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Field notes, location guides, and photography stories from across Ireland.
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One of the southwest of Ireland's most iconic buildings, Ross Castle is a tower house or fortified dwelling dating from the late 1400s and is typical of the architecture of the period - wealthy and powerful families...
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I was in Ballinrobe recently, a small market town in south Co. Mayo that had a population of 3,682 in 2011.
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In Ireland it would be easy to assume that the best sunsets are to be found on the west coast with the sun setting over the Atlantic.
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Ballymoe is a typical rural Irish village, a sleepy backwater, lying in the east of County Galway in the province of Connacht. It has developed around the traditional crossing point over the River Suck that forms the...
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The late night landscapes of County Kerry last week were the same colour as David Bowie's room - blue, blue, electric blue.
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On Christmas Day 2014, I took a swim for the first time at this famous location.
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You never know what to expect as an outdoor photographer here in Ireland.
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Connemara pony galloping across green fields in front of mountains, sea and sky in the west of Ireland.
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Spring is here and the colour that we see throughout the countryside is quite amazing.
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Hook Lighthouse is the oldest operating lighthouse in the world. The current tower dates from the early 1200s, it was built to safeguard the entrance to Waterford Harbour and provide assistance to ships heading for the...
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Landscape photography · Connemara, County Galway
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Dublin's parks are a great resource, I could bamboozle you with facts and figures but really the best way to find out about the capital's green spaces is to get out and visit some.
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Situated at the northern tip of the Fanad peninsula in northern Donegal, Ireland's most northerly county, Fanad Lighthouse is undoubtedly one of the most scenic in Europe.
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Ireland's Grand Canal runs from the Grand Canal Dock in Dublin all the way to Shannon Harbour in the west of Ireland, a distance of 131km. Begun in 1756 to carry cargo to and from Dublin it is now exclusively used for...
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As I write this I'm sitting in front of a warm fire with a cup of tea ready to do its job of warming me up from the inside.
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