Rick Steves Ireland

Author: Rick Steves
Publisher: Rick Steves
ISBN: 1641712805
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 689

Book Description
From rustic towns and emerald valleys to lively cities and moss-draped ruins, experience Ireland with the most up-to-date 2021 guide from Rick Steves! Inside Rick Steves Ireland you'll find: Comprehensive coverage for planning a multi-week trip through Ireland Rick's strategic advice on how to get the most of your time and money, with rankings of his must-see favorites Top sights and hidden gems, from the Rock of Cashel and the Ring of Kerry to distilleries making whiskey with hundred-year-old recipes How to connect with local culture: Hoist a pint at the corner pub, enjoy traditional fiddle music, and jump into conversations buzzing with brogue Beat the crowds, skip the lines, and avoid tourist traps with Rick's candid, humorous insight The best places to eat, sleep, and relax with a Guinness Self-guided walking tours of atmospheric neighborhoods and awe-inspiring sights Trip-planning tools, like how to link destinations, build your itinerary, and get from place to place Detailed maps, including a fold-out map for exploring on the go Useful resources including a packing list, Irish phrase book, historical overview, and recommended reading Updated to reflect changes that occurred during the Covid-19 pandemic up to the date of publication Over 1,000 bible-thin pages include everything worth seeing without weighing you down Coverage of Dublin, Kilkenny, Waterford, County Wexford, Kinsale, Cobh, Kenmare, The Ring of Kerry, Dingle Peninsula, County Clare, the Burren, Galway, the Aran Islands, Connemara, County Mayo, Belfast, Portrush, the Antrim Coast, Derry, County Donegal, and much more Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves Ireland. Planning a one- to two-week trip? Check out Rick Steves Best of Ireland.

Enough Is Plenty

Author: Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 1848898908
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 182

Book Description
An emigrant to England in the 1970s, Felicity Hayes-McCoy knew she'd return to Corca Dhuibhne, Ireland's Dingle peninsula, a place she had fallen in love with at seventeen. Now she and her husband have restored a stone house there, the focus for this chronicle in response to reader requests for an illustrated sequel to her memoir, The House on an Irish Hillside. Enough Is Plenty celebrates the seasonal rhythms in and around the author's house and garden at the western end of Ireland's Dingle Peninsula. It is about ordinary small pleasures, such as the smell of freshly baked soda bread, that can easily go unnoticed, and offers recipes from Felicity's kitchen and information on organic food production and gardening. It views the year from a place where a vibrant 21st-century lifestyle is still marked by Ireland's Celtic past and the ancient rhythms of Samhain (winter), Imbolc (spring), Bealtaine (summer) and Lughnasa (autumn). In this way of life, health and happiness are rooted in awareness of nature and the environment, and nourishment comes from music, friendship and storytelling as well as from good food. * Foreword by Alice Taylor * Also by this author: A Woven Silence

The Dingle Peninsula

Author: Steve MacDonogh
Publisher: Brandon Books
ISBN: 9780863222696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255

Book Description
An intimate journey through the landscape, the past and the present of Ireland's beautiful Dingle Peninsula.

The House on an Irish Hillside

Author: Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1444730339
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
'From the moment I crossed the mountain I fell in love. With the place, which was more beautiful than any place I'd ever seen. With the people I met there. And with a way of looking at life that was deeper, richer and wiser than any I'd known before. When I left I dreamt of clouds on the mountain. I kept going back.' We all lead very busy lives and sometimes it's hard to find the time to be the people we want to be. Twelve years ago Felicity Hayes-McCoy left the hectic pace of the city and returned to Ireland to make a new life in a remarkable house on the stunning Dingle peninsula. Beautifully written, this is a life-affirming tale of rediscovering lost values and being reminded of the things that really matter.

The Dingle Peninsula

Author: Adrian Hendroff
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 1848895313
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 123

Book Description
The spectacular Dingle Peninsula in southwest Ireland extends westward into the Atlantic from Tralee to Slea Head. Voted among the Top 100 destinations in the world by TripAdvisor and referred to as 'the most beautiful place on earth' by National Geographic, its landscape includes soaring mountaintops, gentle hillsides, secluded lakes and valleys, ancient ruins, dramatic sea cliffs and long, sandy beaches. This guide takes you off the beaten track to explore this stunning landscape in a variety of walking routes ranging from short hikes to full-day treks. From the wild extremities of the Great Blasket Island to the majestic heights of Mount Brandon and the comfort of the Dingle Way, there's something for all tastes. Each route is prefaced with a reference summary and illustrated with maps and photographs. Route descriptions include GPS coordinates, navigation guidance, access notes and short variations. There is also material on the fauna, flora, folklore, history, geology and place names of each area. * For a complete list of walking guides available from The Collins Press, see www.collinspress.ie

The Dingle Way

Author: Sandra Bardwell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781898481331
Category : Dingle Peninsula (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Dingle Way runs 112 miles following country lanes, quiet roads and cliff-top paths, punctuated by long stretches of beach walking, seascapes and mountain views. The peninsula is rich in wildlife, archaeology and charming Irish pubs.

Twenty Years A-Growing

Author: Maurice O'Sullivan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1879941392
Category : Blasket Islands (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
This is the story of a boy's growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited, Gaelic-speaking island off the coast of Ireland. It tells of the simple life of a society that no longer exists, with a humor and poetry refreshingly remote from the modern world that replaced it.

The Islandman

Author: Tomás Ó Crohan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192812335
Category : Blasket Islands (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 287

Book Description
Tomas O'Crohan's sole purpose in writing The Islandman was, he wrote, "to set down the character of the people about me so that some record of us might live after us, for the like of us will never be seen again." This is an absorbing narrative of a now-vanished way of life, written by one who had known no other.

Pilgrimage in Ireland

Author: Peter Harbison
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815602651
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
This detailed account of Irish archaeological and archival evidence is presented in a clear and consise manner. There are chapters on cult objects, shrines, round towers, relics, Ogham stones, sundials, bullauns, cursing stones, and holed stones.

Dark Day on the Blaskets

Author: Mícheál Ó Dubhshláine
Publisher: Brandon Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
A compelling portrait of a young woman as well as an engrossing portrait of West Kerry at a turning point in its cultural history, Dark Day on the Blaskets weaves an intricate tale out of the intersecting lives of Eileen Nicholls, one of the finest scholars in the new national movement, James Cousins, a poet and playwright from Belfast, and his wife Gretta, who had been involved with the suffragette movement. Dubhnshlaine follows the intensely mystical month in the Great Blasket leading up to the discovery of Eileen's body, which was found off the coast of the island.