High Island is home to 7th-century monastic settlement and thousands of birds

While we’re all familiar with high-profile places like Glendalough and Newgrange, there are 750 less well-known heritage sites around Ireland, all worth a visit. Here’s a taster of just a few of them

Luibin Garumna is a new trail that explores this less-visited Gaeltacht region

‘Song of Granite’ says as much about the experience of emigration as it does about sean-nós

Clifden Arts Festival also pays tribute to artist and writer Tim Robinson

Loch Con Aortha residents say they have given up hope of being saved as population plummets

Take the boreen over the bawn, and beyond the esker to the cladach

Michael Viney: Rare plants and fauna are a feature of Ireland’s hard-water lakes

‘The Dirty Dust’ and ‘Graveyard Clay’ offer insight into Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s romp

Alastair Cook’s 30th Test century gives tourists platform to push for win in Rajkot

Michael D Higgins says words used about migrants similar to those used during Famine

A chance to go back in time and explore the Burren’s monastic sites

Limestone formed when Ireland was still down near the equator, its deserts and dunes flooded by warm and shallow seas

Anglicising Irish words sapped them of meaning. Let’s reclaim our mother tongue so that it can cast its spell on us again

The shoreline of this Connemara bay boasts beautiful colours

The challenge in translating the greatest Irish-language novel is capturing something close to Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s linguistic energy in English

Time your visit to this mysterious tidal island with care

Robinson has won international acclaim for his detailed maps of Connemara, the Burren and the Aran Islands

Nicolas Fève’s new book of photographs is a response to Tim Robinson’s work on Connemara. This is one of several new essays the writer has contributed to it

Former Danish culture minister speaks of alternative models as part of Burren College of Art 20th anniversary

For the beach lover the boundary of land and ocean is more a state of mind than any line drawn in the sand

After a terrifying sightseeing flight in Peru, the prospect of viewing the Cliffs of Moher and Aran Islands from above is daunting