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Jon boy is right, keep your passport with you, but be SURE it's in a safe place. I've lost my passport before, and it was one of the most nerve-wracking experiences of my life. Bless kind Irish bank tellers.
Also, I'm not sure how currency/payment works there, but in my experience it's always best to use a credit card when you can, as opposed to traveller's checks. If you have a debit card, you can use it at an ATM just like at home (depending on the type of card you have). Traveller's checks are easy to lose, and depending on the size of the towns you're visiting, it can be difficult finding places that will cash them or exchange currency. So, if you cash a bunch of them in and you end up not spending it, you'll end up with a bunch of foreign money that you'll have to exchange in an airport at a crap rate.
Where are you travelling from? The currency issue isn't such a big deal if you're in the UK or Ireland, pretty much any bank will exchange it for you. Oddly enough, banks in the states won't do it - you have to send it to a downtown bank and pay a fee to have foreign currency exchanged.
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