What was once meant to be a silly, just-for-fun festival for redheads in Ireland and beyond has become an annual event. Started in 2010 by Joleen and Denis Cronin, The Red Head Convention has attracted a growing number of flame-headed folks to come out and compete for the festival’s crowning of the Ginger King and […]
Irish Filigree Work
Filigree is an unmistakable signature of jewelry that has been crafted with painstaking precision. To say filigree has been around for a few centuries would been an underestimate. This type of jewelry design has been in force for over three thousand years. The design did not develop or even start out in Ireland. Filigree started […]
Top 10 Ways You Know You’re a Lover of Ireland
Do you qualify as a real hibernophile? To test how much you love Ireland, match up your common thoughts with these ten signs of Irish fever. The true Ireland lover day dreams about living in the Irish countryside or downtown Dublin. You may regularly watch “The Quiet Man” or “Riverdance.” Do you wish you had […]
Top 10 Food and Drink in Ireland
Aside from its rolling green hills and powerful seas, the delicious food and drink in Ireland are what call to some visitors. According to National Geographic, the top ten Irish food and drink attractions are farmhouse cheese, seafood, smoked salmon, lamb, bread, tea, craft apple juice and cider, new Irish gin, microbrews and Irish Whiskey. […]
Ireland- A Golfers Paradise
Ireland is not called the Emerald Isle for no reason. The rolling hills and beautiful scenery of green are also full of beautiful golf courses. 350 eighteen hole courses cover the country. While some are hidden in suburbia, others are next to wonderful natural sites. Some of Discovering Ireland’s favorites include Portmarnock Gold Course in […]
Rules of Ireland’s Roads: Give Way to Cows!
If you’re looking for the quintessential Irish experience during your next visit, you may not be able to seek it out yourself. While you choose to pose with a Guinness in a cool dive bar or to hike up the sea cliffs, in Ireland, the cows choose you. It is not uncommon to be winding […]
Dublin: World’s Fifth Friendliest City
Dublin was recently named the fifth nicest city in the world. The accolade was decided by the readers of Conde Nest Traveler, a high end American travel magazine. To welcome the news was Tourism Ireland’s Chief Executive Niall Gibbons. He said “Again and again, our research shows us that the friendliness of our people is […]
Waist High Snowfall in 822 Led to Irish Famine
In 822, a great winter came to Ireland- a winter so strong and cold it caused a famine according to Francis Ludlow, a Yale Historical Climatologist. Ludlow told Irish State TV RTE that the weather was a major factor in the famine which followed the intense winter. He used information from the medieval history manuscript […]
Beans On Toast – An Easy Lunchtime Staple For Irish Moms
In America, we have PB and J. In Ireland, they have Beans on toast. According to the Irish American mom, this affordable and tasty dish was a staple of her childhood. Some put cheese in between; others put a fried egg oozing over the top. Still some slide a little butter on the bottom of […]
Property for Sale
Ah Ireland. It is beautiful and tranquil. It is filled with so much history that is almost hard not to absorb it all. For those who reside in the Republic, they may be used to their surroundings much like I was accustomed to the French and Spanish architecture of New Orleans from the 1700 and […]