Irish Culture & Tradition

Bonfire Night

What memories are made of! Bonfire Night (or Bone-fire night, as my Uncle Harry pronounces it) is something that is etched in my memories from a child visiting Ireland in the summer right up to last year as I watched our niece and nephew stand in a field watching the “big big fire” be lit. When I was a child, we always visited Ireland for …

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Easter in Ireland

As many people know, the Irish are a very religious faith based type of people… and over the years that has changed a bit, but there is still something about Easter in Ireland and the observance of it. When we were younger we never visited Ireland during the Easter holidays, it was always during the summer or for Christmas.   Growing up in America there was …

Irish Culture & Tradition

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Some say Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, but I say St. Patrick’s Day is! I love St. Patrick’s Day! And so I thought it was as good a day as any to launch my new website for my travel business, Travents Ireland, and it was the perfect subject for my first “story”. St. Patrick’s Day in America I don’t really know …