Resonate • 22 April 2025

Protecting the Planet on Earth Day, and Every Day

On 22 April, 1970, founders of the modern environmental movement created and organised the very first Earth Day. Since then, the Earth Day Network — also known as EARTHDAY.ORG — has been mobilising over 1 billion people annually on Earth Day, and working every other day of the year to protect the planet.

Resonate • 17 March 2025

Ireland’s Hundred Thousand Welcomes

While the Emerald Isle is known for many things, its hospitality is particularly renowned. So much so, that the traditional greeting in Irish, céad míle fáilte, literally means ‘one hundred thousand welcomes'...

Resonate • 23 January 2025

The Many Delights of Travelling Light

When you fill a suitcase before travelling, you may be tempted to cover every eventuality. Rather than packing paraphernalia for each possibility, if you focus on tactics to take as little as you can, you’ll not only lighten the load you’re lugging but also be a more responsible traveller.

Resonate • 24 December 2024

Heading Home for the Holidays

It’s always good to see family and friends. For keen travellers, trips home are some of our best — but we can’t always make it back. Here, reflections on why the years we spend away make such journeys so valuable...

Irish Mail on Sunday • 15 December 2024

Revolutionary Times - Ireland's crucial formative years

What were the breaking stories in the 1900s? The Century Ireland online project – an historical newspaper with thousands of articles and hundreds of film and audio items – took its readers on a journey back in time, to revive the headline events of Irish life a century ago and to mark the Irish Decade of Centenaries, which took place from 2012 to 2023.

Resonate • 18 October 2024

Embracing the Best of the Season

In the modern world, unless you happen to be a farmer or food producer, it’s easy to get disconnected from what you eat. One former city girl tells of her experiences of getting the lay of the land in a new environment, finding a new focus on what’s in season and becoming attuned to the annual cycle of nature’s bounty.

Resonate • 19 July 2024

Travelling with Purpose and Intention

From language lessons to outdoor painting, pizza making to yoga practice; what’s your passion, and how can you pursue it through travelling?

Resonate • 25 June 2024

Our Editorial Journey: Helping Tell 100 Stories

Upon reaching the milestone of 100 stories, Resonate editor Emily Cathcart has been looking back at the many memorable pieces our storytelling platform has published. She’s also reminiscing about the equally memorable people we’ve met along the way.

Resonate • 24 May 2024

Choosing The Road Not Taken

Travel isn’t about ticking boxes. So why do so many follow the same well-worn paths year after year? It’s time to consider what overtourism means for destinations.

Resonate • 4 April 2024

Getting Full (Super)Market Value

A trip to the local grocery store in a new country can be an eye-opening (and eye-popping) experience. They not only show us how people shop but also give an indication of so many other things.

Ethical Norway • 25 March 2024

Finding Your Roots in Norway

How does someone born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, end up making her home in Oslo, Norway? Tricia Cantlon isn’t quite sure how it came about herself — it wasn’t a plan exactly, more the culmination of many wanderings. Now settled in the capital for several years, there’s nothing she enjoys more than showcasing her adopted country; especially to fellow Americans seeking their Norwegian roots.

Resonate • 14 February 2024

Loving Our Travel Misadventures

We can fall head-over-heels for the rosy travel pictures others paint; but how do we keep the romance going when things don’t go to plan for us in real life?

Resonate • 31 October 2023

Samhain: The Celtic Roots of Halloween

The shadowy intersection where the realms of the living and the dead meet looks different, depending on our cultural point of view. Folklore, religion and local customs will dictate how we honour our dearly departed. Even Halloween, wherever it’s celebrated, can take many forms. As its birthplace, Ireland has a particular claim to creepy fame.

Resonate • 26 October 2023

Mind Your Language: Bridging the Communication Gap

Anyone who has done a bit of travelling — and hasn’t mastered every language spoken on the planet — will have come up against the occasional inability to understand the local people, or to be understood by them. But even when it proves tricky, communication is still a powerful tool that unites us.

Generations — A Carlow Story of Family & Food • 19 October 2023

Finding magic in humble ingredients | Rachel Doyle

As the River Barrow meanders nearby, ornamental grasses wave in a light breeze while flowers gently nod their heads. Leaves rustle above, backlit into overlapping stained-glass patterns. A tour of the inspirational gardens at Arboretum demonstrates the role that nurturing living things plays in our wellbeing.

Generations — A Carlow Story of Family & Food • 19 October 2023

Picking the perfect baking apples | Caitriona Cullen

At the foot of the rolling hills of Hacketstown, beautifully bushy shrubs and leafy trees stretch to the horizon in neat green rows. Here at Cullen Nurseries, generations of talented growers have carefully nurtured and tended their crops from seed to maturity.

Generations — A Carlow Story of Family & Food • 19 October 2023

Highlighting homegrown produce | Emily Bunbury

Walk past the expansive lawns, up the steps, underneath the stone portico, through the front door (aha, there it is; at the side of the house) — and step into the past. Here since the mid-1800s, the flagstone floors under your feet have been smoothed by time and thousands of people moving through these rooms. The mingled scent of aged leather book bindings and cosy wood fires permeates the air, while the gleaming wood of ornately carved furniture invites you to sit, stay a while and snuggle into the velvet scatter cushions. Welcome to the home of William and Emily McClintock Bunbury and their family.

Generations — A Carlow Story of Family & Food • 19 October 2023

Inspiring a love of fresh fish | Sharon Smyth

Travel to the Slaney River Valley to visit Tullow, and you’ll find yourself in the midst of a rich agricultural landscape. Along the way, there are sites of great antiquity dotted amongst the fertile fields; mysterious remnants of times long past in the form of ancient stones and prehistoric ring forts.

Generations — A Carlow Story of Family & Food • 19 October 2023

Spending time in Nana's kitchen | Paul Fleming

One of the best things about travelling through Ireland's countryside is the charming little villages you'll inevitably encounter. The pace is relaxed, not much is needed here to get by; perhaps just a place of worship, a school, a post office, and a shop or two. Or maybe the post office is the shop. But at the heart of any quintessential sleepy village is the local café — a community hub providing enough tea, tasty food, and talk to keep villagers fed, watered and up to speed on local news.

Resonate • 29 September 2023

Keeping it Real: Authenticity in Travel Writing

“Be yourself – everyone else is already taken.” This ode to authenticity is quite clever, just the kind of thing a famous wit like Oscar Wilde would write, and a quick internet search turns up thousands upon thousands of results saying that it is indeed his. But there’s only one problem: we have no evidence he authored it.

Resonate • 24 August 2023

The Joys of Staying Close to Home

It might seem strange for the editor of a responsible travel platform to advocate less travel at times — but by sticking close to home, we discover that the small worlds around us can be at least as rewarding as any great adventure or grand tour.

Resonate • 9 August 2023

Sausages and Shamrocks: A Full Irish Breakfast

[co-writer/uncredited] It’s Sunday morning in Ireland: I’m awakened by the smell of something delicious happening in the house, as mouthwatering breakfast aromas float down the hallway and up my nostrils. There’s definitely a fry in my near future. I jump out of bed drawn by that intoxicating prospect, already salivating.

Resonate • 26 July 2023

Have We Lost Our Cool When It Comes to Travel Hotspots?

Searing heat waves have been breaking all known high-temperature records in popular northern summer holiday spots. Is this finally the moment for us to reconsider our approach to travel planning?

We can no longer pretend that there isn’t a climate crisis, treating mass tourism to warm-weather destinations like business as usual...

Resonate • 28 June 2023

Leave No Trace

Dawn is breaking over the New Forest in southern England; we step lightly through the serene landscape, wanting to leave no trace of our having passed this way. It’s July, a warm morning with mist swirling in the rays of the rising sun, cuckoos calling, and spiderwebs glittering in dewdrop diamonds. As I walk with my companion, there’s a movement across the clearing and a small herd of red deer emerges from the trees.