As the specialist in self-drive motoring holidays to Ireland, Irish Ferries Holidays has more than one trick up its sleeve when it comes to holidaying with your car in Ireland.

Blow the dust off your book covers, as you travel back in time with Irish Ferries Holidays on a literary trail. Take the chance to truly explore the famous land of saints and scholars! Take in the sights and sounds as you learn about the authors that have brought Ireland to the world.

Irish Ferries Holidays wants to take you past judging a book by its cover; they know how to read between the lines…..

Start your literary trip in Dublin – the home of Joyce, Beckett, Wilde and Brendan Behan – and arrive in style on board “Ulysses” the world largest car ferry, and named after a literary behemoth of the same name! Travel into the city centre and keep a watch out for the small sign next to St Nicholas Collegiate Church which points to the smallest museum in Ireland; the home of Nora Barnacle, the wife and life-long inspiration of James Joyce, one of Ireland’s most prestigious writers. Walk the streets that appeared in Joyce’s’ famous Dubliners novel and visit the James Joyce centre where exhibits provide a unique and personal insight into this literary great. Or sink a pint of the black stuff in “Smyths of Haddington Road” and watch the world go by from the front window as Behan himself did many years ago.

Visit the childhood home of Oscar Wilde at Merrion Square, located behind Trinity College and Leinster House, the home of Irish parliament. Wander the Oscar Wilde garden opposite the house; read the stones engraved with his witty sayings and see the recently commissioned statue.

Take a cross country drive to the awe inspiring lake at Coole Park in Galway that gave W B Yeats the inspiration to write his famous The White Swan and trace, first hand, the carved initials of Yeats and other writers of the Irish revival on the Autograph Tree. Wander the Isles of Aran, the beautiful scenery that not only cleared writer’s block, but also gave Playboy of the Western World, J M Synge his inspiration.

An hour’s drive south to Limerick and spend a few leisurely hours immersed in the social history of Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes. See the McCourt family’s first house on Windmill Street or eat at Naughton’s Fish and Chip shop, formally the Yellow Road Café to which McCourt refers to many a time.

If this trail through the lives of the great and good of Irish literature has whetted your appetite, Irish Ferries Holidays can offer a range of five-night itineraries using a choice of Manor House Hotels or Irish Country Hotels and located throughout those parts of Ireland steeped in literary heritage. Stay in the heart of Dublin (from just £32 pppn), in the depths of rural Ireland, (from £36pppn with a third night for free when you book between January-April and October-December) , or take in some of the most commanding views in the land and stay in a small family run hotel, looking out at the Atlantic Ocean and the beautiful beaches at Spanish Point (from £39pppn), subject to availability.

Booking with Irish Ferries Holidays could not be easier. and when you do you will receive a FREE copy of the Irish Ferries 100 page atlas and travel guide, and Irish Ferries Holidays also offer a FREE door-to-door routing to your first night destination.

For further information on Irish Ferries Holidays visit www.irishferriesholidays.com or telephone 08705 17 17 17.