Ireland
Freelance photographer, author and journalist working in Ireland and worldwide.
Focus is on the scenic.
The world-famous Long Room Library in Trinity College, Dublin - 360-degree panorama / photosphere. The Long Room Library is rightly counted as one of the great, most beautiful libraries in the world, and is one of Ireland's most visited attractions.
Formal plans for a €1 billion innovation hub at Dublin's Grand Canal Docks have been published. The government will provide 15 per cent of the budget while the remainder will have to be raised from other sources including commercial investment, borrowing and philanthropy.
Have you spotted our Winter Lights around the city yet? Every evening, from sunset to 2AM, the city will be transformed, with custom projections and lighting displays. All 14 locations below will be illuminated from December 1st to New Year’s Day. City Hall, Dame Street, Dublin 2 Civic Offices, Wood Quay, Dublin 8 Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin 8 Covanta Dublin Waste to Energy Plant, Poolbeg, Dublin 4 The Custom House, North Dock, Dublin 1 The GPO, O’Connell Street, Dublin 1 The...
Where to find farmhouse fare, sourdough pizza, and craft beer in Ireland's original food city If you still believe Irish food is solely concerned with potatoes and porter, then it is fitting your re-orientation program should begin in Cork, long dubbed the "food capital of Ireland."
Travelers who fly in and out of Dublin often overlook Ireland's second city, but this southern settlement is well worth a full weekend of its own. While the "rebel city" is famously proud of its Irish heritage, these days you'll also find Asian, African and Middle Eastern outposts popping up along the River Lee.
Mr. Heltzel supervises the work and still makes changes to pieces himself from time to time. And his wife, Eva, models each one to ensure that it is comfortable to wear and does not snag clothing. Each of Mr. Heltzel's creations is years in the making.
Grafton Street, one of Dublin's main shopping thoroughfares, is a bustling pedestrian-only attraction, but most of its occupants - other than the homegrown luxury department store Brown Thomas - tend toward international brands like American Apparel, Disney and Ted Baker.
Over the past couple of years, ambitious chefs and independent entrepreneurs like Mr. FitzGerald, who trained under the acclaimed British chef Fergus Henderson before running the kitchen at the Harwood Arms, London's sole Michelin-starred pub, have flocked to this still-gritty neighborhood bordering the Grand Canal.
Think street art and Dublin, the Irish capital, doesn't spring to mind immediately, but the city has been undergoing somewhat of a transformation in recent years. No longer an underground activity, street art, graffiti, mural painting-call it what you will-has now become more than acceptable with businesses, arts organizations and Dublin City Council sponsoring and promoting artists.
Belfast is the capital city of Northern Ireland; home to 286,000 inhabitants (650,000 in the greater Metropolitan area). It is the region's economic powerhouse but remains a deeply divided city. An industrial city, Belfast was once given the title 'Linenopolis' as it was the largest producer of linen in the world during much of the nineteenth century.
A FATHER AND SON project leads to the repurposing of an old CHURCH with a JAPENESE INFLUENCE ... When Jimmy Armstrong came across Tattykeeran Church of Ireland in Co Fermanagh in 1996 it was in a state of considerable disrepair, having been built in 1841 and been out of use since 1984.
Darren is an Irish professional photographer specialising in art, product, architectural and travel/tourism photography. He has published a book called By Darren McLoughlin Portrait of Armagh and h is company Panoramic Ireland run one-to-one and small group photography tours and workshops in Dublin and across Ireland and Northern Ireland.
For centuries the scenery of Northern Ireland has been entertaining and inspiring visitors and locals alike, from Thackeray (author of Vanity Fair) who referred to the Glens of Antrim as ' Switzerland in miniature', to CS Lewis whose love of the Mourne Mountains was the inspiration for Narnia.
A popular place for picnics and walks, the rear wall and fourth tower were destroyed by Oliver Cromwell in 1650. At the opposite end of Kilkenny to the castle, St. Canice's dates to the 13th century with a round tower from the 9th century. The tower can be climbed and the cathedral is still in use.