Ireland is awash with stately country homes, many of which, like The K Club, are now golf courses rather than private residences. Others, like Castletown
I’m a fan of old country manses. I like imagining life back then, upstairs rather than downstairs, of course. I have my favourites, Blenheim Palace
If you’ve any sort of an imagination and are a fan of TV series like Downton Abbey, and Upstairs, Downstairs, you’d have a ball doing
When you can’t travel forward, and you don’t want to stay where you are, the only way to go is backwards. I’ve been making the
Ireland has five official cities: Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, and Waterford. By official, I mean administrative. Kilkenny, usually referred to as a city, is an
I find it hard to pass an open door. There’s a curiosity about me that wants to know what’s inside. This was rewarded last week
Let’s just wander, I said. And see where we end up. We were headed to the IFC in Dublin’s docklands, down by the Customs House,
Visitors to Dublin can get caught up in the tide of tourists that flows around the hot spots like Trinity College and its Book of
I was baptised into the Catholic Church. And for the large part of my adult life (when I got to choose whether or not to
I tell myself that I only need a bed. A clean bed. And hot water. And a decent breakfast. I tell myself that I don’t
