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Make the most of the city with Belfast TradFest
Traditional music fans are in for a treat as Belfast’s TradFest returns for its third incarnation this summer across all four corners of the city. Running from 27 July to 2 August, the festival is the only one of its kind in Northern Ireland and brings together both the Irish and Ulster-Scots musical traditions in […]
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Find your final season fix in the Home of Thrones !
As the race for the Iron Throne intensifies, and the white walkers approach, Game of Thrones® fans prepare for the climax of a TV phenomenon. Episode one of the final season of Game of Thrones® has ratcheted up the intensity of HBO’s epic fantasy tale, leaving fans eager for more. As the remaining episodes unfold, speculation […]
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May the 4th be with you on the Wild Atlantic Way
A fun-filled festival on Ireland’s stunning west coast makes a return on the most significant day of the Star Wars lovers’ calendar. Running from 3–5 May, this year’s ‘May the 4th Be With You’ festival will welcome Stormtroopers, Darth Vaders, members of the Rebel Alliance and anyone else who wants to dust off their lightsabre […]
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Five top spring things to do in Ireland
Crisp, pale-blue skies, bright sunlight and lengthening days form the perfect backdrop to a spring break in Ireland. In springtime, Ireland’s landscape moves out of the winter shadows and becomes a technicolour canvas crowded with yellow daffodils, green fields and budding trees. Here are five ways to make your own picture postcard memories. 1. Visit […]
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Hit TV show Derry Girls inspires a city and a mural
The historic Walled City of Derry~Londonderry now has another famous wall – a mural painted to celebrate the success of the sitcom Derry Girls. Northern Ireland’s second city is full of history, culture and music, with people who are friendly, fun and wickedly irreverent, as portrayed so successfully in Derry Girls. Since being added to […]
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Ireland’s Ancient East.
The Wicklow Mountains National Park is nothing if not varied. Here, rushing streams and purple mountains share space with bogland, stone bridges and green valleys. In one such valley – Glendalough (Valley of the Two Lakes) – a solitary 6th century monk, St Kevin, sought peace. …one of the most beautiful corners of the whole […]
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Game of Thrones ~ Trip Ideas
Trip idea: Game of Thrones® Home to more Seven Kingdoms locations than anywhere else in the world, Northern Ireland has truly earned its title as Game of Thrones® Territory Transport yourself to Westeros – travel through the bewitched forests and ill-fated camps of the Seven Kingdoms, experience Winterfell in the North, and the azure waters […]
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The Rising
To free their people from centuries of oppression, a young polio survivor and his old firebrand mentor plan a secret rebellion against the British Empire. Based on the true story of the 1916 Easter Rising Rebellion, ‘The Rising’ will be the first motion picture to dramatise the heroic story of a cultural revolution that led to […]
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Tourism Ireland wishes the world a Happy St Patrick’s Day
Tourism Ireland film celebrates the legacy of our patron saint and invites the world to visit the island of Ireland ~ Tourism Ireland has unveiled an online film for St Patrick’s Day 2019, to encourage prospective holidaymakers to come and visit Ireland this year. The story of St Patrick has fascinated the world for centuries. […]
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Luke Kelly
John Coll’s recently unveiled statue of Luke Kelly is now available in a maquette version, also by Coll, at The Kenny Gallery, Galway. This is a very special limited bronze edition of the new monument to Luke Kelly by artist John Coll. The wonderful life-size bronze of Luke Kelly is now sited in South King […]