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Ireland
Past and Present
June 16 – 25, 2022
Hosted by Debra Freeberg
Hosted by Tour Pace
Debra Freeberg Tour Cost Includes:
• Roundtrip air
Debra, former Calvin Director of Theatre and
Professor of Communication, loves exploring • Hotel accommodations
different cultures and landscapes-- and sharing • Breakfast daily and 6
them with others! She has led students and dinners
MODERATE – Activity
alumni groups to explore culture, faith, and levels vary from day to day.
• Dublin city tour
arts in Scandinavia as well as Ireland, England, Sightseeing is often a brisk • St. Patrick’s Cathedral
and Scotland. With Gary Schmidt, she also regularly leads a walk over distances of several
miles on cobblestone streets • Abbey Theatre Show
popular CALL Shakespeare trip to Stratford, Ontario. There’s no and uneven ground.
• Guinness Storehouse
one better to guide your discoveries of Ireland!
• Rock of Cashel
Debra L. Freeberg
• Cork city tour
dlfreeberg55@comcast.net
• Blarney Castle
Tour Cost • Cobh Heritage Castle
$5,154 per person from Grand Rapids,
• Ring of Kerry
based on double occupancy • Cliffs of Moher
• Galway city tour
Register online at
• The Famine Museum
bookings.wittetravel.com
• Kylemore Abbey
use booking code 061622FREE
or complete and return the printed registration form. • And more!
21, Tuesday
Ring of Kerry,
Killarney
A day of splendid scenery
awaits as we tour the Ring
of Kerry. This drive is said
to contain some of the
most magnificent scenery
in Ireland. We pass through
the small towns and villages
of Killorglin, Caherciveen,
Waterville, Sneem, and finally,
Molls Gap in the heart of the
black mountains. Returning to
Killarney, there is free time this
afternoon. (B)
22, Wednesday
Tarbert, Shannon
Ferry Crossing,
Cliffs of Moher,
Coole Park, Galway
Today we depart from Killarney
and head northwards. Tralee
is the first large town we
come to before Listowel and
Tarbert, where we wait to
16, Thursday the Guinness Storehouse to 20, Monday board the ferry that crosses
Depart discover all there is to know Cobh, Blarney the Shannon. Once on the
The day of departure has about this world-famous beer. Castle, Killarney other side, we travel along the
arrived. We meet at the airport It is a dramatic story that Our first stop this morning Atlantic until we come to the
for our overnight flights. begins over 250 years ago and is to Cobh Heritage Centre. holiday town of Lahinch and
ends in Gravity, the sky bar, This exhibition showcases the then onto the Cliffs of Moher,
17, Friday with a complimentary pint of origins, history, and legacy 700-foot cliffs into the Atlantic.
Arrive, Dublin Guinness and an astonishing of Cobh, a port town. From It’s then on to to the small
We arrive in Dublin where we view of the city. After an 1845 – 1960, over 2.5 million town of Gort where we will
are met by our tour manager. independent lunch, we enjoy people emigrated from Ireland have a brief visit discovering
Then we head out for an some free time. Tonight, we via Cobh. Here we relive the the tranquility of Coole Park.
orientation tour of the city. visit one of Dublin’s leading drama of the ill-fated Titanic There are two trails that we
After the tour, we go to our theatres, the Abbey Theatre. which called Cobh (then can walk, one around 1km and
hotel for check-in. Dinner and Before the play begins, we Queenstown) her last port of the other 5km. We can also
overnight will be in Dublin. (D) have dinner in a nearby typical call. Then it’s onwards through see the walled gardens, which
Irish restaurant. (B, D) the countryside to Blarney were much loved by Lady
18, Saturday Castle. This historic castle is Gregory. In 1898 she asked
Dublin 19, Sunday
world-famous for the Blarney WB Yeats to carve his initials
After breakfast, we commence
Rock of Cashel, Stone, which has the traditional on a mature Copper Beech and
our tour of the capital city.
Cork power of granting eloquence many others have followed
Dublin is a place where Today we leave Dublin and on all who kiss it. The word suit. We continue to Galway
tradition and cultural heritage head south through the ‘blarney’ was introduced for our dinner and overnight.
have merged seamlessly midland counties of Kildare into the English language by (B, D)
over the centuries. Our and Kilkenny to Tipperary. Here Queen Elizabeth I who used
first stop is at St. Patrick’s we visit the Rock of Cashel. it to describe pleasant and
Cathedral. Here we wonder This is a spectacular group of entertaining conversation that
at the majestic presence of Medieval buildings set on an was possibly not all true. Then
this Dublin landmark. Built outcrop of limestone. After our we transfer to Killarney for
on the oldest Christian site in visit, we head to Cork to enjoy dinner and our overnight. (B, D)
Dublin, St. Patrick’s Cathedral a city tour. Cork is often known
embodies the Celtic, Anglo- as Ireland’s second capital city. Cliffs of Moher
Norma, Medieval, and Anglo- Dinner and overnight in Cork. Killarney Mountains
Irish traditions. We then visit (B, D) Cover: Rock of Cashel
23, Thursday 24, Friday
Galway, Connemara, Famine Museum,
Kylemore Abbey, Dublin
Galway Today we leave Galway and
This morning we enjoy a visit the National Famine
city tour through the narrow Museum on our way to Dublin.
streets of Ireland’s third- Filled with letters and the
largest city. We see the history of the famine, you
Cathedral, Lynch’s Castle, and learn about the hardships
the Spanish Arch. We will then living in Ireland during the
discover Connemara. Here we Great Famine of 1845-1852.
can experience the wild and After our visit, we continue to
desolate beauty of Connemara Dublin where we will overnight
– the ancient Gaelic Kingdom in a hotel near the Airport.
where it is still possible, in Tonight, we have our farewell
the present, to “touch” the dinner. (B, D)
Irish Past. They say when
you visit Connemara you 25, Saturday
“experience the real beauty of Return
Ireland.” From there we visit Connemara National Park
Transfer to Dublin Airport and
Kylemore Abbey: the convent Kylemore Abbey
bid farewell to the Emerald
of the Benedictine Nuns of Isle. (B)
Ypres, beautifully set on Lake
Kylemore. Visit the picturesque
Abbey (reception rooms,
video, and exhibition), and
enjoy a stroll to the beautifully
restored Gothic Church;
browse in the craft shop and
sample our home-cooked
food. Then we head back to 3250 28th Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49512
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