DID YOU KNOW? 1. Many iconic buildings, monuments and attractions around the world turn GREEN for St Patrick’s Day! This year, in Canada, Niagara Falls, Toronto’s City Hall and Ottawa’s Museum of Nature will be green on March 17th. Other famous sites going green include the Pyramids of Giza, Christ the Redeemer in Rio, New [...]
Dubliners have discovered an ingenious way to banish the January blues with none other than a festival of knee slappin’ foot tappin’ fun at the Temple Bar TradFest (22 – 27 January). A jam-packed six-day programme promises over 200 free events and performances by some of the best known faces (and voices) in traditional music. [...]
Jennifer, a Canadian living in Derry~Londonderry and Director of Airporter wants to tell you about her city. Today marks the beginning of a new city. Derry~Londonderry will be the UK City of Culture for 2013 and the program of events has just been announced, and it is astounding. Events will cover music, drama, visual art, [...]
‘A pint of Guinness, please.’ It was the third time I’d witnessed a tourist approach the bar in Messrs Maguire’s and ask, in varying levels of English, for a pint of what is admittedly Dublin’s most famous export. In most Irish pubs, it’s a perfectly typical thing to ask. But Messrs is not most pubs. [...]
Did You Know? 1. The myth that Saint Patrick drove all the snakes from Ireland into the Irish Sea is indeed a myth. Ireland has no snakes, moles or gophers. After the last Ice Age 10,000 years ago Ireland was cut off from Europe and snakes did not make it across the land bridge in [...]
It’s St Patrick’s Day and naturally, you’ve thrown a party. The guests have chomped happily on Shamrock Salmon sandwiches and green soup. Now it’s time to add the cherry on top – literally! St Patrick’s Day is a day of celebration, of remembering and championing all those things that make Ireland great… we feel a [...]
That most green of parties is coming around again (St Patrick’s Day, for those living under a rock. On Mars.) So to help you celebrate wherever you are, we’ve selflessly eaten our way through countless recipes. Last year, we gave you typical savoury St Patrick’s Day recipes and suitably green drinks recipes. Now, it’s time [...]
You know us Irish don’t shut up, but you may not always know what we’re saying. The languages spoken in Ireland are Irish, Ullans and, of course, English. But not your typical English. In Ireland, we’ve taken the English language and moulded it around our requirements to what they call Hiberno-English. We’ve stretched some of [...]
North Mayo boasts Ireland’s newest National Park and hundreds of kilometres of trails, through expansive mountain ranges and unspoilt peatland habitats. There are also plenty of B&B’s in this part of Mayo, to experience firsthand, the warm and natural hospitality of the local people. The capital of North Mayo is Ballina, a picturesque and historic [...]
C’mere and we’ll let you in on something. We’re planning something big. BIG big. Something country-wide, year-long, larger and more ambitious than anything we’ve done before. We’re just trying not to focus on the clean-up. Ladies and gentlemen, let us be the first to invite you to The Gathering. We’re giving you plenty of [...]
