Seaside villages, mountains and castles. There’s more to Dublin than its famed city. I thought I knew Dublin. I’ve spent lots of time in the capital and even accompanied friends from other countries on trips to tourist sites such as Trinity College and the Guinness Storehouse. Surely I’d seen all there was to see of Dublin’s fair city? On a recent trip, I realized how wrong I … [Read more...] about Dublin's Fair County
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Weekly Comment:
New Cultural Podcast Series in Celebration of Bloomsday
By Irish America Staff
June 16, 2016
June 16, 2016
A new podcast series released in conjunction with this year’s Bloomsday celebrations features interviews with Ireland’s leading cultural experts.
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Today, Cultural Roadmapp will debut Tripod, a series of three 10-minute podcast interviews with leading lights of Ireland’s cultural scene, to be hosted on SoundCloud. The series syncs with a three-week online celebration of Irish … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment:
New Cultural Podcast Series in Celebration of Bloomsday
Ashford Castle Is Named the Best Hotel in the World
Ashford Castle, a massive hotel located at the shores of Lough Corrib on 350 acres of verdant Co. Mayo land, has been prestigiously ranked as the best hotel in the world by Virtuoso, a luxury travel network composed of 9,000 global specialists. The award was given to the five-star luxury hotel at the Best of the Best Awards during Virtuoso Travel Week, a luxury travel show in … [Read more...] about Ashford Castle Is Named the Best Hotel in the World
Donegal Island For Sale
For €175,000, a little over $225,000 at the current exchange rate, a 96-acre island in Donegal could be yours. To put that price in perspective, that’s $30 per square foot – 1,230 percent less than Dublin’s reasonably affordable $369 per square foot, and nearly 5,000 percent less than the median price for an apartment (apartment!) in Manhattan ($1,482 per square foot). That … [Read more...] about Donegal Island For Sale
Mayo Brothers Selling
Checkpoint Charlie Shares
Through a series of debt purchases and security offerings, it turns out that one of the most iconic sites in Cold War relations is actually controlled by County Mayo developers Michael and Cathal Cannon, though not for much longer.
Checkpoint Charlie, on Friedrichstrasse in Berlin’s city center, was once the gateway between the American and Soviet sectors in the walled city … [Read more...] about Mayo Brothers Selling
Checkpoint Charlie Shares