Ireland Luxury Tours

We enjoyed our trip through beautiful Ireland on 12th – 14th May 2011. Our trip took us from Dublin to Belfast, Craigavon and back again to Dublin and we visited nice places everywhere. The trip was organized by Ireland Luxury Tours and we felt as being on vacation. Everything was very well organized and we reached all [...]

On tours of Ireland you will certainly pass through Dublin. If you do , why not visit a real hidden gem….The Cathach It is Irelands oldest manuscript. Written around 600 , possibly by the hand of St Colm Cille. The Cathach ( or “battler” ) Psalter is now preserved in the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin. The enlarged initial [...]

Leabhar na hUidhre is the oldest surviving manuscript written entirely in Irish. An interesting thing to see on any Ireland tours. It si a bit of a hidden gem.  It gets its name “The Book of the Dun Cow” because , in the late Middle Ages , its vellum was thought to have come from a grayish-brown [...]

Lambey Island is a large island off the North Dublin coast. You will see it on a clear day when in Dublin on any Ireland tours. “Colm Cille” is said to have founded a church , of which no trace remains. Recent excavations have shown that the island was inhabited as far back as the Stone Age [...]

A hidden gem worth viewing on any tours of Ireland. It is an elegant processional cross, dating from circa 1125. The cross was commissioned by the High King ” Turlough O’Connor”  to house a relic of the True Cross , which was covered by a rock crystal at the center of one side. The shaft and undulating arms [...]

If you are in Dublin on Ireland tours then you may want an evening out. Ireland’s national theatre is worth thinking about. Considered one of the most prestigious theatre companies in the world , the Abbey is one of the important institutions to emerge from the Irish Revival of the late nineteenth century. In 1899 , Lady Gregory [...]