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​Ireland boasts a characterful culture, full of beloved traditions, customs, and origins so synonymous with the Emerald Isle. From Irish dancing to a love for potatoes, here are the most celebrated quirks of Irish culture

​Fiddling is the act of playing the fiddle, and fiddlers are musicians that play it. Among musical styles, fiddling tends to produce rhythms that focus on dancing, with associated quick note changes, whereas classical music tends to contain more vibrato and sustained notes

The Fiddle

​The Irish flute is a conical-bore, simple-system wooden flute of the type favoured by classical flautists of the early 19th century, or to a flute of modern manufacture derived from this design (often with modifications to optimize its use in Irish Traditional Music, Scottish Traditional Music or Music of Brittany and other Celtic nations).

The Irish Flute

A tin whistle player is called a whistler. The tin whistle is closely associated with Irish traditional music and Celtic music

The Tin Whistle

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​The cultural landscape of Ireland is particularly rich because, as an isolated island with a temperate climate and blessed with stone, it has escaped many of the more destructive attacks of erosion, warfare, and time

Irish landscapes

​This is a Dolmen. Dolmens date from about 2,500 BC and tend to have a large concentration in eastern areas of Ireland along the coast. They were used to commemorate the dead and also may have acted as centres for various ceremonies in the area.

Among the technologies the Normans brought to Ireland was the building of cut-stone fortified Irish castles. The building of these castles started about a generation after their arrival.​