Galway, Connemara, Aran Islands, Ireland

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videos, transcripts & photos at townsofeurope.... Galway, Connemara and Aran Islands in the west of Ireland and nearby sights. Galway is a lovely town, perfect for strolling along cobble-stone lanes lined with artisans shops, but even more attractive is the adjacent Connemara Peninsula, with Kylemore Abbey and Clifden, which we will thoroughly explore together.
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The essence of Irish landscape is the beauty-of green fields bounded by miles of rock walls; ancient stone houses with thatch roofs; cows and sheep wandering freely. This is a wild region of mountains, lakes, tumbling streams, undulating peat bogs, unspoiled beaches, and panoramic views. It is a Gaelic-speaking region that has maintained its traditional character and kept the modern world at bay. The musical accent of the friendly locals will charm your heart in a way you can never forget.
The west of Ireland has for generations been considered one of the most beautiful parts of Ireland and it seems that the beauty of the Connemara scenery is matched by the demeanor of its inhabitants. Galway has been voted the friendliest city in the world in a recent poll.
When you are in Clifden, stop by All Things Connemara for some Irish gifts, or to rent a bicycle for the day.
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[@jucarfamily2058]

Wow, i want to know more about IRELAND, watching fr BAGUIO CITY PHILIPPINES w/ LOVE

[@RuthBVC]

We love that Ireland has no skyscrapers.☘️

[@brigitnunez6735]

So dose Ireland

[@derrickmurphy9988]

Galway is a wonderful place

[@margaretperigois7280]

I love Ireland beautiful💕

[@johnfalconer5778]

So nice to watch, makes me homesick!

[@giannidalessio1100]

Beautiful video. I love Ireland and am fascinated by its ancient history.

[@maurirock87]

I miss the Spanish Arch Pub. It was my favorite by far! I was used to go there every Sat nigh listening to some live rock music. Then it turned in a modern posh pub :(

[@chatimer]

I was there 11 years ago. Great people! Loved it

[@tombowen826]

The Aran Islands are very special, though it looks a lot more commercialised than when I was there 30 yrs ago. Stunning place.

[@TheBigmick33]

Westport County Mayo pretty town and a great base for hill walking, island hopping, mountain climbing, fishing trips, great western greenway (45k cycleway), horse riding on the beach, exploring castles stately homes, numerous restaurants etc

[@condonjohn1518]

Here is a story connected with Aran Island sweaters, that was told to me many years ago. Never did get an opportunity to confirm it. In the old days when the islands were quite heavily populated, their main source of food and sustenance was fishing. This was carried out by the islanders using boats made of a wood/canvas combination, named "currachs", extremely light and could be carried by the fishermen up on to dry land after a days fishing. The Atlantic could be very treacherous and many lives were lost over the centuries. The famous Aran Island sweaters were knitted to individually unique patterns which identified the home or family that knitted a particular design. Tradition had it that no Aran Islander ever learned to swim, due to the fact that being a swimmer only prolonged the agony of drowning in the fierce cold Atlantic. When the bodies washed ashore several days later they were identified by the stitched pattern on the bodies'. True or False? I don't know.

[@denniscallan]

yes, that is the famous legend, must be true. Even today fishing in a small boat far at sea is among the most dangerous jobs.

[@amgrif]

True

[@cnobillbradley9673]

I think true only because wool has the ability to keep you warm whilst being wet. Logically fishermen would wear local wool sweaters

[@VirtualFeats]

I love Galway! When things get better I am defo going back! ❤️ Sending love from the other side of Ireland 🇮🇪

[@NadirNadir-td5iy]

Virtual Feats@ Galway is gay town and there's nothing there only dirt and alcohol..... Fk you

[@sharonsheehy3128]

Brings back memories when I was there ,,,,,,,,,

[@ShylieKay]

Ohhhh my goodness you've just given me the best gift a poor girl can have on a day like today.

[@sagartomar3461]

you are not poor😑😑

[@minir.3182]

I feel the same Shannon

[@AMindInOverdrive]

You will love it. I'd highly recommend Galway and Aran Islands - The locals speak teh Irish language fluently...it's a rare thing to hear a language that may be dying out being spoken in every day life :-)

[@paulcarolan2475]

hello from Royal hill Tara county Meath Ireland☺

[@extra2ab]

Have you visited it? Its 2020

[@nathankirk4118]

As an Irishman working abroad I thank you for this beautiful video. Home is calling

Yeah I've lived away almost 13 years. Home is definitely calling.

[@celticphilomena]

Nathan Kirk yes born and reared in North Dublin, left in the 80s as I hated the patriarch and how much control the Catholic Church had there. But ready to go back,it’s changed a lot since then. ☘️😊

[@borderreiver3288]

JUST STUNNING SCENERY AND PEOPLE ARE SO FRIENDLY...

[@36isnotold]

Galway is full of pubs and live music, I thought it would be fun to stay here a night or two.

[@xxvietbebe]

Galway is Irelands biggest party town because of all the universities there. I had too much fun with the locals when i was there in Nov 2018

[@vimalcurio]

Woah that's great. Where are you from?

[@xxvietbebe]

@@vimalcurio Canada 🇨🇦

[@vimalcurio]

@@xxvietbebe cool I wanted to move to Canada 🍁 Vancouver first but now I wanna move to Ireland 🇮🇪 lol because of tax haven and quiet culture and of course native English speakers

[@anthonym3351]

@@vimalcurio I don't think it's a tax haven

[@vimalcurio]

@@anthonym3351 yeah I was dumb I thought that. Sorry for my past stupidity.

[@hughneek12]

The patterns of the aran sweaters also gave indication of the wearers family connection, so that when fishermen were lost at sea and their bodies found at a later time, their remains could be identified by the individual designs on their sweaters.

[@slaneyside]

very enjoyable production thank you.

[@pamelatotanes1917]

Wow thank you for sharing so beautiful places

[@wendyballi8252]

Aye beautiful place to visit 😊🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🍀🍀🍀🍀

[@tubularap]

13:22 - "But you know, this is the Bronze Age. They wouldn't have expected running water in the same way we might today." Haha, I like the understated way the guide educates us. Nice video series. Thanks.

[@joseluissusunaga9394]

Hermoso Irlanda, uno de los Países que más amo en la Tierra

[@ClaireScarrott258]

Great video, thanks 🎤🎬📽💕

[@exploreearth6275]

Amazing video Galway is wonderful

[@kylehill3643]

to boldly go where no Rick Steves has ever gone before!

[@rapportbuilding3474]

eye and heart opening

[@willowclay3137]

I am half Irish. I still would like to visit.

[@lisaaheanueanderson4591]

This is my Grandpa Home town , in fact our Family farm is still here . I am Lisa A Heanue granddaughter of Thos Heanue

[@CelticWitch13]

I really enjoyed how you interviewed the locals. Slainte!

[@Discover-Ireland]

Great to be able to see what you the visitor seen in my part of the world.

[@ladylaois8184]

Excellent 👍🏼 thanks looking at a possible move to this area from England

[@aeeades9098]

Thank you so much for your videos I enjoy them so much!!!

[@waitineyes]

I have been there 2007 long time ago and im so lucky find the video thanks for upload .

[@pravakarlangthasa2228]

So lovely, nice

[@EricExplores]

Nice video! Ireland is one of my favorite countries to visit!

[@vimalcurio]

Not living?

[@jobsonm.rodrigues1043]

Nice, Galway can be my second home!

[@ciaran6309]

That dog is one of the local tour guides.😅

[@enyabroc1624]

Galway Bay, County Connaught is the ancestral home from the maternal line. Slainte' 🌺

[@johnmc3862]

Eye-Ur-Land!

[@RustyRockets_]

Thanks Grandpa for this wonderful video and narration. Lovely...!!! Cheerio!!!

[@mconnairexx]

The city of Galway was hit by The Portuguese tsunami after an offshore earthquake in 1755. The Spanish Arch was damaged as well as other structures along the west coast.

[@QTSweetFX]

How was that possible when the tsunami would of hit the east? lol

[@MiloManning05]

@@QTSweetFX no it wouldn’t have

[@waitineyes]

Beauty of ireland love to go again 🌯

[@Tu-Liki]

well, happy to be one of the inhabitants of this most spectacular area of "true" Ireland!

[@eisenjeisen6262]

Thanks for the upload, and the people look very friendly

[@clayfada6993]

Well most of them aren't local there tourists eisan.The local people are friendly but such is the strenght of tourism in galway most of the people you see are tourists

[@evelynconroy4821]

Eisen J Eisen bm

[@DavidMonge]

Be ready to be disrespected if you’re a TRUMP Supporter

[@annother3350]

@@DavidMonge has Trump derangement.

[@eugenieguillaumin6720]

thank you -- beautiful

[@Noahuesk]

awesome and wonderful

[@seangrogan3622]

"Education and whatnot" just about sums up perfectly my experience with the scholarly system!

[@geraldinebabester9414]

So do I as I know it well as a kid I loved it I wished I won the lottery I wood go back home

[@debc7341]

Love this video. Very fun and informative.

[@leilal8053]

The tour-guide at the castle ruins has what to me is the quintessential Irish accent 😊...I know there are different ones, and I like them all....but this one is so musical to my ears 👂🎶 ...I love it when the "TH" sound is pronounced like just a "T"....makes my toes curl!

[@terrybrennan536]

Love this video, and the history of the place. 😊♥️

[@hasifahmed8547]

Watching this video,I comprehend that, once I had been there.😍😍

[@ronanoboyle8432]

Great review. We have an art gallery near the the Cliffs of Moher in Liscannor - Atlantic Way Gallery would love to see you on your next trip 😊

[@bohsgerry]

Also it's the River Corrib not Carib.Good link well done ow.

[@noelnaughton5789]

If you are coming to the West of Ireland make sure you Fly into Shannon Airport not Dublin, you have just a 30 Minute drive to Limerick, Galway or the Cliffs of Moher, Lahinch and Spanish Point.

[@XLR_8]

Yeah just tell the pilot to land there on the way to Dublin.

[@lauralbriar]

Aer Lingus flys Toronto to Shannon airport! Thanks!

[@lauralbriar]

@ LOL - the Thanks was for Noel Naughton commenting to fly to Shannon Airport and not Dublin if you're visiting the West of Ireland....your comment was that Shannon is not connected to very many other airports - which it is :D

[@lauralbriar]

@ :D Wish I could go with you!!

[@user-vk8yq8oq7p]

Galway is an hour drive from Shannon not 30 minutes

[@kathleenhorner9296]

Thank you!

[@Michael-bf1dt]

Hi Kathleen how are you. Greetings from Ireland. Hope you’re safe from Covid. Glad you enjoyed the video. Ireland is beautiful. Have a good day and stay safe 😀😘 Michael

[@digvijayparmar8349]

Thank you from Charlotte nc jay GOD BLESS YOU WITH BEST IN THE WORLD. Good job.

[@lindatalbot3268]

My great grandparents were both born in Galway

[@willowclay3137]

It looks nice.

[@ciaran6309]

Love the Gaways Hookers. The boats that is.😯😉

[@Jungleland33]

Dún Aengus was originally circular. The reason it's on the edge of a cliff now is due to coastal erosion.

[@mjw12345]

Yes, there's a video on YT supporting this. I rate it highly plausible. But as far as I know there is zero academic for this view.

[@jaffacake3274]

It's not it was a promontory fort it was a bit more then a semi circle

[@amorele5633]

awww...I loved it!! will surely include these places in my next visit, loved the narration, you have done a fantastic job, will watch the other videos as well..

[@moneymandan6217]

Great video

[@arunachulashiva]

Lovely. Thanks. My maiden name is Callan.

[@DEEN133]

Good production of Dennis callen's Galway Tour with description. Galway great 💂

[@tomperkins6424]

I wish I could move there.

[@mariapierce2707]

me too

[@SviraSvi]

Very lovely video, thank you for putting it out there for us to enjoy! One of my biggest dreams is to visit Ireland someday :)

[@shehaamsafter992]

Why take so long. The best place to be.wish i can go live there

[@rajkumarchhantyal5609]

i was here September 2017 conemera

[@willowclay3137]

I don't drink. I just want to see the castles and laugh with the locals.

[@rosarioegan3858]

Loved your video. Which tour did you take to go to the Aran Islands? What was the company name? Thanks

[@tropemwojen9224]

Spent 3 years there. Exept terrible weather everything was great.

[@moniponi2176]

Great video! 🌱

[@KaydenChannel]

Beautiful video. Thank you :)

[@gwinnet3142]

❤️ 🇺🇸 🇮🇪

[@condonjohn1518]

Would recommend that the local tour groups add one other location to visitors' list, i.e. the statue of Father O'Flaherty. I think the statue is in Killarney, but not sure. He was the Irish priest at the Vatican in WW2 sheltered and saved hundreds of British and Allied prisoners, from the Nazis, then smuggled them to freedom, before Rome was captured by Allied forces. He is considered a hero like Schindler. And like Schindler there is a movie about him, called the Scarlet and the Black.

[@garretlarkin8039]

Drop me off in Kilkenny, and I'm good. Thanks!

[@keilafsc]

Wonderful!

[@paddypup1836]

We used to get hammered down-the arch with a bottle of buckfast. Then into jury’s for a piss then off up cps

[@mixailganev1978]

IRELAND IS LOVLY PLEASE IN GOOD.

[@maryheskin9616]

Hiii I’m from Galway

[@JustFiddler]

feels like home to me😢😊

[@alanfurlong-drummer4419]

A fantastic video, thank you Dennis.

[@signumnature7178]

NICE

[@thomasoflaherty3520]

I was born on Inishmore and like Dun Aengus my middle name is Aengus.

[@anitakleinhans8047]

Hi would like to meet a female friend from South Africa? Coz I I'm dieing to meet a friend from Ireland , my name is Anita

[@chrismcdonagh8075]

Same

[@suelipereirapereira1188]

Maravilha!!! Linda !'👏👏👏👏👏🙏🙏🌹🌹

[@ruthjohnson8651]

All this is wonderful to see but, I would love to see a Yarn shop. As I am a Knitter and Crocheter.

[@bridget9955]

There are plenty wool shops in every part of the country. So no need to worry😁

[@cardosocardoso4574]

I love ireland. I lived 5 yeas

[@kazimierz52wojtczak99]

Byłem i wdziałem jest naprawdę piękne miasteczko

[@ivarsmatisons]

Skaisti👍🇮🇪🇪🇺🇱🇻

[@webinator9715]

Nice!

[@toki1938]

merci beaucoup

[@janispeterson]

Hi. I. Looking for new friends in west Ireland. Galway sligo. Limerick etc...

[@terrybrennan536]

Apple drop sweets 😋😋😋

[@tims.5085]

in chicago wear something green on st.pats. day!

[@nairbjc]

Eyre Square , most popular in town and I see 9 people. Lol. Pedestrian walkway and you see 1 person

[@baranabdullah4989]

❤

[@GordiansKnotHere]

My heart was broken at 2:46 ...

[@denniscallan]

she is sweet.

[@ivankovac9042]

I love Irland?