There's this one

And this one ...

And this open-faced red :

A dark climber ...

and a beautiful yellow one.

Who's the stripey?

O/T, Ireland is a wonderful place to visit, friendly people and great food, and a plant fancier's dream. The boglands there are extremely acidic, and black, wet peat is always just below the surface. What grows there would never grow where I live...

Water, water everywhere. If only they could export some of that to California!

James Galway looks like the ruffled pink with the cluster of three.

What beautiful photos. Great trip!

I agree with Sheila about James Galway. That's the only one I can identify in any way. :) Unless the Yellow one is Golden Wings???

Sounds like you had a great time in Ireland. :)

Lovely, thanks for sharing!

Wonderful pictures! That red climber is absolutely magnificent. Thank you for sharing your pictures! I just googled Lismore Castle and the grounds (and castle!) look really amazing.

The late, great Sean McCann (Man, I do miss him) told me something that makes me smile when ever I think of him.

He said, when he had judged which of his new seedlings he would grow on and which not, he couldn't bear to throw them away. So he would load them in his car, and drive out into the Irish countryside, and plant them. He laughed to think of what people would think, upon finding them.

Sean McCann's 'Gentle Annie'

the red rose on the first picture looks like Darcey Bussell. In my garden her blooms can closely resemble MW, specially in cooler weather, she does not have much scent is less thorny (everything is).

So beautiful, Sylvia! My oldest daughter is in County Waterford for the last nearly two years. We went visit her last year in August and yes, it’s a gardeners dream. I didn’t see many roses there, but l am guessing there were more earlier in the summer. The hydrangeas were in full bloom though in the Mount Congreve Garden. My husband and I hope to go next May to visit again and there are several gardens on my list…

Jerijen, I googled Sean McCann and — what an eye-opener! He and Ralph Moore seem to have been the rulers of the mini universe. The list of his roses on HMF had me wishing I had the ones I could see, and frustrated because too many roses had no posted photos.

i’ll have to check his list against Burling’s inventory,

Thanks for the illumination!

Back when I was a newbie in my career as a 'rosemaniac' (mid/late 90s), Sean McCann was a prolific contributor to various rose publications. He was always one of my favorites, and a great writer. I also think that he may have participated in the old GW or the old rec.gardens.roses, or maybe both. Thinking about all of those old guys who contributed to my rose education melts my heart: Jim Delahanty, Bob Martin, Bill Hillman. There were many others. Sorry for the trip down memory lane, but seing Sean's name sent me back :-D

Lovely pictures. I'd like to hear more about Ireland. Are there many trees? I get the impression it's very green but not many trees. Isn''t it very expensive now? It has become a very prosperous country I think. Did you go to England as well? I want to go...want to see castles and historic places but I don't know if it is safe to travel these days.

Susan, yes. I think many of us met on rec.gardens.roses. And later, we had an email round robin for Gold Coast HRG.

I am fortunate enough to actually have briefly met Sean, but we became friends on line, and he and I exchanged a lot of information privately.

I miss all those guys more than I can say.

Jeri, you are fortunate to have met Sean in person. It's funny, even though Jim D was just down the road in Ventura County, and I was a member of VCRS, we never met. I didn't attend meetings because of my work schedule, so we were email "friends". A couple of times we just missed each other for events in the Bay Area. And of course, I remember corresponding with you way back in the day!

I only met Sean the once, but really got to know him by email. But we talked often that way. He was a good, good person. And I miss him, and Jim, and Mel more than I can say.

Back to roses before we all get misty eyed.

The yellow probably isn't Golden Wings which is a single and you don't get the intensity of color you see on some of the center blooms there. I had The Pilgrim for about ten years; they never got darker than pure light yellow, even late fall when other roses tended to come out in shades unlike their late spring first blooms.

To the possible red climbers I'd add Chianti which is a once bloomer and a good climber in zones 7 and 6.

Erasmus, sorry I didnt see your question before.

We were in southeast Ireland, Counties Waterford and Tipperary. It’s a prosperous farming area with no dearth of trees.

In the western part of the country, yes, I understand there are no trees.

I didnt think it was too expensive, especially after Iceland. We’ve been to England, and prices are higher there. Ireland uses the euro, which right now is just about equal to the dollar. That helped.