Best Northern Irish Destinations: Belfast, Giant's Causeway (UNESCO 1986), Derry/Londonderry, Titanic Quarter, Bushmills 1608 and Deep Heritage Tour Guide
Browse more guides: Ireland travel | Europe destinations Best Northern Irish Destinations: Belfast, Giant's Causeway (UNESCO 1986), Derry/Londonderry Walls (1613-1619), Titanic Quarter, Bushmills 1608 and Northern Ireland's Deep Heritage Tour I have walked the 40,000 interlocking basalt columns at the Giant's Causeway in a sideways Atlantic drizzle. I have stood inside the gleaming angular hull of Titanic Belfast at Queen's Road, knowing the actual ship slid down a slipway 50 metres away on 31 May 1911. I have paced the 1.6 km of Derry/Londonderry's 17th-century walls in 35 minutes, watched a sectarian mural in the Bogside catch low evening sun, and tasted the 10-year single malt at the Old Bushmills Distillery where they have been legally distilling since King James I granted a licence on 20 April 1608. Northern Ireland is small, 13,843 square kilometres and roughly 1.9 million people, but the density of consequential history, geology and pop-culture pilgrimage...