For such a small country, the impact of Ireland on Western culture is enormous, from its literature to its pubs. The Irish people are stereotypically nice and I felt so completely at home there that I did not want to leave.

When I returned my rental car after driving around Ireland for two weeks, the executive who checked my vehicle joked that I had driven more than the size of Ireland. I carried two very different Irish books to read on this trip: Fintan O'Toole‘s ‘We Don’t Know Ourselves’ and a collection of Seamus Heaney’s poems called ‘Opened Ground’. I couldn’t have asked for better companions. The highlight of the trip was celebrating ‘Bloomsday’ in Dublin, for which I have uploaded a separate video.

Check out my photos from Ireland.