Journal
Field notes, location guides, and long-form pieces on Irish landscape and photography.
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Guide
Before pumpkins lit up porches, Irish Halloween lanterns were carved from turnips. Behind the costumes, treats and ghost stories lies Samhain, the old Gaelic festival marking the beginning of winter.
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Photographed at Electric Picnic in Ireland in 2024 — this week she took Album of the Year in Newcastle for This Music May Contain Hope.
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Two fists on a Dublin wall, painted for First Fortnight — and a photograph found again while sorting old Lightroom folders.
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Autumn is here again in Ireland, and the countryside is beginning to take on those familiar shades of yellow, orange and gold.
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A return to Dun Briste, Mayo's Broken Fort sea stack, in stormy weather: the 350-million-year-old layers, a five-second exposure and wind from all sides.
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The Colombian Navy tall ship ARC Gloria was open to the public on Sir John Rogerson's Quay over the weekend of 3–5 October 2026 — her first Dublin visit since 1998. I went on board on her last evening in the city.
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Tripods rock in the wind, filters streak like rain on windows, and the Atlantic still offers a lot — if you can keep the spray off the lens.
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A weekend plan for the Galway International Oyster Festival, built from the published 2026 programme and from walking Galway with a camera.
Read MoreMedieval Dublin · The Liberties
Stand at the foot of Cook Street and look up. Rising above you is a stretch of grey limestone wall, worn, mossy at the joints, and almost impossibly old. Cut into its centre is a rounded arch, framing a stairway that...
Read MoreThe Great Irish Famine · County Mayo
At the end of March 1849, hundreds of starving men, women, and children made a forced overnight journey through one of the most beautiful and unforgiving valleys in the west of Ireland. Most arrived to nothing. Many did...
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There's a special feeling to standing on the edge of the wide ocean as cold winds whip off the crashing waves and you try to steady the camera, decide if it's worth using a tripod and keep everything clean and free from...
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I've often written about green lanes here on panoramicireland.com and really love finding new green lanes or green roads in the Irish countryside.
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2025 is drawing to a close as I write this and the first days of 2026 may see snow here in Ireland.
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The Irish countryside is usually a quiet place where little changes from year to year, but throughout history there have been many tumultuous events.
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Storm Bram may have passed through Ireland, bringing significant disruption and damage, but new wind warnings are now in effect for Galway, Mayo, and Kerry on Ireland's west coast.
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