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Holiday Ireland News In 2011

Holiday Ireland Christmas Lunch

Managing Director Elizabeth Fahy with fellow directors Lorraine McGettigan & Michael Burke at the Holiday Ireland Christmas lunch in the RDS.

Christmas & New Year's Special Offer

AN EMIGRANTS TALE...

Follow the footsteps of your ancestors & view the last port of call of the Titanic where the last 123 passengers boarded the tragic ship as she embarked on her final journey…

Our package includes:

3 nights and 4 days in 3* family run hotel in west Waterford
Welcome punch reception on arrival
Choice evening meals
Entertainment
Visit to the famous Cobh Heritage Centre (the last port of call of the Titanic)
Visit to Midleton Distillery
Return standard ferry crossings

FROM £110 PER PERSON SHARING (MARCH/APRIL/OCTOBER)

Flower Power - Garden Tours

You can enjoy this and much more by booking on one of our lovely Holiday Ireland GARDEN TOURS for next year.. gardening expert included on the tour as well...

GARDEN TOURS Ireland

Eliz Fahy, Holiday Ireland Hotels - Still showing the way....

Eliz Fahy

Going Live...With Our First Christmas Group Special

Dublin's Winter Wonderland at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham
1st Dec 2011 to 8th Jan 2012

Winter Wonderland, produced by AEG, the world's biggest entertainment company, a winter village of stunning attractions, continental markets, Santa land, Craft village and much much more…

To coincide with this fantastic event, we are bringing you a special one off package from only £95 per person for 2 nights in Dublin & return ferry crossings.

Your itinerary will be as follows:

Day 1

Afternoon crossing on the Ulysees with 2 course meal + tea/coffee onboard
Overnight bed & full breakfast at a 3* + Dublin city hotel

Day 2

After a hearty breakfast we head to Dublin's Winter Wonderland, where the entrance is included
Time permitting, savour the delights & sounds of Christmas in Dublin
Return to our hotel for a delicious choice evening meal in a Christmas festive atmosphere

Day 3

Early morning departure from our hotel to catch the 08.05hrs Irish ferries crossing, but don’t worry about missing brekfast, because we have arranged for you to have a full Irish breakfast onboard

This fantastic event is located on the beautiful & historic site of The Royal Hospital Kilmainham home of the Irish Museum of Modern Art. All the excitement of the Christmas events - panto, ice skating, shopping, family, friends and fun- with Fossetts circus and cabaret performances, interactive zones, and a 5 week entertainment programme will bring Christmas to life…

Attractions will include:

Fossett's Christmas Cabaret Circus
A Spectacular Big Wheel
Traditional Carousel and Family Fairground
The Cirque cabaret and dining in The Spiegeltent
A stunning Christmas Tree centrepiece, live entertainment, pop-up attractions like ice-sculpting and Battle of the Choirs, as well as fabulous festive fare, such as mulled wine, hot chocolate, cinnamon candy floss, crepes and warm pretzels

**Bookings are subject to availability & minimum numbers, terms & conditions will apply

Holiday Ireland Valentine's Day Vouchers

Holiday Ireland Christmas Vouchers

For more information on our Valentine's Day vouchers email us at reservations@holidayireland.com or phone us on 01 87 45 488

The Managing Director meeting one of Ireland's own...John F Kennedy

Liz and JFK

Holiday Ireland Hotels - Cook Book

Irish Cook Book Holiday Ireland has recently launched a cookbook, which is packed full of the flavours of Ireland.

If you are interested in receiving our cook book, please contact reservations@holidayirelandhotels.com hotels for your copy now!

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Congratulations to Deirdre Featherstone, winner of our Facebook Golf Competition!

Charles de Gaulle : A Quiet Holiday
Centre Culturel Irlandais - 5, rue des Irlandais - 75005 Paris
From May 10th to June 1st 2011

On April 27 1969, France voted against reform of the Senate and of the regions. Feeling betrayed, General de Gaulle resigned his office as President of the Republic. A few days later, on 10 May, a GLAM airplane brought the famous man, his wife and his aide de camp to Ireland, for a holiday far from the centres of power and the elections to come. Padraig and Joan Kennelly, founders of a small photographic studio in Tralee, followed in the footsteps of this noted visitor and recorded the excitement caused amongst the inhabitants of Sneem, a small village in the south west of Ireland, in County Kerry. They called their photo journal “A Quiet Holiday”.

This exhibition presents twenty-five new images from the Kennelly Archive, a selection of Irish newspaper reports, audio and video recordings of the events of May 1969, as well as the history and genealogy of the McCartan family from which De Gaulle is descended. Padraig Kennelly, now 82 years old, has also created a contemporary, colour record of the same places but as they are today.

Exhibition curated by Isabelle Galy-Aché We are grateful for the support of the Fondation Charles de Gaulle, of the Ireland Fund of France and of the Kennelly Archive. The exhibition will be open to the public for the Nuit Européenne des Musées on 14 May, between 20.00 and midnight. A lecture will be given by Pierre Joannon on 17 May at 19.30.

Opening of De Gaulle Exhibition

De Gaulle Exhibition Genevieve with the 82 years old photographer Padraig Kennelly

De Gaulle Exhibition Minister

Opening of De Gaulle exhibition in Centre Culturel Irlandais with Aine ades, president of the Irish foundation in France, the owner of Cashel House where De Gaulle stayed and Jean Georges

Ambassador, 2 grand children of De Gaulle, Admiral Flohic at the opening of De Gaulle Exhibition

NITB Workshop in Killyhevlin hotel, Enniskillen

NITB Workshop in Killyhevlin hotel Genevieve with the new marketing manager of Tourism Ireland in France: Serge Fonseca at NITB Workshop in Killyhevlin hotel, Enniskillen