Ferries to Ireland
Ireland If you love history and culture, language and tradition, health and hospitality, entertainment and excitement, apart from the unmatched pleasures and panoramic sights of Nature’s bounty, come to Ireland. This is an island country that offers the tourist an amazing array of wonderful things to do and gorgeous places to see. Go on a trek to its hoary hills and lofty mountains, land a plentiful catch on a fishing trip to its fascinating waters in the lake country, play a refreshing game of golf on one of its famed courses, lap in the visual delights of its many a picturesque landscape in the hill county, haunting boglands, or lowland habitats, or do whatever else pleases your heart. Ireland, known as the motherland of scholars and saints, has produced world-renowned writers including WB Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Bernard Shaw, James Joyce and Oscar Wilde. Famously known international pop singers and rock bands such as Sinead O’Connor and U2 were born in this historic land where people have an inborn love of literature, poetry, music and the fine arts. A member of the European Union since 1973, the Republic of Ireland, also known as Éire, has emerged from a predominantly agricultural economy into a highly advanced, modern and techno-savvy Celtic country. With a total land area of 70,000 sq km, Ireland has a population of 4.2 million, a third of which lives in the capital city Dublin. English and Irish are the official languages, and Euro the currency. The Irish parliament has two houses–the lower house Dáil with 166 members and the upper Seanad with 60 members–elected once in five years. Ireland has a tricolour national flag featuring white, green and orange. The people of Anglo-Norman and Gaelic descent are represented by green while orange symbolises those with the Protestant lineage of William of Orange. White signifies the harmony and lasting peace between both. Much of interior Ireland is made up of low-lying farmlands sprinkled at random with small hills, lakes and bogs. To the west lie the coastal mountains, some of them as high as 1,000 metres. More About Ireland
