Sailing in Baltimore | Jasper Winn | Ireland, Southwest (Kerry & Cork), Cork

Nigel was taking 'An Run' out for her 'shakedown' voyage - the first trip of the season. Tradition dictated that important equipment was forgotten and replacements improvised with string and bits of wood

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The Sheep’s Head Way | Rob Penn | Ireland, Southwest (Kerry & Cork), Cork

We timed it perfectly, arriving atop Seefin, the highest point on the peninsula, just as the golden sun touched the sea.

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Dublin | William Dalrymple | Ireland, East Coast Ireland, Dublin

Sometime in the late fifties, the Dublin writer Brendan Behan was having a drink in the Cafe Deux Magots in Paris when he got into conversation with an American literary critic…

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Dublin - A grouch on St Patrick’s Day | Anthony Healy | Ireland, East Coast Ireland, Dublin

Don’t get me wrong, I love Dublin. I love the way one can walk around the city. I love the fact that people still talk to one as if one is a human being. Dublin has its attractions

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Here's To the Much-Read and Long Dead | Bruce Holmes | Ireland, East Coast Ireland, Dublin

Eithne sings her opening lines with gusto, and hands on hips she asks: "What will you have?" The audience choruses, "I'll have a pint!"

And so Dublin's famous Literary Pub Crawl gets a roll on.

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A T-shirt from Dublin | Roger Starkey | Ireland, East Coast Ireland, Dublin

My friend's two-day tour of Dublin had been inadvertently planned such that each of the activities became increasingly hedonistic. Day one's tourist stops began with church visits and ended with a shopping trip on Grafton Street.

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Not a Pretty Face | Vitali Vitaliev | Ireland, East Coast Ireland, Dublin

If architecture is indeed a “frozen music”, Dublin's chaotic cityscape is an ear-grating cacophony, played by a madman

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Drinking in Dublin | Christopher Deliso | Ireland, East Coast Ireland, Dublin

Sunset is an elusive moment in this dirty old town

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The Land of Heart's Desire | John Borthwick | Ireland, East Coast Ireland, Dublin

Where else could you drive through a green-on-green landscape, looking for somewhere like Tubbercurry or Ballygally and end up instead in Ringaskiddy or Ballylickey – and not mind at all?

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The Aran Islands | Jeremy Seal | Ireland, Galway, Mayo & Connemara, Galway

'What fine weather you've brought,' marvelled the old-timer. A friendly cliche anywhere else, but on the little ferry to Ireland's fabled Aran Islands his words sounded almost literal

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