CORK & KERRY Preview

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You’re about to experience Ireland’s Southwest in a way most tourists never do—hearing the stories, music, humour, and wit of its people, in real time, as you drive the Wild Atlantic Way.

Counties Cork and Kerry offer so much more than gorgeous scenery, and this installment of Road Trip: IRELAND—the award-winning, GPS-enabled audio guide to the culture and heritage of the west coast—brings it all to life, narrated by acclaimed singer and musician Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh.

This Sampler features two full tracks from the app’s second audio tour, CORK & KERRY.

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Cultural Roadmapp
June 2026

In the cold, dark Atlantic waters off the Old Head of Kinsale, County Cork, lies the RMS Lusitania, the British luxury ocean liner torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat during World War I.

Eoin McGarry has dived the wreck more than anyone else in history. In this tour stop, he tells the amazing story of a related conspiracy that lives on to this day.

Though a gentle, softspoken man, Gerald Butler had always wanted an extraordinary life. Perhaps that's why he followed two generations of his family (and some brothers!) into the business of tending lighthouses. But even he could not have imagined the drama, exhilaration, terror, and despair he'd encounter over a 21-year-long career along some of Ireland's most treacherous shores. Tune into the sounds of kittiwakes, seagulls, razorbills, crashing waves, and Morse Code as Gerald tells his gripping tale of living on the edge.

The small island of Ireland is world renowned for the uncanny, disproportionate number of master writers it produced in the last century. But once, on a windswept island off County Kerry's Atlantic coast, an enclave of writers turned everyday life into a body of Irish-language literature also widely considered world class. That poetic outpouring is perhaps most remarkable for the completely unexpected nature of its emergence and flowering. Actress Áine Moynihan reads excerpts from these sometimes-humorous, sometimes-heartbreaking writings.