Where to Find Ancient Ireland
Date: 09/09/2007Dunbeg Fort is almost impossible to find without a detailed map of County Kerry or a grasp of the Irish language.
Read OnIreland Launches New Discount Scheme For Retirees
Date: 09/03/2007It’s official--a cup of coffee in Dublin is more expensive than a cup of coffee in New York, Paris, and London. Of course, this comes as no surprise to you.
Read OnUnlikely Dubliners
Date: 09/01/2007Twenty minutes after our arrival at Dublin airport Monday afternoon, we were introduced to the city’s traffic woes. Through the airport, into a taxi, then onto the M-50 motorway…only to be immediately halted.
Read OnA bite of bretzel brings back the past
Date: 07/23/2007It’s hard to resist the mouth-watering aroma of freshly baked breads, pastries, and muffins that drift past the door of the Bretzel Bakery in the cherry-colored building at 1a Lennox Street, Dublin.
Read OnCan You Turn an Irish Sheela-na-Gig Into a Multi-Million Dollar Business?
Date: 07/09/2007I’m sometimes asked what’s my most unusual collectible from around the world. That’s hard to answer, but two "treasures" make some visitors blush. They’re small stone reproductions of grotesque carvings called Sheela-na-Gigs.
Read OnTo Dublin's Fair City
Date: 07/07/2007Lief and I are reminding ourselves of this experience as we prepare to relocate in Ireland again…this time to Dublin.
Read OnWelcome to Elysium House
Date: 06/23/2007Nine years ago this month, I traveled with a group of International Living readers on a Discovery Tour to Ireland.
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