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Tourism Ireland's Lakelands Region

Meet Sir Brendan Parsons, the 7th Earl of Rosse and reach back into Irish and Astronomical history at Birr Castle in County Offally, the birth place of the 3rd Earl of Rosse who in the 1840's invented a telescope with a 6 foot in diameter mirror which could see further and more clearly into space than any previous. 

Joe Byrne, CEO of Tourism Ireland.

Click here to listen to a Travelers411 Online Exclusive with Joe Byrne, CEO of Tourism Ireland. Joe shares with us the character of Ireland, the attributes that make Ireland special and separate it from other destination and some of the particular places in Ireland such as Dublin, Belfast, Derry, Kerry and Killarney that "warm his heart" from the great Irish welcome.