguire
Wednesday 1st of May 2024
Hi doing the full Monty tour next year for 7 weeks just like my school summer holidays down in Cape Clear Could do with a guide as it’s been awhile since I’ve been up country cheers
kerkhofs mireille
Saturday 13th of April 2024
Please e-mail the guide to me
Thanks in advance
Kaylene Kelly
Wednesday 10th of April 2024
Thanks
Tania Williamson
Monday 18th of March 2024
Look forward to receiving