Travel Ireland

Moves into wilder territory: the fjords, cliffs, hills and islands of north-west Connemara, a place that Wittgenstein, who lived on his own in a cottage there for a time, called 'the last pool of darkness in Europe'.

The author, who established himself as Ireland's most brilliant living non-fiction writer with the two-volume Stones of Aran, moved from Aran to Connemara nearly twenty years ago. This book is the result of his extraordinary engagement with the mountains, bogs and shorelines of the region, and with its folklore and its often terrible history.

Big Trails: Great Britain & Ireland features 25 long-distance trails in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland, and includes a general overview of the trails, specific technical information, overview mapping, key information and stunning photography.

An enthralling account of a 2,300km walk from the North Sea to the Mediterranean following the GR5, the Grand Randonee Cinq. The route follows a network of old trails, forest and bridle paths, canal banks, alpine valleys and passes. The description includes the history of places passed through and memories of past adventures.

Nowhere in Ireland has such a diversity of walks as Killarney, walks that kings and queens, writers and international celebrities have come to make in the beautiful landscape Killarney is renowned for. This is a book to be used and put away, then taken out again, for the visitor to Killarney, having savoured its beauty, invariably returns.

A guide to 20 of popular walking routes on the MacGillycuddy's Reeks contains full-colour maps specially commissioned from the Ordnance Survey, photographs and map references. This guide also encompasses the history of the area, its geology and natural history, its place names and people. It offers useful information on travel and accommodation.

Walking has never been a more popular pastime and nowhere is more beautiful for walkers to explore than Ireland.

An invaluable resource for peak-baggers, summiteers and hillwalkers alike, for the first time the lists of Irish Vandeleur-Lynams and Arderins are published, along with lists of Ireland's 27 County High Points and the island's Hundred Highest mountains, using updated information compiled by the MountainViews community.

Scrambling is a hands-on sport and without the stop-start of rock climbing, the joy of it can be appreciated more freely. Here, Alan Tees guides mountaineers to exhilarating scrambles in the most beautiful parts of the northwest of Ireland.

The definitive guide to one of Ireland's greatest natural and cultural wonders. The Giant's Causeway is a place where myth and science meet: were the spectacular basalt columns formed through the rapid cooling of lava from an underwater volcano, or created by mythical Irish giant, Finn MacCool?