1 Ireland is a small island in Western Europe, where the past and the present joint together to form a setting full of architectural wonders, culture and music. The country, which was once very empty, now has a wealth of history to explore.

The climate in Ireland might be one of the things that a tourist might like about the country. Ireland's climate is a very temperate one; extreme weather being a rare occurrence. On the East Coast between Dublin and Dundalk, the average rainfall is about thirty inches annually. On the West Coast, the rain is over fifty inches. Only on parts of the East Coast are there ever fewer than two hundred days of rainfall per year. In the months of May and June, the sunniest months of the Irish year, the East Coast will get about seven hours of sunshine during a day.

Ireland is an...