https://www.hiberniatravel.com/blog daily 0.75 2026-06-16 https://www.hiberniatravel.com/blog/ireland-trip-april-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/685abef1c636ec14bc806a21/643931f0-1456-4f03-b219-c381dcf3bd00/Outside+Buswell_s+Hotel.jpeg News from Ireland - Ireland Trip April 2026 Our “Twentieth Century Irish History” itinerary focussed on Dublin and Belfast, with Robbie Campbell at Yellow Umbrella Tours (https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-campbell-26043b11a/) providing the bus to take us between the cities. Robbie provided background stories, especially after we crossed the Border and exited the motorway to continue our trip to Belfast. We then found ourselves criss-crossing the meandering Border on what Robbie described as an “unapproved road” during The Troubles - a road that the British Army routinely destroyed to control IRA movement in the region, and which the locals (and the Provisional IRA, PIRA) would then repair. 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I had visited some of the sites previously - Newgrange, Corlea Trackway, Kells, and Belvedere. I took the opportunity of mild weather to visit various sites in Counties Meath, Westmeath, Louth and Roscommon that spanned thousands of years of Irish history. From the Bronze Age megalithic sites at Rathcroghan to the medieval Old Mellifont Abbey to the Great Famine Museum at Strokestown House and the moving quiet of the Famine Graveyard outside Mullingar, (my home town and where my brother, Todd, still lives), I was stuck yet again by the remarkable span of history to be found across the Irish north Midlands and over the Shannon river.