Best 14 Days in Ireland — Winter

Tour Ireland's most important political prison where 1916 Rising leaders were executed, with a guide-only access policy

Visit the Guinness Storehouse and choose a whiskey distillery for a self-paced drinks day

Tour the restored Jameson Bow St. Distillery and finish with a whiskey tasting and complimentary drink

Tour Dublin's first new distillery in 125 years and taste small-batch, single-grain and single-malt whiskeys

Research your Irish ancestry free at the National Archives — census returns, land records, Famine-era workhouse registers, and wills spanning 200 years.

Learn how Ireland lost and reclaimed its whiskey crown, then taste three styles in a guided session

Soak in a private cedar tub of hot seawater and wild-harvested seaweed at Strandhill, near Sligo

Ferry to Inis Mór, bike to the cliff-top prehistoric fort Dún Aonghasa, and walk an island where Irish is the everyday language

Spend a spa day at Killarney's top luxury properties, with lake views, vitality pools, and Irish countryside treatments

Boat to Skellig Michael to climb a 6th-century island monastery — a UNESCO World Heritage Site and Star Wars filming location.

Drive the Slea Head loop past 2,000-year-old beehive huts, ruined stone forts, and views of the Great Blasket Islands from Ireland's westernmost point

Drive the Slea Head loop past ancient stone forts, Inch Beach, and the hair-raising Conor Pass mountain road.

Ride a Belfast black taxi along the Falls and Shankill Roads, stopping at Troubles-era political murals and the Peace Walls

Walk the city center sites of the Troubles with a guide who lived through them, from Bloody Friday to the peace process

Walk Northern Ireland’s only surviving Victorian-era prison, from the tunnel to the hanging cell, with AV throughout

Taste seven gins including five locally crafted Belfast varieties at a Victorian Gin Palace and four more bars