Welcome back to #FailteFridays! While this is sadly my last blog to help guide you in Dublin, I saved the best for last. One of the most welcoming and incredible places in all of Ireland is the Guinness Storehouse. Imagine Disneyland but for adults, with beer!! This is easily my […]
Welcome back to #FailteFridays! If you’re looking for a place to run, relax, read a book, or just go for a stroll, check out Phoenix Park. It’s a 15-minute walk west of Dublin’s City Center and it’s the largest enclosed park in all of Europe! It has over 1700 acres […]
This week for #FailteFridays, we’re going to take a little break from history (well, mostly) and talk about the tourist scene in Dublin’s City Centre. When I first arrived in Dublin, the street names that I heard almost daily were Henry Street, O’Connell Street, and Grafton Street. It took me […]
In this week’s edition of #FailteFridays, we have Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland. My classmates and I took a weekend excursion up to Belfast to check out a few tourist and historical sites such as Game of Thrones filming sites, the Carrick-a-Rede Bridge, Bushmill Distillery, Titanic Museum, and the […]
Welcome back to #FailteFridays! Next up on our list of historical places to visit is Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. The location of the cathedral is important in two ways. First, the cathedral was built on the same site of a church that was constructed by the King of Scotland. […]