Have you ever wanted to know what it’s like to live in a transparent bubble? Or read first-hand what the English thought of indigenous people in the South Pacific? What about gazing out over a band of cliffs, sculpted by the wind and sea, that contain 300 million years of fossilised history? This is Ireland as you may not know it, with the following tips on how to explore the island. 1. The Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare Famous for its abundant birdlife – the puffin parents push the younglings off the cliff and it’s literally “fly or die” – and for ferocious weather that has shaped the 300-metre-high cliffs for millennia.
The cliffs drew tourists to the area after the land owner, Cornelius O’Brien, built a tower (the first visitors’ centre) and picnic table near the edge of the precipice in the 1800s. He was known as a kind man who rented out his seaside residence to the wealthy but waived any rent for his workers during the potato famine of the mid-19th century..
