Purple Flowers in a Green Irish Field
These beautiful purple wild flowers, known as Ragged Robin, are found throughout the island of Ireland. This image, “Purple Flowers in a Green Irish Field,” was captured in a meadow in Aghadoe Heights near...
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Irish Country Road in County Clare
Vibrant greenery and wildflowers line this Irish country road in the townland of Lanna, County Clare, Ireland, between Lissycasey and Ballynacally. The area, part of the Parish of Clondegad in the Barony of Islands,...
Irish Summer Floral Display
While the beauty of the Emerald Isle has been the subject of poetry, prose and art for many years, the annual transformation of the Irish countryside from the perpetual 40 shades of green to...
Path through Yeats’ Fairy Forest, County Galway
Sunlight streams through trees as a serpentine path winds its way through wildflowers in the ‘fairy forest’ alongside Thoor Ballylee, former summer home to Ireland’s famed Nobel Prize-winning Poet W. B. Yeats, in County...
Fairy Thimbles and Ferns in the Irish Countryside
Sunny weather has triggered the annual explosion of color in the Irish countryside as Foxglove, the brilliant purple wildflower also called “Fairy Thimbles,” blooms alongside ferns and other greenery. Foxglove is a biennial native...
