Tuesday, 08 August 2023 22:31

National Heritage Week, Ireland 2023

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National Heritage Week, Ireland: 12/08/2023 - 20/08/2023 National Heritage Week runs from 12th-20th August 2023 and sees events in every county in Ireland. This year’s theme is exploring the traditions and practices, knowledge, and skills passed down through generations. Here are some of Panoramic Ireland’s picks for the week: ECO Inishowen: Celebrating locals involved in sustainability as well as the…
It’s coming up to Electric Picnic time again. Ireland’s largest music festival is set to return to Stradbally from the 1st to 3rd of September 2023 with a big line up featuring Billie Eilish, The Killers, Paolo Nutini, Niall Horan, The Wolfe Tones and Rick Astley among others. All tickets are sold out but you can still get to head…
Kildare Town I visited Kildare Town recently and the grounds of Saint Brigid’s Cathedral and round tower. See more about one of Ireland’s three patron saints, Brigid, here. Having recently read about a visit to Kildare by a descendent of one of its most famous citizens, William ‘Squires’ Gannon. Squires Gannon was captain of Kildare’s Gaelic Football team and won…
Dublin’s once famous Ormond Hotel featured in the Sirens episode of James Joyce’s famous Ulysses. Much changed during the 20th century after visits by James Joyce and his famous fictional character Leopold Bloom, the hotel became derelict in the early 21st century, over 100 years after Bloom made his journey across Dublin on 16th June 1904. The hotel was built…
Friday, 14 July 2023 23:30

Return to Dublin's Forty Foot

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I took a return to Dublin's famous swimming location, the 40-Foot or Forty Foot on Dublin Bay recently. Swimmers were braving the not-so-cold, but stormy waters of the Irish Sea south of Ireland's capital on Dublin Bay. A beautiful place to swim, to visit and to photograph I'm sure you'll agree. Here, one of my previous visits: https://panoramicireland.com/blog-ireland-guide/forty-40-foot-dublin-irish-sea-swimming
Many of us will know the Swan Hellenic name but few will know that it has been given a rebirth, in 2020, with three new ships and varied itineraries that cover the globe. The opportunity to learn, explore and in some cases contribute to knowledge is an important factor for many when choosing a holiday. Swan Hellenic have a long…
May is in my opinion the best month of the year in Ireland with fresh growth on trees and hedgerows, flowers in bloom including bluebells carpeting woodlands and hillsides all over Ireland just like in the image here. May is also the month of the Bealtaine Festival, celebrating arts and creativity for older people, a program of thousands of events…
A recent journey took me to north Tipperary and the town of Nenagh. It's a fine, large town, though not the largest in Tipperary, that accolade goes to Clonmel in the south of the county. Nenagh has a distinctive castle, or at least a tower - remains of the much larger original built around the year 1200 by the local…
Dublin's Docklands underwent significant, almost complete redevelopment in the 2000s with the biggest names in the tech industry still building and locating in the area today. Here in Grand Canal Square the public realm was designed by landscape architect Martha Schwartz and the choice of red paving blocks and these tall red glow sticks were designed deliberately to give a…
It's an exciting time here in Ireland, Saint Patrick's Day has just finished, the Irish rugby team won the Six Nations and remains at number one in the world. It is also the equinox, so we now move into the six months of the year when daylight is longer than darkness. And while there isn't much in the way of…
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