Category: Ireland

Visiting Ireland for the First Time

Visiting Ireland for the First Time

I can’t deny that this article will be a defiantly British perspective on our neighbours. I can’t help but have a somewhat glorified and close to romantic view of Ireland, like some time-warped Victorian.  I arrived with the realist notion that it wouldn’t be true but also with the optimistic hope that it would be. [...]

July 5, 2011 | 9 Comments More
Photo of the week

Photo of the week

Gone are the days when walking in Belfast was as safe as being a crash test dummy, yet they are certainly not forgotten or to be forgotten. The clashes (officially named “troubles”) between mainly Catholic nationalists, mainly Protestant unionists, the IRA and the British Army began in the late 1960′s originating in the constitutional status [...]

September 5, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Photo of the week

Photo of the week

What would Dublin ( or Ireland) mean to most of us if there were no pubs or, worse yet, Guiness? Sipping a Guiness in any pud is the quintessential experience of Ireland, and there is a plethora of pubs to choose from.  Along Temple lane you will find all the pubs you  can hit in [...]

June 6, 2010 | 2 Comments More