Specialty Tours

At The Hidden Ireland Tours, we delight in designing a vacation or event around your special interest.

Painting
If your group is interested in painting or photography, we can arrange a week long workshop based on the Dingle Peninsula. We can provide the opportunity to paint or photograph, learn and play in teh unique light of the region, and to interact with the powerful inspiration of the area's nature and culture.

Cooking
The Hidden Ireland’s food tour begins at the world renowned, Ballymaloe International Cookery School on the south coast with dynamic instruction from the Darina Allen-led team of cooks and chefs. Then, it’s westwards into the heart of the region known as West Cork and the Slow Food culture of Ireland, taking time to explore the incredible nature and cultre of the area.

Golfing
Ireland is one of the world's great golf destinations where enthusiasts play wild links courses amidst coastal dunes and lavish parklands in the grounds of castles...Ballybunion, Lahinch, Tralee, Waterville, Portmarnock, The Druid's Glen, The K Club, Kinsale, Portrush, Royal Dublin, Killarney.

Fishing
On this small island of ours, the fishing is superb! In the lakes and rivers, the fly-fishing for trout and salmon is sheer magic. The
game-fishing for pike, bream and perch is the best in Europe! The surfcasting from our wild beaches is world renowned and then there's sea angling on the Atlantic itself for shark and more!

Fine Houses, Antiques & Gardens
Explore the heritage of Ireland's "big houses" in the company of
their owners and conservationists. Staying at some of these
mansions.

Literary tours
Explore aspects of Ireland's incredible literary heritage, from the pre-Christian oral traditions and mythologies, to the earliest Irish manuscripts and the great illuminated gospel Book of Kells, to the works and lives of Joyce, Yeats, Shaw, O'Casey, Wilde and more, including many contemporary Irish writers.

Spiritual Pilgrimages
Ireland's holy wells and grottoes, ancient circles and early Christian monasteries, holy mountains and trees dot the countryside and provide landmarks to many a soul-journey. We would be honoured to create a pilgrim journey for your group.

Birds and Wildlife
Off-shore colonies of puffins and gannets in the company of noted ornithologists, we will explore the wonderful habitats of the Killarney National Park with a park ranger and the amazing life of our coastal zones with a marine biologist.

Cycling
Dramatic mountain passes, quiet rural backroads, coastal paths
- on-road and off road, Ireland has magnificent biking!

Climbing
High places have inspired Con Moriarty from childhood and climbing has been his passion. Rock-climbing on wild Atlantic sea-cliffs or hiking and scrambling over Ireland's highest mountains. All levels catered for.

Genealogy tours
Assisting with the tracing of people's heritage in Ireland is always a privilege, reconnecting people to this place. We extend to you a very special welcome and invitation to re-trace the journey of your ancestors with us.

Other tours
Specialty Study Tours, Executive Training, Father and Son, Mother and Daughter.

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