TRIP SUMMARY:

The sites of Celtic Christianity is the focus of our ten day pilgrimage to Ireland which takes us to Dublin with its historic churches and treasures, the important Christian sites in the surrounding counties and then to the west of Ireland to Our Lady of Knock and the scenic beauty of Ireland’s Atlantic coastline. Along the way we visit some of Ireland’s most important early monastic settlements and places of interest.

TRIP DETAILS:

-Non Stop Airfare to Ireland

-8 Nights First-Class Hotel Lodging

-Dublin, Cork and West of Ireland

-Private Deluxe Motorcoach

-Daily Irish Breakfast and Six Dinner including Medieval Banquet at Bunratty Castle

-Daily Mass

 

TRIP HIGHLIGHTS:

DUBLIN

St. Patrick’s Church, Christ Church, the Anglican cathedral where Jonathan Swift was once the rector, the Whitefriar St. Carmelite Church containing the relics of St. Valentine, Dublin Castle, Norman in origin and formerly seat of the British rule in Ireland, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin’s center city park, and Trinity College and its library to see the famous Book of Kells.

 

HILL OF TARA

The seat of the ancient kings of Ireland where St. Patrick preached, and Drogheda where St. Oliver Plunkett was martyred and south to the famous monastic site of St. Kevin, Glendalough.

 

NEWGRANGE

In Dublin and its surrounding areas, we will experience the majestry and mystery of acient Ireland.

 

BOOK OF KELLS

View the Book of Kells, one of the great contributions of Celtic Christianity, and explore literary Ireland in the form of optional James Joyce walking tour of Dublin in the centenary year of Bloomsday, the day his famous novel Ulysses was set in Dublin

 

GLENDALOUGH

Celtic Christianity will again be our focus whe we visit Glendalough and Clonmacnoise, probably the two finest examples of monastic settlements in Ireland/

 

HILLS OF SLANE

Where St. Patrick preached on the Holy Trinity and converted the pagan Celts to Christianity.

 

OUR LADY OF KNOCK

In the west of Ireland, we will visit the shrine of Our Lady of Knock, site of the apparitions of Our Lady, St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist.

 

COBH

At the port of Cobh, in southern Ireland, we will visit the site where millions of immigrants left Ireland forever to venture into a new world, where the Titanic made its last port of call and where the victims of the Lusitania are memorialized.

 

BUNRATTY CASTLE

We'll experience what life was like in a 15th century castle when we visit and dine at Bunratty Castle on out final night in Ireland.