~ Tourism Ireland’s 2016 Game of Thrones® campaign continues to showcase Northern Ireland to millions of fans worldwide ~

17 May 2016 – Episode four of the sixth season of Game of Thrones® aired last night (Monday, 16 May) and Tourism Ireland unveiled its fourth ‘Door of Thrones’ – this week in Blakes of the Hollow pub in Enniskillen.

The door is part of Tourism Ireland’s 2016 Game of Thrones® campaign, created in partnership with HBO, which is showcasing Northern Ireland to millions of the show’s fans worldwide. Tourism Ireland is reminding fans everywhere that nowhere will get them closer to Game of Thrones® than Northern Ireland – the home of countless GoT locations, including Dragonstone, the Haunted Forest and Winterfell, where fans can meet direwolves, learn archery on the exact same spot as Jon Snow and set sail across the Narrow Sea! Earlier this year, Tourism Ireland saved the wood from two trees at the Dark Hedges – known in Game of Thrones® as the Kingsroad – which fell during Storm Gertrude.

The wood was then used to make a series of 10 beautifully engraved doors, each one telling the story of the latest episode in season six. The doors are being unveiled by Tourism Ireland each week as season six unfolds, in restaurants, pubs and other venues near Game of Thrones® filming locations across Northern Ireland. This week’s door in Blakes of the Hollow features several striking designs, immortalising the Targaryens and Arryns. It is near the Brotherhood without Banners’ hideout – the filming location otherwise known as Pollagollum Cave.

The first door (from episode one) is hanging in The Cuan guest inn in Strangford – near the filming locations of Castle Ward and Audley’s Castle. The second door is hanging in Fiddlers Green in Portaferry, near Quintin Bay. The third door, in the Percy French restaurant, is near Tollymore Forest Park. As part of the campaign, Tourism Ireland is also producing a series of limited edition Game of Thrones® stamps, in conjunction with the Royal Mail.