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Hello and welcome to Ireland's hidden treasures. Todays episode was about the Guinness storehouse where I was fortunate enough to visit and attend the premium connoisseur experience.

If you want to book this experience please find below link (follow the link and click on premium experiences:

https://www.guinness-storehouse.com/en/booking

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Hello and welcome to Ireland's hidden Treasures, in today's episode I talk about the quite popular but still relatively hidden Aran Islands.

For those who haven't heard of the Aran Islands, it is a group of 3 islands located just off the west coast of Ireland.

The Largest of the three islands is called Inis Mor, the smallest is called Inisheer and there is also Inis Mann.

These islands are steeped in Irish culture, history, language and heritage being one of the few places where Irish is the first language, even taught first to children in school.

Accessing the Islands:

A great resource: https://www.aranislands.ie/plan-visit

I provide here below one or two options for accessing the islands too:

I personally visited the island of Inisheer, travelling with Galway tour company directly from Galway city. (bus to doolin and boat to the island) but you have other options as well. You can take a ferry straight from Galway city to the islands using Aran island ferries and you can also opt to take a ferry straight from Doolin (if you have a car)

Please feel free to comment and ask any question you'd like, I'm always happy to help.

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Hi and Welcome to today's episode of Ireland's hidden treasures. Today we did a really comprehensive tour of Ireland's very own wild Atlantic way.

If this episode brought you value, consider following the pod or getting me a coffee at:

https://buymeacoffee.com/irelandshiddentreasures

No obligation of course, all this information is given very freely and I love to share this with you all.

Resources promised in the episode can be found here:

Killarney National Park: https://www.nationalparks.ie/killarney/things-to-do/. 

Galway food tours :  https://galwayfoodtours.com

Ireland Wild escapes: https://irelandwildescapes.ie

Glenveagh National Park : https://www.nationalparks.ie/glenveagh/things-to-do

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Hi and welcome to this episode of Ireland's hidden gems.

Surrounded by mystery,  Spanish point is a great place to visit. It's a village named after the Spanish ships from the Spanish Armada that were shipwrecked there. Today's historians are still searching to find more evidence of what happened not only to the ships but to the sailors who were onboard. 

Today's episode took a bit of research which you can find the sources of, here:

https://heritage.clareheritage.org/places/reading-your-local-landscape/scariff-our-local-landscape/a-clare-mystery-brutally-executed-but-where-are-they-buried

https://www.thejournal.ie/spanish-armada-grave-2430435-Nov2015/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Point,_County_Clare

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Hello and welcome to Ireland's hidden treasures, in todays episode I walk you through the things you need to know before coming to Ireland. In essence, it's best to be prepared. The more prepared you are, the better trip and experience you will have.

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Today's episode is about Kilkenny. A city located in south east Ireland. A place which you should definitely visit if you're into castles , churches and in general, medieval history.

Known as the medieval town of Ireland, Kilkenny is definitely worth your time if only for a day, it doesn't disappoint.

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In today's episode we have a really special and unique castle hotel located in Mayo just off of Ballina. It honestly blew me away, especially the interior which was made by a navy officer by the name of Marshall Doran. Parts of the interior are made from actual wood from ships that Marshall Doran collected. 

The castle also serves as a hotel and does wedding events as well.

I hope you all enjoy this episode and stay tuned for more hidden gems of Ireland.

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