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Irish Music Tours

Traditional Irish Music – (Part 3)

The Curse of Cromwell and music in Protestant Ascendancy Ireland. The Elizabethan conquest and subsequent plantations were ultimately resisted in Ireland and in 1641 there […]

Traditional Irish Music (Part 2)

I begin every tour with a statement I was taught a long time ago. “Ireland is a country you feel, not understand” and I still […]

Traditional Irish Music

The history of music in Ireland can be traced back to ten thousand years ago. Musical instruments like trumpets, horns, rattles and pipes […]

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History, Public History and Story Telling

Tour guides are not historians. We do not work in that world. One of the great sayings of this business is ‘never let the truth […]

Training Tour Guiding Students

Always Learning

Tour guide students from Portobello Institute doing assessments during training for the National Tour Guide program On Being A Tour Guide The essence of all […]

Corca Dhuibhne Dingle The Three Sisters

Once upon a time, in a land far far away …

Everything has a beginning and for DMC Tours Ireland it was down on the Dingle peninsula that I began guiding in 1999. It turns out […]