Your performance will be today. Bands traveling in March can be considered for participation in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in the morning and the Limerick International Band Competition in the afternoon.

Discover Bunratty Castle, a formidable castle built in the 15th Century. It has been preserved to look just as it would have in the 1500s. A tour of the castle will include the Great Hall, Main Guard, and the South Solar. We will this visit the adjoining Folk Park, an authentic recreation of life in Ireland in the late 19th Century.

Venture to the end of the earth. The Cliffs of Moher jut 700 feet straight up from the Atlantic Ocean, layers of sandstone and shale striping the sheer cliff faces. O’Brien’s Tower perches on top and provides unparalleled views. With the surf crashing below and Ireland’s fabled green creeping down the rocks, the cliffs are one of the country’s most spectacular attractions. You’ll also visit the Aillwee Cave, a stalagmite-filled tunnel created by prehistoric glacial water rushing through the surrounding mountain. Archaeologists believe that the cave once served as a napping spot for hibernating brown bears, extinct in Ireland for the past thousand years. (Be nice to the doves outside—they’re a little worried about their own extinction since a pair of peregrine falcons moved into the area.)

Your performance will be today. Marching Bands traveling in March can be considered for the famous, annual St. Patrick's Day Parade.

Join a professional licensed tour guide on an adventure to Dublin’s finest attractions. Pass the residence of Ireland’s president along your journey through Phoenix Park. Within Europe’s grandest enclosed park, encounter 1,760 undeveloped acres scattered with cricket pitches, grazing cows, and red deer. Stop to eye a stone phoenix rising from flames atop the Corinthian-style Phoenix Column. Tour the roads along the River Liffey to 12th-century St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the largest of its kind in all Ireland. Get a glimpse of the neighboring park where St. Patrick (who brought Christianity to Ireland in the 5th century) baptized converts. Continue on to Trinity College, the stone-clad sprawling campus where Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett studied. Stop by the Long Room in the Old Library for a zoom-view of the illuminated edition of four Gospels, the Book of Kells. The original manuscript was penned in Latin around AD 800 by four Irish Monks who used multicolored ink from plants and bugs. Take some time to study the brilliant latticework of curvy Celtic symbols woven with animal figures that enlivens the script.

Visit Phoenix Park, an urban park that is one of the largest walled city parks in Europe at a size of 1,750 acres. The park is filled with large areas of grassland, beautiful tree-lined avenues, and even a herd of wild deer.

Discover Trinity College, the oldest university in Ireland. Trinity was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I. The beautiful campus features cobbled squares, gardens, a picturesque quadrangle and buildings that date from the 17th to 20th centuries. Trinity College is also home to the Book of Kells, an 8th-century version of the four Gospels decorated with elaborate scripting and illumination. We will view this famous treasure and other early Christian manuscripts in the Colonnades, an exhibition area on the ground floor of the Old Library.

Explore EPIC, the Irish Emigration Museum, located in Dublin's Docklands, the original departure point for so many Irish emigrants. The interactive museum will lead us through many facets of emigration: emigrants' reasons for leaving, how they influenced the world, and the connection between the Irish people worldwide.