Table of Contents

Colour section: colour map; where to go; when to go; things not to miss. Basics: getting there; red tape and visas; information, websites and maps; insurance and health; costs, money and banks; getting around; accommodation; food and drink; communications; the media; opening hours and public holidays; festivals and entertainment; sports and activities; crime and personal safety; travellers with disabilities; directory. Guide - Dublin: highlights; arrival; information; city transport; accommodation; College Green and Trinity College; Grafton Street; national museum; St Stephen's Green; Merrion Square; national gallery; Temple Bar; Dublin Castle; Chester Beatty Library; the liberties; Kilmainham; the northside; the outskirts; restaurants; pubs and bars; live music venues; clubs; theatre and cinema; gay life; shopping; listings; travel details. Guide - Wicklow and Kildare: highlights; the Wicklow Mountains; Powerscourt House; Roundwood; Glendalough; Wicklow Coast; Blessington and Russborough House; Maynooth; Castletown House; Kildare Town; The Curragh; the Bog of Allen; canal country; South Kildare; travel details. Guide - Laois and Offaly: highlights; Portlaoise and around; Abbeyleix and around; Slieve Bloom; Mountmellick, Portarlington and around; Tullamore and around; Clonmacnois; Banaher; Birr and around; travel details. Guide - Meath, Westmeath and Longford: highlights; Bru na Boinne; Slane and around; Navan and around; Kells and around; Tara and around; Trim; Mullingar and around; Northern Westmeath; Uisneach to Athlone; Goldsmith country; Longford and around; travel details. (Part contents)

About the Author

Margaret Greenwood has been visiting and writing about Ireland regularly since the early 1980s. Geoff Wallis is a freelance writer who has been contributing the Rough Guides for over 20 years and is also the co-author of the Rough Guide to Irish Music.

Reviews

"No other guide to Ireland offers the detail and the insight offered by the Rough Guide." A reader from Northern Ireland, amazon.co.uk 13 August, 1999; "A good guide to the Ireland of today, discerning and frank." Irish Independent.