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IRISH TRAVEL APPS
Ireland's Blue Book
Download the free Ireland’s Blue Book iPhone app to explore Ireland’s Blue Book unique collection of Irish Country House Hotels, Manor Houses, Castles and Restaurants. Ireland’s Blue Book helps guests plan their stay featuring information from the Blue Book properties located throughout the island of Ireland. Guests can view images of individual properties, learn about their amenities, browse guest relations information and read about upcoming events at other Blue Book properties.
Key Features of Ireland’s Blue Book
• Search from a selection of Blue Book properties on an interactive map or list view.
View photos of individual Blue Book properties and their surroundings.
• Contact the individual Blue Book property directly with single click email and dialing (iPhone users only) options.
• Follow Ireland’s Blue Book on Twitter to keep up to date with the latest news, events and offers.
• Access guest relations information of individual Blue Book properties anytime, anywhere.
Send virtual postcards of Blue Book properties to your friends and family.
Free
Appetiser Recipes & Cooking with Derry Clarke
By Georgina Campbell's Ireland Guide
Join tv chef Derry Clarke, proprietor of the award winning Michelin Starred l'Ecrivain Restaurant in Dublin, as he guides you through 60 user-friendly recipes written especially for the home cook.
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$5.99
Ireland Guide
By Georgina Campbell's Ireland Guide
Quickly and easily find all the very best places to eat, drink & stay across the island of Ireland with Georgina Campbell’s Ireland Guide - the most highly respected, trusted & critically acclaimed independent guide to Irish hospitality. From Restaurants & Cafés to Pubs & Wine Bars to Hotels, Country Houses, Castles and B&Bs – all recommended establishments have been visited anonymously by experienced assessors who pay their bills like anyone else, it is a merit based guide with only the best getting recommended ensuring that we save you the time and hassle of extensive research. We do not charge for a listing thereby ensuring that we have all of the very best establishments.
Key Features:
• Find the best places to eat, drink & stay anywhere in Ireland quickly & easily whenever you want wherever you are - at home or on the move
• Traditional web search – Eat/Drink/Stay – County – Town – Price Band – Category
• Around Here – In town and can't decide where to eat? Or in an area that you aren't familiar with? End the dilemma with the nifty "Around Here" function to see what recommended establishments are nearby
• Advanced Search – looking for that perfect place to eat/drink/stay in Ireland but have certain requirements e.g. Spa, Swimming Pool, Family Friendly, Romantic Venue, Beach on Site, Walking, Peaceful Location etc, etc? Then simply tick all of your choices and the most suitable establishments will be returned in descending order highlighting what is/isn’t available
• Establishment Pages feature Name, category, web address, phone number, directions, descriptive narrative, key data (including opening times, prices, features etc)
• Comments – leave comments & star ratings by category for each establishment that you visit & read others that have been left
• Add to favourites & see recently viewed from home page – ensures you don’t have to do multiple searches for the same information
• View on Google Map – see exactly where an establishment is and “finger pinch” to zoom in and out
• Continuously updated throughout the year – new recommendations added, some dropped, amendments/corrections made as required
Free
Ireland Discount Guide
By Heritage Island
Great offers and discounts available for 90 top attractions throughout Ireland including Dublin Zoo, Guinness Storehouse, Book of Kells, Bunratty Castle and Cliffs of Moher. Discounts include 2 for 1 offers on entrance fees, shop discounts and other concessions. You can save up to €500 with this guide.
Heritage Island’s new App "Ireland Discount Guide" brings together 90 of the top attractions throughout the island of Ireland including castles, gardens, heritage sites, family activities, museums and historic houses.
This FREE App is a wonderful guide to the top things to see and do in Ireland and includes maps, accurate GPS, image gallery and a list of the nearest 25 attractions to you wherever you are. Within the App is the unique Heritage Island Discount Pass which gives savings on admission prices worth over €500!
The Discount Pass is valid across all 90 attractions and simply needs to be displayed to get your reduced entry price or discount.
Features
*Swipe left or right under the regions to spin the Region Carousel
*Swipe left or right to move between Attractions on the information pages
*Get directions to each attraction from your location in Ireland
*Over €500 worth of savings across Ireland's top attractions
*Use your pass many times
*See http://www.heritageisland.com/app-t-cs for Terms and Conditions
Free
Ireland Green Travel
Discover an Ireland that is green, eco and cool
Eco green is the best of Ireland's already famous forty shades. This guide will have you donning your hiking boots, packing your panniers, wriggling into a wetsuit, and galloping across beaches. Green places to stay include lakeside 
lodges, yurt camps, island retreats, eco-castles, grand houses with more than just grand green gestures, yoga retreats, community-run hostels, switched-on hotels and activity centres throughout the island of Ireland, North and South of the border. You can also find out how to get to all these places using public transport, encouraging car users to think again. Going green on holiday is not about having a guilt trip, it's about discovering a real Ireland, meeting great people, eating fine local food and seeing all the gems that Ireland has to offer, not just the emeralds.
About the Author
Catherine Mack is a travel writer specialising in green, eco, responsible and ethical tourism. Call it what you will, but just don't call it worthy. Catherine writes in a way that shows travellers their time away can be just as sustainable as other areas of their life, and just as fun (ideally more) than buying the mass tourism ticket. Although Catherine looks closely at the green aspects of travel, for her it's not all about solar panels and lightbulbs, calico or compost. It's about finding great, green places to stay, meeting like-minded people and discovering fun things to do which make holidays all we want them to be.
As well as writing for many UK and Irish publications, she has a Masters degree in Responsible Tourism Management. In her role as regular Ethical Traveller columnist for The Irish Times, this app is growing all the time, as Catherine travels around the country and shares news, people and places in her regular app updates. Her green notebook is always open for new suggestions.
About Sutro Media
This guide is published in partnership with Sutro Media. By enabling local writers to share their expertise on mobile phones, Sutro Media is making it easier and more fun to explore the world!
Cost $2.99
iSpySculpture Dublin's Public Art
iSpySculpture takes you on a tour of Dublin’s rich collection of public art. Meet the many and varied characters who
have made Dublin the historic and vibrant city it is today - James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Guinness, Philip Lynnott and many more. Find a tribute to Father Ted (Dermot Morgan) in Merrion Square and a present from Germany in Stephen’s Green. Share the anguish of famine victims waiting on the quayside for the emigrant ship. Meet the builder of Ireland’s first railway (nowadays the DART commuter line).
Create your own sculpture trail with maps and directions to guide you right to the spot. Features a range of sculptures from modern works by international artists to classical 19th century pieces. For locals and visitors alike, includes 50 sculptures with stunning photographs, details and background story. All sculptures are within a 1km radius of Dublin city centre.
Recommended by Irish Fireside http://irishfireside.com/2011/03/15/ireland-travel-apps/
"Great photos and descriptions put 50 of the city’s most notable sculptures in the spotlight"
Cost €1.59
Visit Dublin - Offical Mobile Guide
Explore, discover, experience and enjoy one of the most vibrant capitals in Europe from the comfort of your home, at 35,000 feet, or the bustle of Grafton Street!
Features:
Offline directional search for visitor attractions, restaurants, streets, landmarks, hotels and a whole lot more (No data roaming)
'Guide Me’ function
20 special offers with restaurants, tours, theatre and retail
Audio for many of the capitals historic points of interest
Realtime GPS tracking
'What’s That?’ function: point your phone at the real world point of interest and retrieve information about it
‘Point to Call’ function
Camera View Augmented Reality
Visit Dublin app can function without any network connection, for example it can work in airplane mode.
Daily Bulleting with relevant updates (Requires data roaming)
The Visit Dublin Official Mobile Guide uses technology allowing you to use directional search to move around Dublin and discover your interests. Simply by pointing your phone you will find rich information about the places you see around you. This powerful pointing technology performs directionally filtered searches so that you get the information you are looking for quickly and easily. To find your way to an interesting spot, you can use the convenient Guide Me and/or Camera View augmented reality features. Whether you are in familiar territory or on an adventure, Visit Dublin from Dublin Tourism is the perfect companion. Save your favourite searches. Find things quickly. Satisfy your curiosity. Explore the world securely.
Free
Ireland for Food Lovers - Ireland's Food Tourism Guide
By Georgina Cambpell's Ireland Guide
Following on from the success of the book “Ireland for Food Lovers” food tourism in Ireland enters an exciting new phase with this new app, the first to offer a complete user guide to finding and buying the best Irish foods – and how to enjoy them at their best, both when eating out and at home. 
Of equal interest to Irish residents and visitors, Ireland for Food Lovers introduces readers to the many producers, farmers markets, food shops and places to eat, stay (and cook) that make up Ireland’s food culture – and gives a selection of favourite recipes showcasing Irish produce that are practical to cook, beautiful to look at and delicious to eat.
- Where to Buy - Features food shops, farm shops, farmers markets and food festivals all around the country
- Buy Online - Details given of shops/websites that can supply Irish produce by mail order
- The Producers - Introduces readers to the finest artisan & local producers on the island of Ireland
- Eat & Stay - Discover places to eat out and stay where the best of Irish produce can be enjoyed
- Learn to Cook - Features cookery schools offering courses based on Irish food traditions and local produce – often including visits to artisan producers
- In Season – What’s In Season in Ireland – Fruit & Veg; Fish & Shellfish; Game – given month by month
- Recipes - Enjoy a selection of relevant Recipes that are clearly described for home cooks to make with confidence
- Regional & County Introductions – Learn about the food and producers of each region and county in Ireland
- Full mapping & routes functionality, email contact, links to websites, addresses & phone numbers and introductory text
- Search for what’s “Around Here” or search by traditional search engine
- Coming Soon – A-Z of Irish Food – a comprehensive guide to Irish Food
Cost €2.99
Patrick Kavanagh, A Dublin Literary Trail
Patrick Kavanagh, A Dublin Literary Trail gives an insight into the life and work of one of Ireland’s finest poets. Patrick Kavanagh, probably more than any other poet who lived and worked in Dublin, is particularly associated with one area of Dublin. The Baggot Street / Pembroke Road area was the locality in which Patrick Kavanagh lived and worked for much of his life. This area became the source and inspiration of much of his most famous work.
While there have been inevitable changes in the area over the decades since his death in 1967, the buildings and streetscape have remained much as they were in his time. Members of the public can walk the trail from the Grand Canal to Raglan Road experiencing his poetry and gaining further insights into his life and presence in the area. The area is only ten minutes walk from St Stephen’s Green.
Free
National Botanic Gardens of Ireland
National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin - Plants, people and history
The perfect companion for a visit to the gardens, packed with fascinating stories and treasures and over 200 years of 
history.
> Meet the loneliest plant in the world
> Visit the glasshouse that is an architectural treasure
> See the ‘Last Rose of Summer’
> Hear about plants that eat sheep . . . and much more.
Enthusiastically narrated by the gardens' director, Matthew Jebb, and award-winning heritage writer, Mary Mulvihill, the guide also features Thomas Moore's famous melody, The Last Rose of Summer. The app combines three colour-coded audio tours of the gardens, with additional information, images and archive photographs. The Green tour explores the historic glasshouses and exotic plants. The Yellow tour is an easy stroll around the garden’s historic highlights. The Red tour takes you to the river, to explore wildlife, plant hunting, and even philosophy.
You can use the app to plan a visit, or to explore the gardens, or as a souvenir afterwards. The app requires a 3G connection to the Internet, and the audio is best enjoyed using headphones.
Developed for the National Botanic Gardens by Ingenious Ireland, with a grant from the Cultural Technology Grant Scheme 2010 from the Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport.
Free
IrishFireside - Ireland Travel and Culture App
Get the latest Irish travel and culture episodes of the Irish Fireside Podcast including bonus features such as:
- Bonus Interviews and Content
- Bonus PDFs
- Wallpaper images of Ireland
- Additional bonus items related to Irish travel and Irish-American Interest
- Streaming access to play episode from anywhere
- Updated with the latest episodes and an archived back catalog
- Download the episodes and play them when offline
- Playback resume (when interrupted by a call or other distraction)
- Favorites (mark the episodes you want to return back to over and over)
- Quick access to all the contact methods for the show
The podcast about Irish travel and other topics related to Irish-interest is now extending its offerings as an iPhone application. In addition to allowing you to stream episodes, the Irish Fireside App includes additional content and information that allow you to get the most out of your iPhone, iPod Touch and the Irish Fireside.
(Please note, not all features are available for all episodes. Call-in feature is only available on iPhone but not iPod Touch)
Cost $1.99
Dublin City Walls
The City Walls iPhone app offers a unique guide to the medieval history of Dublin City. Using the historic city wall as its framework, it blends graphics, videos, photos and breathtaking 3D animations to bring the medieval world to life like never before. 
City Walls functions as a walking tour for city visitors and residents, and a historical guide for anyone interested in the sites, stories and secrets of medieval Dublin, regardless of their location. The app has two levels – city view and site view. When users open the app, they begin at the city view level. Here they are presented with a parchment map that traces the line of the old city wall. Towers, gates, prisons and other points of interest are all highlighted. The wall is color-coded to indicate which parts are still standing, which exist but are underground, and which have been destroyed and are only known through historical records. Users can pinch and zoom in to examine the wall and enjoy the style and texture of this parchment-style map. Level two of the City Walls app is called site view, and it contains video, photos and text content for each site along the wall. Users access the site view by touching any hotspot on the parchment map, or any pin on the Google streetmap.
When a user launches a hotspot, they are presented with a stylized image of the particular site, rich in period detail. Beside this there is a short text description of the site with information on its size, use and other details. Depending on what is known about the site, there up to three further tabs within each hotspot.
From the moment users open the City Walls app, they will be captivated by its stunning visuals and realistic renditions of the medieval walled city. The City Walls interface blends a stylish parchment map, a 3D model and a modern streetmap to provide a rich understanding of city’s size and makeup. The content is given added weight by the fact that it has been reviewed by a steering committee of leading Dublin scholars and archeologists. Whether a resident, tourist, or avid medievalist, there is something for everyone to enjoy in the City Walls app.
Cost €2.99
Dublin Literary Walking Tour
This tour takes in many of the places in Dublin made famous by their literary associations with some of the greatest Irish writers such as James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats and Oliver St John Gogarty. In particular, Joyce’s “Ulysses” is considered the definitive book on Dublin as it was in the Edwardian era, the early years of the 20th Century.
This audio narrated walking tour comes with a detailed tour route map and powerful navigation features to guide you from one tour sight to the next. Tour sights included in this application are:
* Finn's Hotel
* Sweny's Chemists shop
* Oscar Wilde house
* Oscar Wilde statue
* Dermot Morgan seat
* Michael Collins bust
* W. B. Yeats House
* Leinster House
* National Gallery
* Huguenot Cemetery
* Oliver St John Gogarty
* Shelbourne Hotel
All the data used in this app is built into the software; hence, no Internet or Data Connection is necessary. The app works offline, so you will not need to pay the costly roaming charges when traveling to foreign cities. The app works with your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.
The powerful navigation assistance includes:
* Touring route clearly displayed on map.
* Precise turn-by-turn walking directions from one sight to the next.
* The "FindMe" feature displays your exact location, while an auto tracking feature displays your movement on the map, so you always know if you are moving in the right direction (this feature is not supported by the iPod Touch).
Cost $2.99
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
Carry Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane with you wherever you go. Use the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane App to find out what’s on at the Museum.
Features include:
Whats On - A Calendar of current and upcoming exhibitions, daily events and screenings, with the ability to share via Facebook or Twitter.
Find Us - Interactive Google Map
The iPhone app was developed by Point Blank.
The Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane App requires an internet connection.
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane is also featured on the The Dublin Culture Trail App.
Free
Historic Hotels of Europe
Discover Europe's finest historic accommodation, culture and cuisine. The "Historic Hotels of Europe" invite you to 
realize your dreams by introducing you to the finest selection of castles, palaces, convents, manors, country houses and restaurants in 19 countries throughout Europe. Browse, view images, share with your friends and book nearly 700 distinguished hotels across Europe anytime and anywhere with your iPhone or iPod and the Historic Hotels application. Finding and booking the hotel of your dreams has never been a more simple experience.
Key Features
- Get introduced to the 20 prestigious national hotel collections in Europe that form the Historic Hotels of Europe organization.
- Find the Historic Hotels near you with the iPhone GPS
- Check for availability, Book instantly on line or Call directly
- Search by situation (hotels "near me"), kind of lodging (castle, palace, manor house, boutique…), activities and location (seaside, mountains, city…)
- Stay updated on the latest promotions and special offers
- Access to all information about the Historic Hotels of Europe and the different historic hotels organizations
- Off-line loading service: access to the content when off-line
Free
Ireland's Blue Book of Country Houses & Restaurants
7/8 Mount St Crescent, Dublin 2. Ireland
Tel: (+353) 01-6769914 | Fax: (+353) 01-6314990 | Email:enquiry@irelandsbluebook.com
