Love Ireland

The Fleadh Cheoil is Ireland’s great music feast, where 400,000 visitors descend on one town each summer for sessions that last until dawn.

Biddy Early was Ireland’s most famous wise woman, a County Clare healer who used a mysterious fairy blue bottle to cure the sick, outfox the Church, and leave a legend that still haunts Kilbarron Lake.

Tory Island, nine miles off the Donegal coast, still elects its own king. Discover the legend, the cursing stones, and the painters no one expected.

Grace O’Malley commanded Irish seas, ran a pirate fleet from Clew Bay, and once sailed to London to negotiate with Queen Elizabeth I herself.

A 7-day Irish ancestry itinerary covering Dublin archives, your ancestral county, townland visits, graveyards, and Cobh — Ireland’s emigration heartland.

Ireland’s countryside hides hundreds of ruined mansions — grand Big Houses burned during the War of Independence and left to crumble for over a century.

If you sat down to breakfast in Cork City and something dark, soft, and round appeared beside your egg, you might ask questions. Most visitors …

The druids warned that if the fire on the Hill of Slane was not put out that night, it would burn for ever. This is what happened, and why it still matters.

Every September, thousands travel to Lisdoonvarna for Ireland’s matchmaking festival — a 200-year tradition of finding love with a matchmaker’s help.

Before dance halls arrived, rural Ireland gathered at crossroads every Sunday to dance and play music. Discover the vanished tradition of Irish crossroads dancing and the law that silenced it.