One Day in Galway, Ireland | Ireland's Most Charming City

[@KCCTravel]

A nice video on Galway.

[@landonkissell]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@garybarrett4881]

I live in Galway. Man, you really got around a lot in a short span of time! Well done! There is a lot more to see so come back again sometime and check out some more. Did you know that Galway is where the discovery of America began? Christopher Columbus happened to be in Galway in 1477 at the same time that a mysterious boat or canoe washed up on the coast of Galway with 2 dead bodies in it who were clearly not Europeans, they had the international sailors examine the bodies to attempt to determine their nationality. Apparently when he saw the bodies Columbus was convinced that there was another land across the Atlantic. It’s believed now that they were native Americans who must have gotten washed out to sea (we regularly get stuff from North America washing up on the coast). There is a small monument to Columbus in Galway, and the church he attended is still in the centre of the town. Lots of tourists will use Galway as a base from which to explore the rest of the west of Ireland: the Connemara national park, kylemore abbey, day trips to the arran islands, etc. There’s a great guided walking tour of Galway that starts in eyre square if you come again.

[@landonkissell]

Wow, thanks for the kind words and the fascinating history piece! I had no idea that Galway played such an intriguing role in the story of Christopher Columbus. It’s amazing to think about how that mysterious event might have influenced his journey. I definitely need to come back and explore more of the area-there’s so much to see and learn! I’ll be sure to check out that walking tour in Eyre Square and maybe even visit some of those other spots you mentioned. Galway truly sounds like the perfect base for exploring the west of Ireland. And I am so glad you enjoyed the video! I had such a great time

[@yermanoffthetelly]

Theres a Japanese anime called Fractale (フラクタル, Furakutaru) which features Galway City in a couple of episodes, literally street for street. Some of the areas you have walked around are featured in it. There is also the dark comedy movie "The Guard" with Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle. Its more focused on rural Galway but some scenes were shot in the city near to where you shot this.

[@landonkissell]

wow that is awesome! I love how it has pop culture features. thank you for this information!

[@gallowglass2630]

The corrib river is actually the shortest river however its source is the second largest lake in ireland which means that the amount of water flowing through is enormous

[@landonkissell]

makes sense then how the water is constantly flowing. I am still in shock how fast it went

[@gallowglass2630]

@@landonkissellWhen you said you expected to see something like that in a wilder area well though galway is a city its on the edge of a wilderness area called connemara so you were not far wrong.Also the 1million figures for tourists doesn't just include the city other areas in county galway like kylemorev abbey in connemara and the aran islands get huge numbers.

[@landonkissell]

@@gallowglass2630 so definitely makes sense why the river is so fast then. My video coming out tomorrow is specifically on the different waters of Galway. Wish I included this information. And I heard to Aran Islands are stunning

[@jgg59]

I’m loving your videos you are one quirky character. I love that when you talked about the cruises, you said British and Irish Isles good man Ireland is not part of the British Isles.

[@landonkissell]

I am so glad to hear! your comments make my day

[@jgg59]

@@landonkissell where are you from in the US?

[@AlexJ.Goldsmith]

Bro, get your facts straight my man, Ireland will always be part of the British Isles it's just how it is. And this is called history, so to say it's not is like saying Northern Ireland isn't part of Ireland as a whole, like folk don't use the term British Isles as much as they used to but that doesn't mean it's not true. It's a fact, it's a purely a geographical term. Meaning, these Islands is a common diplomatics way to describe the islands, and this was the DFH cited in the Good Friday agreement, as a notable example of this, in which the term "British isles" as avoided completely and these "British Isles" used when needed like Landon just did. Beises, as a Limerick man, I love it when Ireland is included in the British isles. Cos the Shannon river in Limerick isn't only the longest river in Ireland but it's the longest in the British isles so that makes the Shannon river more important in those terms instead of it just being called the longest river in Ireland, I mean do you seriously believe anyone would look it up or even care if it was just the longest in Ireland. if you do believe this then you're dreaming mate. So, when it comes to important things like Limerick's Shannon river I'm happy to say, yes we're part of the British Isles. And agreeing to this just like the Irish government did in the Good Friday agreement doesn't mean or makes us British, we've still very much Irish and not part of the UK.

[@jgg59]

@@AlexJ.Goldsmith it’s a colonial terminology to show ownership get with the program. Things change names change decolonize

[@AlexJ.Goldsmith]

You're so wrong my friend@@jgg59

[@MrLetmein2011]

Love this Landon .

[@landonkissell]

glad to hear it!

[@pascaloneill9116]

You're an interesting character..particularly for somebody so young..we'll done to you..go well on your journeys!

[@landonkissell]

thank you! 😊

[@jimmybv1]

When you say at 1340 you say your walking 40 mins , you walked out from the city on tuam road then walked back in Bohermore , which is 10 minutes walk back to eyre square

[@landonkissell]

I meant from start to finish from one end all the pier. Sometimes my editing cuts clips together and is not always in order of what I see

[@gallowglass2630]

Those fields are GAA fields for hurling and Gaelic football not rugby because they have nets on it and the posts arent padded,the posts you saw at trinity had pads on them and no nets so they definitely were rugby posts.The thing is GAA sports are far more popular than rugby in terms of grassroots so GAA posts out number Rugby posts by atleast ten to one. Rugby is popular in galway with connacht rugby being one of 4 pro irish teams but soccer would be more popular in the city and in the county of galway hurling and gaelic football are more popular ,half of galway is gaelic football and the other half hurling. Ireland is not that religious any more its completely secular attendence is very low and also the cathedral was only built in 1959 it may look old.All the old catholic cathedrals were taken over by the protestant church of ireland which means that irish catholic churches are built no earlier than the 1829 .

[@landonkissell]

thank you for all of this insight! I find that very interesting with the Gaelic football. I knew it existed and was popular but didn’t realize it was THAT popular. outnumbering rugby 10:1 is crazy. and also I never would have expected that with the Catholic Churches all being built since 1829. they look much older so the designers did such a great job

[@gallowglass2630]

@@landonkissell GAA is not just gaelic football its a numkber of irish traditional sports but Hurling and gaelic football are the main ones and use the same field and posts.In galway as hurling and gaelic football are equally popular bothy games would be played regularly on those fields you saw. Every village in ireland has a GAA club and its fairly strong in the cities aswell,rugby is much more confined to a few largeb urban areas and its very middle class.Most of the Irish rugby team comes from private elite schools they are places like limerick where working class play it aswell 1829 is when the laws discriminating against catholics well basically against irish people were abolished. For 200 years these laws were in place so thev old catholic churches were either destroyed or stolen by protestant church.All the really ancient catholic churches going back to the middle ages like St patricks and Christ church in dublin are owned by the protestant Cof I though the catholic church claims christchurch and regards its own cathedral as a temporary structure .However as i said in a previous comment neither church hasv much social impact any more.

[@gallowglass2630]

@@landonkissell A clarification GAA has ten times the fields and clubs but it terms of spectator interest its much closer and gaelic football and hurling is not international so rugby has that advantage in haqving a NT to get behind,but even still GAA sports edge out in terms of interestn and plus the soccer team is not great atm.

[@landonkissell]

@@gallowglass2630 makes sense there. In terms of sports, kids play growing up, it is primarily GAA and Gaelic football? Are there any other prominent ones that I may not know about?

[@landonkissell]

@@gallowglass2630 wow the history behind this is very fascinating. Thank you for all of this information it’s very interesting to learn about! Also I’ve never played Hurling but it seems like a lot of fun

[@AlexJ.Goldsmith]

Hey bro. 😂 Finally in Galway🎉 brilliant🎉

[@landonkissell]

yep I made it 😎. such an awesome city with so much charm

[@gerarddeegan1164]

Cork and cork city would be the second most populated area of ireland limerick city would be third and galway fourth😊

[@landonkissell]

I think I meant in terms of tourism Galway is second. should have made that clearly because yes that’s a very important distinction. Would love to see Cork and Limerick soon

[@gerarddeegan1164]

​@@landonkissellevery city and town would be great tourist destinations theirs no comparison😊

[@gerarddeegan1164]

​@@landonkissellyea cork city and cobh town would be brilliant to visit did you know cobh was the last port of call for tittanic and the lusitannia cruise liner was torpedoed of the cork coast too theirs some history to it their also another tragic event happened in the 80.s when a 747 jumbo jet air india was blown up above the south coast of ireland theirs a memorial to the jumbo disaster their were many people died so google luisittania tittanic and the air india jumbo disater off irelands coast just a piece of history for you 😮

[@AlexJ.Goldsmith]

Lol, @@gerarddeegan1164 he hasn't seen all of them yet give him a chance.

[@AlexJ.Goldsmith]

@@landonkissell Landon, I knew what ya meant my brother, and you're spot on too. Yes, Galway is the next city in Ireland for tourism, then it would be the ring of Kerry, Cork city and Cork county of course. Then Kilkenny city, Limerick city, then it would be the county of Clare, and Waterford city. but you keep doing your thing, Landon, you're doing a top-notch job my friend, and I for one am here for it, buddy! 💯🙌 Oh, can I just add and say that Galway got 2.5 million visitors last year and Limerick city got 1.4 million, my buddy, but keep up the great work, Landon.

[@gallowglass2630]

I am from the west of ireland so i have been in galway many times but i think there was any double decker buses there at all.Also the University is not medieval either it was built in 1845 as one of the Queens Universities which were non denominational colleges set up by the British government who ruled ireland at the time to cater for all religions as before that it was just trinity College which was only for protestants slash english descended people

[@landonkissell]

wow that is interesting how the British set it up as non-denomination. all of the history with the universities (such a trinity and then UCD being created to allow Catholics since they couldn’t go to trinity). and by medieval I meant in terms of looks (I should have made that clearer) and maybe the double decker buses are new :)

[@gallowglass2630]

@@landonkissell UCD was set up by the catholic church though it was not non denominational as the catholic church didn't like these non denominational colleges as they didn't want there members mixing with protestants.Protestants could go to UCD but as they would have been a minority the church didn't mind and they wanted converts.The control the catholic church had was incredible,but its more incredible how in less than 30 years it has virtually no control whatsoever.

[@landonkissell]

@@gallowglass2630this really shows how interconnected religion was to Ireland back in the day (compared to how it has much less of an impact today)

[@gallowglass2630]

@@landonkissell Yes to an extent but catholic and protestant in an irish and britsh context mean Irish and british.The british were quite happy to ally themselves with the portuguese and spanish catholics in the napoleonic wars but they didn't have any colonial interests in spain or portugal they had in ireland so the irish needed to be controlled and subjugated and we oppressed because of that not really because we were catholic,catholic and protestant was just a colonial tool.

[@landonkissell]

@@gallowglass2630 got it, thanks for this!

[@jgg59]

Have you tried Murphy’s ice cream yet? It’s amazing.

[@landonkissell]

I have a video of Irish food review coming out on March 12th. unfortunately was not able to make it to murphy’s 😢

[@jgg59]

@@landonkissell I hope you treated yourself to a nice restaurant. A great restaurant in Dublin and Temple bars called the Boxty House traditional Irish food, but upscaled with a modern twist.

[@landonkissell]

@@jgg59 Of the places I recorded (I ate at many more places though) I ended up grabbing a meal from Old Mill Restaurant in temple bar. And my friend surprised me some Irish soda bread. I tried many other restaurants in the city in non-touristy areas (and across the country) but I only thought about recording myself trying the food until the very end of the trip. Wish I recorded more! And in the video I used Shepards pie and cottage pie interchangeably (which I learned they are not) so ignore that during the video😅

[@jgg59]

@@landonkissell yes, shepherds pie is lamb and cottage beef. Boxty House is not cheap but I love boxty it’s a potato pancake incredible made with mashed potatoes, shred raw potato, flour baking soda, egg scallions it’s a very savory pancake. Well, I look forward to your video

[@landonkissell]

@@jgg59 that sounds SO good. I’m sure I walked by Boxty House. And great, looking forward to you tuning in!

[@natedogg5708]

Not rugby fields, gaa fields

[@landonkissell]

Good catch!

[@johnmc3862]

The hippie capital of Ireland. 😂

[@landonkissell]

Haha why do people consider it that

[@davidwalshe4240]

The call it the "Grave yard of ambition" as is generally a comfortable place to live (minus the traffic)

[@landonkissell]

@@davidwalshe4240 haha ahh I see as people don’t feel the need to push themselves because they’re already in a very nice economic position