“High up on dangerous cliffs, out on lonely rocks, Irish lighthouses were built to last and most have stood for well over 150 years.” John Eagle is an artist, photographer and author of two books on Ireland’s lighthouses. Here he picks his six favourite lighthouses, and explains how he captured the stunning images of each [...]

Our young American friend, Sarah McNaughton, shares some tales from her three-day trip around Ireland’s southwest on the famous Paddywagon.

The Ring of Kerry is a stunning Irish coastal ring route and a national natural treasure. We found a man who knows the Ring as intimately as we know the drive home. Tour guide and general Kerry know-it-all John Hickey takes us on a detailed view-by-view tour of this enchanted stretch of Ireland’s landscape… Depart [...]

Countless castles pepper Ireland’s landscape, some so crumbled and barren it’s clear they’ve stood for hundreds of winters, and some so thick with hanging tapestries and the wafting smell of mead, you’d expect to see a King’s carriage in the carpark. Whether ruined or restored, you know those stone walls have seen some exciting things [...]

We asked green-fingered writer Fionnuala Fallon, author of The Urban Farmer for the Irish Times and proud horticulturalist, what the ‘must-see’ gardens on the island of Ireland are. Needless to say, it wasn’t an easy task. This is what she said: “Could you write just a few hundred words on gardens in Ireland?, I was [...]