Ireland Travel Bucket List

Roam cliff-lined coasts, lively pubs, and lyrical green countryside of Ireland

Visit Dublin, capital of Ireland. Explore Trinity College (home to the Book of Kells, a 9th-century illuminated manuscript), stroll through Temple Bar (historic cultural quarter with pubs and live music), see St. Patrick's Cathedral (largest church in Ireland, founded in 1191), and tour the Guinness Storehouse (seven-story experience on the history of Ireland's famous stout).

Stand atop Ireland's majestic sea cliffs

Visit Cork, Ireland's second-largest city. Explore the English Market (a historic covered food market operating since 1788), see the 19th-century St. Fin Barre's Cathedral (with its three spires and stained glass), and wander through University College Cork's campus (notable for its Gothic Revival architecture and the Glucksman Gallery).

Visit the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin, Ireland, and learn about the history and brewing process of the world-famous stout.

A planned Georgian town at the foot of Croagh Patrick, the pilgrimage mountain climbed barefoot every July.

Ireland's medieval capital: a Norman castle, St Canice's round tower and the Smithwick's brewery.

Ireland's oldest city, founded by Vikings in 914 and still cutting the crystal that carries its name.

The base for the Ring of Kerry, with Killarney National Park, its lakes and red deer next to town.

King John's Castle on the Shannon and the Milk Market, in the city of Angela's Ashes.

A fishing town of pubs and trad sessions at the end of the Dingle Peninsula, the westernmost point of Europe.

Lakes, oak woods and Muckross House below Ireland’s highest mountains, explored by jaunting car or bicycle.

Scenic loop of coast and mountains.

Lively harbour city of music and pubs.

Medieval cathedral, round tower and Cormac’s Chapel crowning a limestone outcrop where St Patrick baptised a king.

Lean backwards over a drop from the castle battlements to kiss the stone that grants the gift of the gab.

A 2,500-km coastal route from Donegal to Cork past cliffs, surf beaches and pubs with sessions every night.

Slea Head’s cliff-edge road, beehive huts, Gaelic-speaking pubs and Fungie-era dolphin lore on Ireland’s far west tip.