Ireland · County Clare
Cliffs of Moher
Ireland's best-known sea cliffs, 214 meters at their highest, on the Atlantic coast of County Clare. Here's how to see them without wasting the trip.
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The Burren, the old Irish stories, and the romantasy books that come from them.
These guides cover the Burren in County Clare, where our June 2028 trip is based, and the Irish myths and folklore that so much fae romance draws on: who the old gods were, where their stories are set, and what you can visit today.
We spend Midsummer week 2028 in the Burren with up to 15 women, reading fae romance and Irish myth together first. Midsummer in the Burren (Ireland), 17–25 June 2028 →
Ireland · County Clare
Ireland's best-known sea cliffs, 214 meters at their highest, on the Atlantic coast of County Clare. Here's how to see them without wasting the trip.
Ireland · Irish Myth
The main stories, the gods and creatures, who's who, the books worth reading, and the real places in Ireland where it all happens.
Ireland · Irish MythThe Tuatha Dé DanannThe old gods of Ireland, from their arrival in a cloud to their retreat into the hills, with Lugh, Balor and the Children of Lir.Ireland · Irish MythThe MorríganThe shape-shifting war goddess of Irish myth, from the medieval texts to Sarah J. Maas, and which of her symbols actually come from the sources.Ireland · Irish MythThe selkie mythSeal people who take off their skins on land, and the families on both sides of the sea who claimed them as ancestors.Ireland · Irish FolkloreFairies in Irish folkloreWho the "good people" are, why farmers plough around fairy forts, and what happened when a road met a fairy bush in Clare. Ireland · Romantasy
A checked list of romantasy books, with the author, the year and where each one sits in its series.
Ireland · County Clare
A limestone upland in north-west County Clare, with rare flowers, thousands of years of stone monuments, and a small national park. It looks bare from the road. It isn't.
Ireland · The BurrenPoulnabrone dolmenA Neolithic portal tomb on the limestone of the Burren, County Clare, where the remains of more than 30 people were found. It's older than Stonehenge's stone circle, and you can walk right up to it.Ireland · The BurrenAillwee Cave, Ballyvaughan, County ClareA show cave under Aillwee hill in the Burren, found by a farmer and his dog in 1944, with a Birds of Prey Centre on the same site. Good for a wet morning.Ireland · The BurrenBallyvaughan, County ClareA small village on Galway Bay at the north edge of the Burren, and the country house hotel 5 km to the south where we spend our week.Ireland · County ClareDoolin, IrelandA spread-out village on the Clare coast between the Burren and the Cliffs of Moher. People come for the music, the shortest ferry to the Aran Islands, and the walk to the cliffs.Trip announcements, curated reading lists, and the occasional dispatch — before anyone else.