and the emigration museum celebrates this small country s far reaching impacts. it features the stories of more than 300 irishmen and women and even offers genealogy appointments to help tourists explore their own family history. for a refreshment, you could stop off at the country s most visited tourist attraction, the guinness storehouse, which produces 880 million pints of the black stuff every single year. i popped over a few months ago to check out their exhibits and sample their new alcohol free stout. you genuinely wouldn t know. well, i genuinely wouldn t know. and if you re a budding joyce fan, you cannot miss the bloomsday celebrations on june 16, the annual festival taking place on the date depicted in ulysses, and there are events inspired by the novel all over dublin, including street performances and fancy dress. stay tuned, because later in the programme,