Officially called Gaeltacht districts, schools there are still taught in Irish and many families still speak it in the home.
If you want to visit a Gaelic-speaking area of Ireland on your vacation, consider researching the Gaeltacht districts in County Galway (including Connemara and the Aran Islands), County Donegal, County Mayo, or the western half of the beautiful Dingle Peninsula.
Guinness offers tours of its historic storehouse in Dublin (including the Gravity Bar), and Jameson offers tours of its old distilleries in both Dublin and Midleton (County Cork).
To see what everyday life was like in Ireland almost 6000 years old, visit the Ceide Fields (near Ballycastle).This is the land of William Butler Yeats, Bram Stoker, Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde.A truly fun way to learn about Irish writers is to go on the Dublin Literary Pub Crawl, which takes participants onto the campus of Trinity College as well as to pubs that were either frequented by some of the country's best-loved writers or that served as the settings in novels such as Joyce's .Other interesting literary sites to include on your itinerary to Ireland include St.Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, Yeats-related sites in County Sligo and the Dublin Writers Museum.