A small country with a big reputation, helped along by a timeless, age-caressed landscape and a fascinating, friendly people, whose lyrical nature is expressed in the warmth of their welcome. Everywhere you go Ireland's history presents itself, from the breathtaking monuments of prehistoric Ireland at Brú na Bóinne to the fabulous ruins of Ireland's rich monastic past at Glendalough and Clonmacnoise. Braving the raging Atlantic on a crossing to Skellig Michael or spending a summer's evening in the yard of a thatched-cottage pub, one will experience an Ireland that has changed little in generations, and is likely the Ireland that one most go to see.
This book is my attempt to capture and translate the diversity and beauty of this country as I experienced in the summer of 2013.