The Coast is also home to a generous handful of medieval castles, not least Howth Castle, which gets a shout-out in the opening lines of James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake” and whose history goes ...

Legend has it that back in the late 1500s, a pirate queen named Grace O’Malley (Grainne Ni Mhaille) made a visit to the town and knocked on the door of Howth Castle (today Ireland’s oldest ...

When the 470-acre Howth Castle and Estate was sold for an undisclosed sum in 2019, the shuttered hotel on its grounds looked as if it had finally been handed the lifeline it needed.