Photo: Ian Capper / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival: How Ireland’s 160-Year-Old Singles Event Actually Works Today Every September, something improbable happens …
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Temple House, a 17th-century estate outside Ballymote in County Sligo, has been in the Perceval family since 1665 — a Georgian country house, a Knights Templar castle ruin and a 70-acre lake. A quiet corner of Yeats Country in Ireland’s northwest.
County Wicklow offers mountains, coastline, and fast DART access to Dublin. Here’s what living in the Garden of Ireland really looks like — plus get weekly Ireland stories free in our newsletter.
Whisky lover, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Forget the big-name Dublin distillery tours for a moment. Ireland’s west coast has become a serious destination for …
Colin Park via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) If you’re planning a summer trip to Ireland and wondering when to visit Kerry, circle August 14–18. …
Ireland’s bogs and wetlands cover one-sixth of the country and hold landscapes 10,000 years in the making. Here’s where to find the best of them and how to visit.
Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Great Blasket Island Caretaker Job: Why 23,000 People Applied to Live Off-Grid on a Remote …
From Dublin’s St Stephen’s Green to Galway’s Eyre Square, discover Ireland’s finest city squares and public spaces worth lingering in on a sunny afternoon.
Ireland’s shape is harder to describe than you might think. This practical guide covers the island’s dimensions, coastline, peninsulas, and the comparisons that actually help people picture it.