Ireland and Britain

Nine days split between the Emerald Isle and England's capital gives this tour a natural two-act structure that few itineraries can match. Your group lands in Dublin and spends three full days in a city where Georgian architecture, Viking-era history, and a fiercely literary culture sit within easy walking distance of one another. From there, the route swings southwest to Killarney, where the lakes and mountains of County Kerry provide a striking contrast to the urban pace of Dublin before the tour crosses to London for a final stretch in one of Europe's most layered cities. The shape of the itinerary means students absorb two distinct national identities — Irish and British — and can begin to ask real questions about how those identities were formed, contested, and maintained over centuries.