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IRELAND

editor — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 14:00:00 +0000

The Republic of Ireland has long been a good buy for tourists, offering accommodations from bed and breadfast to luxury castles and mansions. The country is an independent nation, not a part of the United Kingdom as is Northern Ireland. Not all the B & B’s are attractive, but some are served up in attractive farmhouses and Georgian homes left over from the days when the English built mansions with cheap Irish labor. Ashford Castle in Cong and Cashel Palace Hotel in Cashel, Dromoland Castle near Shannon and Killiney Castle Hotel in Killiney are bona fide castles or palaces converted

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Sights and Attractions in Ireland

editor — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 22:55:00 +0000

In the city center docks, major developments are taking place, which promise to offer Dublin the role of one of the great financial centers of the world. Last, but not least, let us not forget to mention the legendary pubs of Dublin, unequalled anywhere else in the world. The pub is the hub of society in Dublin, the neutral home-away-from-home where everybody feels equal and doesn’t have to consider the duties of being a host or a guest – and doing the washing up! Talks is all around you in the Dublin pubs; the writer V.S. Pritchett once described Dublin

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Travel to Ireland

editor — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 18:10:00 +0000

SIGHTS Casino Marino; Christ Church Cathedral (1038); City Hall; Custom House; Dublin Castle; Fitzwilliam Square, Four Courts; General Post Office; Grafton Street; Grand Canal; Guinnes Brewery (St. James’ Gate); Halfpenny Bridge; Heuston Station; Kilmainham Jail; Leinster House; Liberties; Mansion House; Market Arcade; Archbishop Marsh’s Library; Merrion Square – ‘The Doors of Dublin’; Mountjoy Square, National Gallery of Ireland; National Library; National Museum; Old Parliament House (College Green); O’Connel St., Phoenix Park (e. g. Dublin Zoo); Quays (walk along the River Liffey); Rotunda Hospital; Royal Canal; Royal Dublin Society (Ballsbridge, Dublin Horse Show in summer); Royal Hospital (Kilmainham); St. Patrick’s Cathedral

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Map of Ireland

editor — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 02:50:00 +0000

DUBLIN Ireland’s largest city (pop. Greater Dublin 1 million, Dublin City 502,000), the capital of the Republic, is situated on the east coast of Ireland, bounded to the north by the Howth peninsula and to the south by the promontory of Dalkey and Killiney Hill. The ancient (and still official) Irish name for Dublin is Baile Atha Cliath, which translated means ‘The Town of The Ford of The Hurdles’. The name Dublin itself comes from the Irish Dubh Linn which means ‘Black Pool’, a reference to the original settlement near the confluence of the rivers Poddle and Liffey. Dublin celebrated

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