This is the Burren, its name derived from the Irish word ‘boíreann’, which means ‘rocky place’. Here, over some 140sq miles in the north of County Clare, that comforting quilt of green is stripped ...

Though it looks forbidding, the Burren, where you can walk for hours among the rocks and valleys with only your thoughts for company, can be fertile ground for creativity. Mullaghmore, derived from ...

This St. Patrick's Day weekend, The Burren will host 12 special variety dinner shows with traditional Irish jigs, stories and dancing. The show has evolved from its origins. Ten years ago, The Burren ...

The National Famine Way is a 165km walking and cycling trail following in the footsteps of the 1,490 famine victims who left Strokestown on a forced emigration to Canada in 1847. The multi-layered ...

Examine the events that led to the Irish famine, setting a crisis into motion in Europe. Examine the social, political and economic conditions that allowed the Irish famine to occur, setting a crisis ...

Midway along Ireland’s Atlantic Coast lies the Burren, an otherworldly landscape whose mesmerising limestone formations have long shaped local history and culture and today bring in hikers, ...