by IveraghHistoricalTours | Nov 30, 2020 | Blog
The beautiful old Cable Station building on Valentia Island has found a new lease of life and is returning to its former use – a hub of global communication. The launch of Kerrys’ flagship BCP or Broadband Communications Point took place on October 16th 2020 at the...
by IveraghHistoricalTours | Jun 30, 2017 | Blog
The Skellig Rock is like the Grammy Award winning Rock Star, the Oscar winning A-lister and the Olympic gold medallist of the 100m sprint. All rolled in to one. Which can be annoying at times especially if you were at school with her. Envy aside now that we have all...
by IveraghHistoricalTours | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog
As an outsider living in the Kingdom of Kerry for the last 21 years I have always enjoyed the creative sayings that Kerry people use and their unique turn of phrase. South Kerry of course has its own particular suite of phrases. For visitors to the Skellig Coast who...
by IveraghHistoricalTours | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog
A long time ago, the courageous pioneers of Christianity went far far away to the raw edge of the known world, to an isolated rock defiantly rising out of the Atlantic Ocean, to reach out to the Kingdom of God, to their higher self, to find inner peace. The Monks...
by IveraghHistoricalTours | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog
At the heart of every epic story there is a champion, a character who sets out to achieve an impossible task. They persevere despite the side line comments ‘you’ll never make it; this is pure madness; you will surely fail’. And then when they have met the inevitable...
