In times past and just as much today, an Irish Halloween is a harvest festival celebrated with a feast for the family. With the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain falling on the last day of October an...
The world’s most famous vampire was the creation of Dubliner Bram Stoker, who was inspired by the city and Ireland’s tales of the undead. Born in Clontarf, Dublin in 1847, at the height of Ireland’s G...
Ireland isn’t short of a ghost or three, and Halloween is the perfect time for eerie encounters. Haunted houses, cursed castles and all manner of spooky spaces are to be found across the island of Ire...
One of Ireland’s most important cultural treasures has a new state-of-the-art home that enhances viewing and safeguards it for future generations. The famous ninth-century Book of Kells, housed in Tri...
Irish Fisherman’s Pie.. The perfect family meal using fresh fish! Ingredients 200g hake, skinned and boned 200g cod, skinned and boned 200g smoked haddock, skinned and boned 200g salmon, skinned...
Halloween is coming – but did you know it is Ireland we have to thank for the most popular customs and traditions at the most unearthly time of year? The Irish are famous for concocting a bewitching c...
A newly released Tourism Ireland video showcases the Northern Irish venue for the 148th Open Championship one year on. Twelve months on from Irishman Shane Lowry’s epic victory in The Open Champ...
From mystical stones to fairytale-like castles and gingerbread houses, Scotland simply oozes magic. Fire your children’s imagination when you take them on a day out to Scotland’s magical, my...
Crouching atop the crown of the Big Beehive, I gaze down 500 m (1,640 ft) to the turquoise waters of Lake Louise sparkling in the sunlight below. The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise stands sentinel at th...
