Ditch the Driving: Championing Car-Free Travel
Though car-free sceptics might feel a personal vehicle is a must to take them from door to door at a moment’s notice, there are many downsides to having a car as a visitor...
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Slow Down, What’s The Rush?
Do you tend to go on whirlwind trips, the kind where you’ve lost all track of where you even are, never mind what day it is? If that sounds like you… it could be time to slow down.
Protecting the Planet on Earth Day, and Every Day
On 22 April, 1970, founders of the modern environmental movement created the very first Earth Day. Since then, the Earth Day Network has been mobilising over 1 billion people annually, and working every other day of the year to protect the planet.
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'...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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