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Wander rustic towns, emerald valleys, lively cities, and moss-draped ruins: with Rick Steves on your side, Ireland can be yours! Inside Rick Steves Ireland 2019 youll find: Comprehensive coverage for planning a multi-week trip through Ireland Ricks strategic advice on how to get the most of your time and money, with rankings of his must-see favorites Top sights and hidden gems, from the Rock of Cashel and the Ring of Kerry to distilleries making whiskey with hundred-year-old recipes How to connect with local culture: Hoist a pint at the corner pub, enjoy traditional fiddle music, and jump into conversations buzzing with brogue Beat the crowds, skip the lines, and avoid tourist traps with Ricks candid, humorous insight The best places to eat, sleep, and relax with a Guinness Self-guided walking tours of lively neighborhoods and awe-inspiring sights Trip-planning tools, like how to link destinations, build your itinerary, and get from place to place Detailed maps, including a fold-out map for exploring on the go Useful resources including a packing list, Irish phrase book, historical overview, and recommended reading Over 1,000 bible-thin pages include everything worth seeing without weighing you down Annually updated information on Dublin, Kilkenny, Waterford, County Wexford, Kinsale, Cobh, Kenmare, The Ring of Kerry, Dingle Peninsula, County Clare, the Burren, Galway, the Aran Islands, Connemara, County Mayo, Belfast, Portrush, the Antrim Coast, Derry, County Donegal, and much moreMake the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves Ireland 2019.Planning a one- to two-week trip? Check out Rick Steves Best of Ireland.

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Rick Steves IRELAND 2019 Rick Steves Pat OConnor - photo 1
Rick Steves

IRELAND 2019

Rick Steves & Pat OConnor

Travel is intensified livingmaximum thrills per minute and one of the last - photo 2
Travel is intensified livingmaximum thrills per minute and one of the last - photo 3
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Travel is intensified livingmaximum thrills per minute and one of the last great sources of legal adventure. Travel is freedom. Its recess, and we need it.

I discovered a passion for European travel as a teen and have been sharing it ever sincethrough tours, my public television and radio shows, and travel guidebooks. Over the years, Ive taught thousands of travelers how to best enjoy Europes blockbuster sightsand experience Back Door discoveries that most tourists miss.

Written with my talented co-author, Pat OConnor, this book covers the highlights of the entire island of Ireland, offering a balanced mix of exciting cities and great-to-be-alive-in small towns. And its selectivethere are plenty of manor-house gardens, but we recommend only the best ones. Our self-guided museum tours and city walks give insight into the countrys vibrant history and todays living, breathing culture.

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We advocate traveling simply and smartly. Take advantage of our money- and time-saving tips on sightseeing, transportation, and more. Try local, characteristic alternatives to expensive hotels and restaurants. In many ways, spending more money only builds a thicker wall between you and what you traveled so far to see.

We visit Ireland to experience itto become temporary locals. Thoughtful travel engages us with the world, as we learn to appreciate other cultures and new ways to measure quality of life.

Judging from positive feedback from readers, this book will help you enjoy a fun, affordable, and rewarding vacationwhether its your first trip or your tenth.

Have a grand holiday! Happy travels!

Flung onto the foggy fringe of the Atlantic pond like a mossy millstone - photo 6
Flung onto the foggy fringe of the Atlantic pond like a mossy millstone - photo 7

Flung onto the foggy fringe of the Atlantic pond like a mossy millstone, Ireland drips with mystery, drawing you in for a closer look. You may not find the proverbial pot of gold, but youll treasure your encounters with the engaging, feisty Irish people. The Irish culturewith its intricate art and mesmerizing musicis as intoxicating as the famous Irish brew, Guinness.

The Irish revere their past and love their proverbs, such as When God made time, he made a lot of it. Ireland is dusted with prehistoric stone circles, burial mounds, and standing stones...some older than the pyramids, and all speckled with moss. While much of Europe has buried older cultures under new, Ireland still reveals its cultural bedrock. Its a place to connect with your Neolithic roots, even if youre not Irish.

The 300-mile-long island (about the size of Maine) is ringed with some of Europes most scenic coastal cliffs. Its only 150 miles across at its widest point. No matter where you go in Ireland, youre never more than 75 miles from the sea. Despite being as far north as Newfoundland, Ireland has a mild maritime climate, thanks to the Gulf Stream. Rainfall ranges from more than 100 inches a year in soggy, boggy Connemara to about 30 inches a year in Dublin. Any time of year, bring rain gear. As Irelands own Oscar Wilde once quipped, There is no bad weather...only inappropriate clothing.

Faces of Ireland now and then at Dublin Castle and the Giants Causeway - photo 8

Faces of Ireland now and then (at Dublin Castle and the Giants Causeway)

Though a small island, Ireland has had a large impact on the rest of the world. Geographically isolated in the damp attic of Dark Age Europe, Christian Irish monks tended the flickering flame of literacy, then bravely reintroduced it to the barbaric Continent. Ireland later turned out some of modern literatures greatest authors, including W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, and Oscar Wilde. In the 1800s, great waves of Irish emigrants fled famine and colonial oppression, seeking new opportunities abroad and making their mark in the US and beyond. (Every Irish family seems to have a relative in America; about 50 million people claim Irish descent in North America alone.) And although peace now prevails in Northern Ireland, the religious and political conflict there long held the worlds attention.

Northern Ireland (with 1.8 million people) is a province of the United Kingdom (like Scotland and Wales), while the Republic (with 4.8 million people and 80 percent of the land) is an independent nation. No visit to Ireland is complete without a look at both.

The Republic of Ireland boasts more sights, from the famous Book of Kells manuscript, prehistoric ruins, Celtic artifacts, and evocative monastic settlements to Iron Age ring forts. The country is bordered by green hilly peninsulas, craggy islands, and sheer cliffs rising up from the crashing waves of the Atlantic.

A ceilidh (KAY-lee) is an evening of music and dance...an Irish hoedownand can be one of the great Irish experiences. Youll find traditional Irish music in pubs all over Ireland. Sessions (musical evenings) may be advertised events or impromptu (and quality can be hit or miss), but either way things get going at about 21:30though Irish punctuality is unpredictable. Last call for drinks is just before midnight.

Pub music ranges from traditional instrumentals (merry jigs and reels) to ballads (songs of tragic love lost or heroic deeds done) to sing-along strummers. Sessions generally feature a fiddle, a flute or tin whistle, a guitar, and a bodhrn (BO-run, goatskin drum), sometimes joined by an accordion or mandolin. The music often comes in sets of three songs. The wind and string instruments embellish melody lines with lots of tight ornamentation.

Percussion generally stays in the background. The bodhrn is played with a small, two-headed club; the performer stretches its skin by hand to change tone and pitch. More rarely, youll hear the crisp sound of a set of bones: two cow ribs (boiled and dried) that are rattled in one hand like spoons or castanets, substituting for the sound of dancing shoes in olden days.

Watch the piper closely. The Irish version of Scottish Highland bagpipes, the uilleann (ILL-in) pipes are played by inflating the airbag (under the left elbow) with a bellows (under the right elbow) rather than with a mouthpiece. Uilleann is Irish Gaelic for elbow, and its sound is more melodic, with a wider range than Highland pipes. The piper fingers the chanter to create individual notes, and taps the chanter on his thigh to close the end and raise the note one octave. He uses the heel of his right hand to play chords on one of three regulator pipes. It takes amazing coordination to play this instrument well, and the sound can be haunting.

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