Ireland (2004): Tour to the West and South of Ireland

Dublin, Galway, Connemara, Moher, Dingle, Kerry, Cashel

• Amsterdam Schiphol (train) - Dublin (Aer Lingus).
  City tour: St Patrick Cathedral (with tombe of Jonathan swift, author of "Gulliver's Travels". or "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World" by Lemuel Gulliver - Christ Church Cathedral - Dublin Castle - Trinity College - Molly Malone.
• Clonmacnoise Monastery (by St Kieran, 545) - Galway.
• To Connemara with views to the Twelve Bens - Kylemore Abbey at lough Pollacappul.
• National Park The Burren - Black Head - Lisdoonvarna - Cliffs of Moher (yes, seen through a curtain of heavy rain) - Open Air Museum at the Castle of Bunratty with Irish Coffee at the pub Dirty Nelly - Limerick.
• To the Dingle peninsular - nature of Gaeltacht - Dingle - Slea Head - Gallarus-oratorium.
  
  In Anascaul the "South Pole Inn" was found, the home place of Tom Crean, Antarctic Explorer, 1877-1937.
  See the book by Michael Smith: "Un Unsung Hero -- Tome Crean - Antarctic Survivor", ISBN 1-903464-09-9, The Collins Press (search on author), Cork, 2000 (reprint 2004).
  
  
• The Ring of Kerry: Killarney National Park with prehistoric stone circle Kenmare and panoramic view at Ladies View - Muckross House (visit).
• Glengariff - boat to Garinish Island - Ilnacllin Garden - Whiskey distillery at Midleton (Jameson) - Cork.
  
  The Jameson family is related to Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) known from the first transatlantic telegraph station in 1907.
  Guglielmo Marconi was sun of Giuseppe Marconi and Anne Jameson, the granddaughter of the founder of the Jameson Whiskey distillery.
  
  
• Castle Cahir in the river Suir (known from King Brian Ború of Munster) - Rock of Cashel in the Tipperary plain with the ruin of a St Patrick Church; Cormac Chapel and Round Tower - Kilkenny Castle of the Butler family (counts and dukes of Ormond) - Carlow.
• Wicklow Mountains with monastery Glandalough (St Kevin) - Visitors center Brú na Bóinne at the Boyne river - Dublin.
• Dublin: Trinity College with Book of Kells.
  To Amsterdam Schiphol (Aer Lingus).

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