Synopses & Reviews
- Frommer's Ireland features gorgeous color photos of the sights and experiences that await you.
- London-based husband and wife team, Christi Daugherty and Jack Jewers, have been exploring the back roads of their ancestral homeland, Ireland, for years. They'll tell you the smartest way to experience major attractions such as Giant's Causeway, Newgrange, and Skellig Michael, but they'll also clue you into dazzling country roads, prehistoric ruins without signage scattered in farm fields, and lively little music bars where most of the regulars speak Gaelic.
- They’ve checked out the best hotels, guesthouses, restaurants, and pubs in person, and their authoritative, candid reviews will help you make choices that suit your tastes and budget.
- From popular tourist destinations such as Dublin and the Ring of Kerry to less-trammeled regions such as Donegal and the North, Ireland will be more accessible and richer for visitors who follow our authors’ seasoned, perceptive, and adventurous suggestions.
- You'll also get up-to-the-minute coverage of shopping and nightlife in cities and towns; detailed walking tours; lively coverage of history and culture; accurate neighborhood maps; and advice on planning a successful family vacation.
- Frommer's Ireland also includes a color fold-out map.
Synopsis
Frommer's Complete Guides - IN FULL COLOR - America's #1 bestselling travel series
- More full-color guides than ever before
- Foldout maps in annual guides
- Outspoken opinions, exact prices, and insider tips
- International edition
Synopsis
Hundreds of color photos
Free pocket map inside,plus easy-to-read maps throughout
Exact prices, directions, opening hours,and other practical information
Candid reviews of hotels and restaurants,plus sights, shopping, and nightlife
Itineraries, walking tours, and trip-planning ideas
Insider tips from local expert authors
About the Author
Christi Daugherty is an expat American. A former journalist, she's the author of several travel books including
Frommer's Paris Day by Day. She also co-wrote
Frommer's MTV Ireland and
Frommer's MTV Europe. She learned everything she knows about Ireland accidentally, while getting lost repeatedly over the course of many years. She likes to think that she gets lost so you don't have to. These days she and her husband and co-writer Jack Jewers spend their spare time traveling around Ireland (she drives, he navigates) looking for new places to explore. She spends whatever time is left over writing unpublished mystery novels.
Jack Jewers has directed films for the BBC, reviewed publications for Time Out, and contributed to several guidebooks, including previous editions of Frommer’s Ireland. He also co-wrote Frommer’s Ireland Day by Day. Jack grew up listening to his great aunt's tales about living in Dublin during the Civil War. She once leaned out of a window during a late-night battle to tell the gunmen to keep the noise down—people were trying to sleep. Born and raised in England, Jack proposed to his Irish-American wife at a spa in County Kerry. She said yes. That spa gets a great review in this book.
Table of Contents
List of Maps vii
1 THE BEST OF IRELAND 1
2 IRELAND IN DEPTH 25
3 SUGGESTED IRELAND ITINERARIES 58
4 IRELAND OUTDOORS 82
5 DUBLIN 99
6 AROUND DUBLIN 200
7 WEXFORD, WATERFORD & KILKENNY 240
8 COUNTY CORK 288
9 COUNTY KERRY 340
10 TIPPERARY, LIMERICK & CLARE 392
11 GALWAY, WESTMEATH & OFFALY 446
12 MAYO, SLIGO & THE NORTH SHANNON VALLEY 494
13 COUNTY DONEGAL 530
14 NORTHERN IRELAND 562
15 PLANNING YOUR TRIP TO IRELAND 654
Index 674