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Always wanted to stay in an Irish castle? Believe it or not, you can do just that not only in Ireland, but in Mexico. Irish enthusiasts can check into a Cabo San Lucas inn that’s modeled after Ireland’s Blarney Castle.
In tough recession times both here and overseas, Ireland’s tourism may have slowed down, but HeritageIsland.com is providing travelers with guides and discounts to some of Ireland’s best historic and cultural spots.
Tom Deignan reviews a selection of recently published books of Irish and Irish-American interest.
Looking to save money on your vacation this year? Heritage Island is here to help!
Travelers have spoken, and several Irish sites have made the list of the Top 100 Greatest Places to Stand on the Planet. StoodThere.com has put forward 100 of “the World’s most wondrous, inspiring, or thought-provoking locations,” and has invited people to vote for the Greatest Place to Stand on Planet Earth 2009.
With video: In news that may come as a shock to few, but not to anyone who has given the matter any serious thought, the Blarney Stone in County Cork has been named the world’s germiest tourist attraction.
How does one try and visit all of Ireland in just two weeks? By cramming in as much as possible and hardly stopping to sleep! One American girl's first-time sprint around Ireland.
First, the "Taoiseach in the Nude" was Ireland's only truly naked problem. Now, a famed, or infamous, photographer who took pictures of thousands of naked people in Dublin and Cork last year is refusing an offer to exhibit the pictures in Ireland.
Having the good fortune to contribute photographs to Irish America, I would on occasion drop a not-so-subtle hint to editor Patricia Harty, that I was always available to travel to Ireland. As Irish luck would have it aided and abetted by Ms. Harty's generosity a spot was arranged for me on a very special trip: the Irish America/CIE Tour which took place this past October.
Dublin: The wind and rain lashed furiously on the tarmac at Dublin Airport, rocking our Aer Lingus Airbus like a gondola exposed to the elements on a mountaintop. We hadn't packed any sun block for this post-Christmas 2000 family trip to Ireland, but no one had told us we'd be landing in the monsoon season. It had proved impossible to land at Shannon Airport in the west, where the storm was said to be really raging.
The McCarthy clan traces its ancestry through an illustrious line of individuals and events reaching far back into ancient Celtic history and myth. The McCarthys claim descendants from the Eoghanachta, the rulers of the fifth province of Ireland, or Munster. The Eoghanachta were a people believed to have descended from Heber, the son of the mythical King Milesius of Spain.