The Guide
Tony Kirby was born in Limerick city. He has also lived in Dublin (civil servant) and Bologna (English language teacher). He started to conduct walking tours in Dublin city in the late 1990s.
Tony moved to the Burren in County Clare in 2002. He founded Heart of Burren Walks that year.
In 2012 Tony Kirby produced the short film West Cork set at St Gobnait’s monastic site in Ballyvourney, County Cork. The film was screened at the 2012 Cork International Film Festival.
A new edition of Kirby’s critically acclaimed book The Burren and the Aran Islands A Walking Guide (Collins Press, 2009) was published in August 2014.
Outside of work, Tony is active at the community hub X-PO in the parish of Killinaboy. X-PO is housed in the former Killinaboy post office. X-PO activities include a singers' club, a local history/mapping group, art classes, heritage talks, Irish language lessons, exhibitions....Tony lives in Killinaboy with his wife Eimer and two sons.
IN THE MEDIA......
MAGAZINES Cara (Aer Lingus in-flight) and Knack (Belgium) ;
RADIO CBS (USA) and RTE (Ireland);
TV RTE and TG4 (Ireland).
GUIDE BOOKS Heart of Burren Walks is strongly recommended by the 2021 editions of guide books Fodor’s, Frommers, Lonely Planet, Guide de Routard and Rick Steves Ireland.
NEWSPAPERS
Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Tribune, Sunday Business Post (Ireland) ; Guardian and Daily Telegraph (UK) ;
Hannoversche Allgemeine (Germany) ;
USA Today and The West Australian.
Hannoversche Allgemeine (Germany) ;
USA Today and The West Australian.
TESTIMONIAL....
...."Thanks to Tony for making our guided Burren walk an unforgettable experience.
A Burren walk with Tony offers beauty, geology, history, nature, politics, ideas, serenity, spirituality . . . This is the one to take." Tom Quinn, Dublin Ireland
