Take A Break from Stress and Plan A Trip to Ireland

Dance, Dance, Dance at Longitude Festival

If you love nothing more than to dance in puddles of mud while listening to live music from some of the most awesome bands on the planet, you need to get tickets to Dublin’s Longitude Festival as a priority. Every July, Marlay Park, one of the largest parks in the city, invites world music talent to its stages so that thousands of merrymakers can dance until dawn. Highlights from previous years have been Massive Attack, The Chemical Brothers, Phoenix, and Major Lazer.

Get to Grips with the Ireland’s Literary History

Dublin is world famous on the literary scene. Many Dubliners, such as James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and WB Yeats, have created some of the best loved works of literature ever written. To learn more about the Irish literary tradition, head straight to the Dublin Writers’ Museum. As you tour the 18th century mansion, you can explore the lives and works of the writers through manuscripts, personal letters, their personal objects, and their books. Guided tours are also available.

Ridea Horse at the Slieve Aughty Riding Centre

There are numerous ways to explore the beautiful countryside of Ireland, but none is quite as special as mounting a horse and viewing this green land on horseback. There are numerous places where you can take a horse ride in Ireland, but we are particularly fond of the Slieve Aughty Riding Centre, which is set across 17 acres of land in County Galway. Whether you want to book a scenic ride for the afternoon or stay for a while and have a horse riding holiday, the choice is yours.

Get Entertained at the Kilkenny Arts Festival

There are quite a few arts festivals dotted around the country during the year, but our favourite of these might just be the Kilkenny Arts Festival, which is hosted in Kilkenny in the middle of August each year. Founded in 1974 by a group of classical music enthusiasts, the festival now incorporates many kinds of performances and shows from poetry readings to contemporary dance, and everything in between. Performances are as likely to occur on the streets as in venues, and there is a parade through the streets every year as well.

Take the Angela’s Ashes

Walking Tour Before you visit Ireland, a must read is Angela’s Ashes, an autobiography of Frank McCourt’s life, which tells the story of how young Frank and his family tried to escape the poverty of pre-war Limerick. These days, you can actually step inside the book on a trip to Limerick by going on the Angela’s Ashes walking tour, a tour that will take you to the streets where Frank grew up, the school where he had his education, the pub where he and his family drank, and the People’s Park.    

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