Savoring Handmade Chocolates Just Off Ireland’s Ring of Kerry
Heading around the Ring of Kerry and want a diversion? Especially one that is delicious? Might I recommend the Skelligs Chocolate Company… We headed on a slight...
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Three More Celtic CDs You Should Know
Side by Side by The Kane Sisters The air fairly crackles when Liz and Yvonne Kane get together to play their fiddles. That’s something ace box player Sharon Shannon...
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#106 Touring the NEW Waterford Crystal Factory
The city of Waterford has a new sparkling gem to celebrate its crystal-making history. The new factory and visitor centre, called The House of Waterford, has just...
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An Evening at the Bunratty Castle Medieval Banquet
The allure of a Medieval Banquet in a 15th Century Irish castle, like the one at Bunratty, has kept the County Clare landmark a preferred stop for travelers to Ireland...
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Best E-Guidebooks for Ireland Travel
My carry-on just got a whole lot lighter now that I won’t need to carry a single printed book for my trip to the Emerald Isle. Whether you favor the Kindle, Nook, iPad...
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Whatever Part of Ireland Figures in Your Travels & in Your Dreams, There’s Sure to be Music in It
Submitted by Kerry Dexter – Musical stories that came to him while watching two friends walk down the walk, while waiting for a session to resume, and while...
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A Taste of Ireland’s “Haunted Ground”
Book review submitted by Kim Hathaway Haunted Ground When farmers cutting turf in an Irish peat bog make a grisly discovery, the perfectly intact body of a young woman...
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Frommer’s Ireland Day by Day – Guidebook Review & Giveaway
When I’ve talked about guidebooks in the past, I’ve put them into three categories: text-heavy reading material, picture-heavy dream books and the hybrids that try to...
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Book Review & Giveaway: Venetia Kelley’s Traveling Show by Frank Delaney
Submitted by Kim Book Review: Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show by Frank Delaney I was delighted when the Irish Fireside offered me an advance copy of Frank...
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Eileen Ivers Goes “Beyond the Bog” and Arrives at the Heart of the Irish Diaspora
“With Irish music, you’re cryin’ one minute and then you’re whoopin’ it up and bein’ joyful the next minute. We’ll be playing some really heart wrenching...
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Ireland’s Real Castle Hotels
Elegant ambiance fit for a king, attentive but discrete service, gourmet food served with flair…all evoke images of being pampered in a castle hotel in Ireland. Some...
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The Wild Geese: Helping Gram Discover Mary Pat Kelly’s “Galway Bay” and Our Family History
Submitted by Kim from San Diego War battered dogs are we Fighters in every clime; Fillers of trench and of grave, Mockers bemocked by time, War dogs hungry and grey,...
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Best Celtic Music of 2009
Matt and Shannon Heaton – Lovers’ Well – songs and tunes which invite you to reflect on love as both fleeting and eternal Tommy Sands with Fionan and...
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Ireland’s Literary Revival
Today we’ve got a copy of R. Todd Felton’s book “A Journey into Ireland’s Literary Revival.” Filled with full-color images, this book...
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Tea at Josie’s
Tea at Josie’s is a guilty pleasure. The scones are homemade – light, flaky and fluffy. They arrive warm from the oven and dusted with powdered sugar. Add a layer of...
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