If you’re a fan of Celtic music and you’re free this weekend, you should make your way out to the Newport Celtic Rock Festival. The event, this Saturday August 23 at the Newport Yachting Center, will feature Gaelic Storm, Eileen Ivers, Black 47 and more. And you have a chance to get free tickets from the […]
Tag: news
Bringing Irish Heritage to Life in Kilkenny
Beginning this weekend on Saturday the 23rd through August 31st Kilkenny will open up its doors for the Kilkenny National Heritage Week. You and the family can learn about Ireland’s unique cultural history, ruins and folklore. Walk through ancient castles or sit around a craft table. Listen to folk tales mixed in with Irish history. […]
Prince Harry Invited to Red Head Convention
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 […]
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 […]