Galway Cultural Tours

08/11/2020

Dunsink Observatory in Dublin 15 was built in 1785 and is a unique part of the scientific and cultural heritage of Ireland. It has been home to many of Ireland’s greatest scientists, including Sir William Rowan Hamilton, and has played an important part in astronomical discovery and public engagem...

28/05/2020

09/02/2020

The Rose of Innisfree Tourboat is one of the highlights of the Yeats International Summer School Programme. It operates on the picturesque Lough Gill, in counties Sligo & Leitrim, Ireland. Experience some of the most spectacular scenery, spoken so fondly of by the poet WB Yeats, all from the comfort of this 72 seating magnificent vessel. Commentary on board. Full bar facilities available. Tea, Coffee & home baking a speciality. https://www.facebook.com/roseofinnisfree
https://www.yeatssociety.com/yeats-summer-school/

09/02/2020

New publising by esteemed authors .

Rosie Lavan is a guest speaker at this years Yeats International Summer School 2020. She is an Assistant Professor in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. Her first book, Seamus Heaney and Society, was published earlier this year, and she is currently working with Bernard O’Donoghue on a major new edition of Heaney’s poems for Faber. More broadly, her research interests lie in twentieth-century literature in Ireland and Britain, and its cultural, social, and political contexts.
https://www.yeatssociety.com/yeats-summer-school/lecturers-and-readers-2019/

19/11/2019

Som of the great sights on the west coast of Ireland .

23/10/2019

Is Galway city that good ?

Lonely Planet has named Galway as one of the top ten cities to visit in their Best in Travel 2020 guide! Galway takes the mantle of 2020 European Capital of ...

22/10/2019

The Cultural Tours have ended for 2019 , but will begin again in early April 2020 with new energy .

19/10/2019

During the Autumn/Winter Season we are running one tour a week on Saturdays. We will have 'Introducing Joyce's Dublin' and 'Dubliners' tours on alternate weekends. See our Tour listings for more details & how to book: http://ow.ly/d9Aj50wtisd

19/10/2019

The Marshall Plan was an example of "good deed foreign policy" designed to rebuild Western European economies in the wake of WWII. Subscribe for great HISTOR...

16/10/2019

Coole Park in Autumn with some great photos .

16/10/2019

Latin was part of our curriculum and now of legal importance too .

12/10/2019

The great songwriter and singer Bill Geoghehan

03/10/2019

The great video and hit song by Gavin James -Always .
now sung in french too .