Ireland Books: DK Eyewitness Travel Ireland

Our Eyewitness Travel book was our primary guide book for our recent visit to Ireland. It served us very well, providing useful historical background, context, and practical information certain to be of use to any visitor. The challenge of travel guides is to fill them with enough information to be useful, but keep them small enough to be practical for carrying around. This guide, while packed full of information, photos and maps, is a bit too big and heavy for hauling around. And the city detail maps could benefit if they provided a larger view. We sometimes found ourselves stuck in a middle-ground, trying to get into a city centre, but lacking the detail in our national road map, and not having a broad enough view in the DK city centre map. But these are nitpicks. Overall this guide book served us very well.