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Travel and Tourism in Ireland
Travel alerts, currency, climate, transit, health, and safety information for visitors to Ireland.
Practical Information
Travel alert status, currency, climate, and transit details.
- Travel Alert Status
- Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions
- Time Difference
- UTC 0 (5 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
- Currency
- euro (EUR)
- Climate
- temperate maritime; modified by North Atlantic Current; mild winters, cool summers; consistently humid; overcast about half the time
- Language(s) Spoken
- English (official, the language generally used), Irish (Gaelic or Gaeilge) (official, spoken by approximately 37.7% of the population as of 2022; mainly spoken in areas along Ireland's western coast known as gaeltachtai, which are officially recognized regions where Irish is the predominant language)
- Ethnic Groups
- Irish 76.6%, Irish travelers 0.6%, other White 9.9%, Asian 3.3%, Black 1.5%, other (includes Arab, Roma, and persons of mixed backgrounds) 2%, unspecified 2.6%
- National Holiday
- Saint Patrick's Day, 17 March; note - marks the traditional death date of Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, during the latter half of the fifth century A.D. (most commonly cited years are c. 461 and c. 493); although Saint Patrick's feast day was celebrated in Ireland as early as the ninth century, it only became an official public holiday in Ireland in 1903
- Geographic Coordinates
- 53 00 N, 8 00 W
- Location
- Western Europe, occupying five-sixths of the island of Ireland in the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Great Britain
- Airports
- 39
Destinations
Regions and cities, top sights, national parks, UNESCO sites, and festivals for visitors.
Merrion Square and the Georgian City
The south side of central Dublin is defined by its Georgian architecture, the legacy of the eighteenth century when Dublin, as the capital of the Kingdom of Ireland, was among the largest and most prosperous cities in the British Isles. The Georgian squares — Merrion Square, Fitzwilliam Square, St Stephen's Green — are compositions of remarkable consistency and elegance, their brick terraces with their distinctive painted doors and elaborate fanlights creating an urban environment of considerable formal beauty.
Merrion Square is the finest of these spaces. Oscar Wilde lived at Number One as a child — his parents, the surgeon William Wilde and the nationalist poet known as Speranza, maintained one of the most brilliant literary salons in Victorian Dublin — and the park in the center of the square contains a reclining statue of Wilde by sculptor Danny Osborne that captures something of the writer's languid, ironical character.
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Health and Safety
Medical facilities, vaccinations, disease risk, and sanitation conditions.
Modern medical facilities and highly skilled medical practitioners are available in Ireland, but due to high demand, access to medical specialists and admissions to hospitals for certain non-life-threatening medical conditions may result in extensive waiting lists. It is not unusual for emergency room (ER) services to be very busy or for post-treatment admissions to include a long wait (sometimes overnight) on a gurney in a hallway rather than in a shared or private room.
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