The Solitary Walker

What's in a name? Well, quite a lot, actually ... The General Post Office, Dublin - one of the most famous and iconic buildings in ...

St Columba's church, Drumcliffe, lies a few miles north of Sligo, in the shadow of Ben Bulben mountain, and next to a busy main road...

It was somewhere near Matt Molloy's Bar  in Westport that I encountered 'Poppy' ... ... and later Seamus Heaney - well his p...

At the summit there's another pilgrimage station ... ... and the supposed site of St Patrick's bed. Even on the Camino I don...

As is the case with so many Christianly annexed sacred sites, Croagh Patrick was held in numinous regard long before the arrival of Christia...

Croagh Patrick ('Cruach Phádraig' in Irish, meaning 'St Patrick's Stack', also known as 'The Reek') is Ireland...

Lisdoonvarna, County Clare, holds a world famous Matchmaking Festival each September. Since it was only June and, anyhow, Carmen and I had, ...

A good puzzle would be to cross Ireland without passing a pub. JAMES JOYCE Ulysses There's so much to see and do in the Killarney Nat...