26 Things to See in Galway in an Afternoon - 022

[@tommyshanesmith]

REGARDING THE CLADDAGH RING: I've gotten so much crap about this from everyone. I've been saying for years that we need relationship status rings for single people and dating people... TURNS OUT IT ALREADY EXISTED. I'm sad the list of cool things didn't explain more about the ring. Sad days.

[@stevehiggins6929]

You dismissed one of the most famous things to ever come out of Ireland.

[@crazychick3021]

Hi did you manage to go to 50 countries?

[@frempy4426]

Yeeeah cool video but come on don’t insult a culture you’re a guest to like that

[@BeeRaider1]

Enjoyed the video but you spoiled it with the ending by littering the river! Please don't litter Ireland!

[@bullseye1784]

I’m from Clare, and without being biased, Clare and Galway are the best counties in Ireland. The west coast is where it’s at 🇮🇪

[@pmal9535]

What is the worst co in ireland?

[@bullseye1784]

@@pmal9535 There’s lots 🤣 Laois maybe, Longford, anywhere in the midlands there isn’t much cuz it’s just farms, but coastal counties are nice cuz they all got beaches and nice little towns around the beach, and then obviously some counties got cities like Dublin, Galway, Limerick, Cork and then Antrim has Belfast city so there’s lots of nice counties, but the middle counties in the country are kinda boring. Laois, Longford, Leitrim, Carlow is kinda boring too except it has Carlow town but you wouldn’t choose to go to Carlow town to visit if you have the opportunity to visit Galway or Cork you know 🤣

[@pmal9535]

I am 14y in ireland. In 2010/11 been working as a van driver. Have done whole ROI begin Malin head across to Mizen Head nd very west across to very east. I am fully agreed with you in 100% all co around Ireland are the best!!!! Beautiful places. Currently based in Dublin bcoz of job. But I am 🤮 of this city. All the best mate

[@eyan4329]

@@bullseye1784 Louth

[@BrandonHilikus]

Kerry

[@PudgyPedalPusher]

You literally wrote off the most globally prominent thing Galway offers the world regarding the Claddagh Ring… #TokenAmericanTourist

[@Lavendersun97]

Lolol love the humor. Thank you for the info!!

[@remi.clark06]

Glad you made it there. One of my favorite cities and wished I had more time to spend there. Really enjoy watching your travels!

[@tommyshanesmith]

Thanks so much Holly!!! :)

[@mosherchoker]

Haha really? That ‘old boring ring’ has a lot of history to it it nearly needs a video of its own!

[@alexblower]

I stayed in Galway last February. I stayed in the Skeff on Ayre Square. Loved it there.

[@isukdik304]

Eyre Square* :)

[@alexblower]

@@isukdik304 I'll sleep better now. Thanks pal.

[@PKelly-sv3bb]

It's actually pronounced EYRE SQUARE NOT AYRE SQUARE 🤦‍♀️

[@kclausen33]

I liked this one! It was fun seeing you walk in some of the same places I've walked! And also, the Claddagh ring is cool...don't diss it!

[@tommyshanesmith]

Thanks Kelly!!! 😄 AND I KNOW... EVERYONE keeps telling me that... I just wish that the Tourist Office's little fact sheet would've given more information about it... I've literally been saying for years that we need relationship status rings for people who aren't engaged or married.... welp.

[@laninepomuceno6774]

God bless us start and end your day with our ALMIGHTY GOD. THANK you so much and regards to all of you there in your country. Thanks

[@arlesoto5657]

Thanks for the Video. A Lot information

[@krishnavaikhary7210]

I'm pretty much excited to watch this video because I've arrived to Galway before a month as I got job here. Thank you very much to introduce the cool things of the city to me! And you know, i walk through the Cathedral road every morning and evening. Just coolll!!!!

[@PilgrimNinja]

You were kind of rude to the history of Galway. Be more respectful, though probably not something you were taught.

[@gingerroot8802]

Not all of us americans are like this, I promise. Maybe he doesn't have enough ancestry, but my irish raised grandpa would have killed me if I acted like this clown.

[@lucymagee3654]

That boring ring????? 🤦🏼‍♀️ oh dear

[@exploreearth6275]

Galway has so many beautiful places

[@JesusSantos-y1f]

Love and friendship reign supreme

[@cahalhayes9192]

Christopher Columbus visited Galway to obtain charts that St Brendan made hundreds of years earlier as he documented finding a new land far out to the west

[@jgdooley2003]

There are stories that some artifacts such as canoes and logs with carvings recognisably of human origin used to be washed up on the West coast of Ireland so that Medieval Irish people used to speculate about inhabited lands to the west. This could have led Columbus to search for a direct sea route to the Eastern countries of China and Japan to avoid the overland routes, the Silk Road which were the only way to link East and West in those days. St Nicholas Collegiate Church is so called because it was originally a separate church, independent of the Diocese in the surrounding countryside. Galway city was an English speaking, Anglo Norman enclave surrounded on all sides by Irish speaking people with a different church structure and governance. It was originally a Catholic Church as were all English Churches until the reformation in the 1540's when it became a church of the Anglican Communion. It still is an active church for Galways very small Anglican community. Relations between both the Anglican Community and the majority Catholic community in Galway are considered very good, peaceful and cordial, unlike the tragic sectarian differences in the North of Ireland. The war to which the video broadcaster refers was the Cromwellian wars of 1641 when the Church was vandalised by Puritan forces under Cromwell and used as a stable for his horses. In complex political wars in England and Scotland there was great enmity between established Anglican churches and the Parliamentarian forces who had a more fundamentalist protestant faith. Most hated by English forces at this time were native Irish Catholics, loyal to the Church of Rome. The English Civil war spilled over into Ireland at this time and resulted in the depopulation and confiscation of Property in Galway and cut off its ties to Spain which resulted in its economic downfall. I was born in Galway city in 1958 when its population dropped below 20,000 people, its lowest population since Medieval times. Famine, perennial emigration and economic depression was the lot of most Galway people at that time. Modern day Galway has been transformed dramatically since the mid 1980's and it is now the fastest growing city in Europe. The surrounding county and region has not enjoyed fast growth however and is still depressed.

[@corys.3692]

Thanks for this interesting Tour. In 3 weeks we drive to Galway from Doolin, a day Trip

[@albertol.verdeciaa.3816]

Dude! Thanks for the video!

[@margaritalorca5029]

Hi there! I have to add to this video that Colombus was from Genova, but it was the SPANISH CROWN with ISABEL AND FERNADO , who paid the expedition, and accidentally they found a new land for Euepean citizents. ;-)

[@brickedupdude7451]

I live in Galway. every Saturday I go Around Galway at the evening !

[@Marley-wy3bb]

Fantastic, I might see you around the Spanish arch Saturday night

[@brickedupdude7451]

@@Marley-wy3bb Absaloutly amazing!

[@ierardik]

Perfect tour! Thank you.

[@katenoke1571]

taibhdhearc is pronounced "Thive (rhymes with five) - yark." I grew up in Galway. Actually acted in an Irish language school play there

[@keiradolan3033]

Omg I always go to ayres Square and I live in Galway and I always go to all of those shops you showed

[@nataliemillerheuvel6743]

Great post! Thanks for sharing 🙂

[@fdoy]

My daughter has traveled the world and said Galway is by far the best City ever. The food is amazing too.

[@benflynn6679]

Ya I live in Galway and there is so much food everywhere, I love Galway too it’s such a nice city

[@priscilla_ryan]

This is great and so fun to explore... even through this video. 🥰

[@abigailnevin8996]

in Ireland shopping malls are actually called shopping centers

[@GeorgeVenturi]

Cool at all the Spanish ancient connections in such a small city!!

[@Stopfishswim]

That was quite a rude comment "that boring ring"

[@jgdooley2003]

The Claddagh is a fishing village right next to the old city of Galway on the right ( west) bank of the river Corrib. They were mostly Irish speaking self-ruled people with their own local laws, customs and even had a King. The ring has a heart and a crown on it, worn upside down indicated a single person, right side up indicated a married person. They were worn by both men and women in the old days. Claddagh women used to sell locally caught fish on the Spanish Arch pier just right outside the old city walls when I was a kid, back in the early 1960's. I attended school with many of their children who were tough, resourceful and hardy sailors and traders, used to a hard days work. Child labour was common in those days and teenage sailors were the norm. Local boats are now mostly used as a hobby and commercial fishing is relocated to more western ports on the North Shore of Galway Bay, in ports like Rossaveal.

[@Vincentmc01]

Great day trip. Galway deserves another trip though, and its pronounced t-ive-yark, one of the best irish language theater companies. Also, you should check out O'Conners bar in Salthil for a true pub experience

[@Samwize1]

I really enjoy your cinematography, man. I feel like I’ve been transported to so many new and beautiful places. Also, I could use some of that weather right about now 😅

[@tommyshanesmith]

Thanks so much Sam!!! 😄 LOVE to hear that ❤️ And I completely agree... Lana Del Rey was completely right about that Summertime Sadness...

[@COUNTYGAINS]

GALWAY FTW!!

[@laninepomuceno6774]

God bless us and let us help one another to back to normal our situation and back to school the children and youth. Thank you so much po. From Lani D. Nepomuceno, Philippines

[@abigailnevin8996]

Claddagh is a ring that symbols love

[@petermgruhn]

Yay. You went to the mall.

[@ricksorkin2522]

Well done

[@patrickfitzgerald8621]

Columbus stopped in Galway to recruit his Irish navigator.

[@BrandonHilikus]

Poor irish lad

[@arlesoto5657]

One question .... In Irland can I drink Tap water ??? Or its better buy water in bottles ?? :)

[@fergalhughes165]

"Gaol" (as in the Galway Gaol) is pronounced 'jail' .. which funnily enough is what it is

[@johnnyglynn3323]

Ya, you got it wrong about the Claddagh ring bud, but hey.

[@edh533]

i regret wasting my time watching this. jeeze - rude.

[@europeanlover]

Galway deserve to be the new “Luxembourg “ and tourism more developed than Amsterdam. People in Galway looks best of world. Irish are the best love them 🎉

[@thejoepena]

Cold brew to good is a win win

[@aurorakarolyn]

I just learned so much about my own city, p cool

[@manchesthairutd4525]

I WAS IN THE DRUID THEATRE FOR A SHAKESPEARE PLAY oh and I go shopping with my parents near aire square

[@MrGylanThomas]

The claddagh ring doesn't sound interesting? Pretty dismissive...

[@alancuddy2678]

Best County in the country

[@crazychick3021]

Love you videos

[@guilhermeribeiro5097]

Hi !!, Good videos !! I liked a lot. I'm following you now

[@ericfreeman273]

Looks great you're a champion 💯 you're so dope 👋👍💯

[@abigailnevin8996]

the water does be black and brown

[@telemachus53]

"Ga-ol"! Pronounced "Jail" and means that. it's the way it's spelt in the UK. BTW you didn't go visit the "King's Head", a beautiful pub founded by King Charles I's executioner! Should've been on your list! The River Corrib flowing through the city and the canal make Galway one of the most photogenic cities I've ever been to.

[@SoulTarot90]

Your channel is so underestimated!!! Why u stopped making videos 2 years ago!!!!!?????

[@tryncebrandt8118]

LOL. Bro, that Coffeewerk + Press is on my list of places to go in Galway! 😂 This video cracked me up! Love how you acted like you knew all that info.

[@tommyshanesmith]

Hahaha it was the perfect pick me up to power through the rest of the evening! But seriously, I know right? 😂 TBH I end up doing half of the research for the facts in my videos literally five minutes before I record the clip, so this isn't too far away from typical... I'm just acknowledging it here 😉😬🤷🏻‍♂️😂

[@abigailnevin8996]

the ring is not that boring

[@tabithagrace3008]

Is no one gonna talk about how one of the old women is sitting on Oscar Wilde's lap?

[@laffey6546]

Where you gone bro

[@judyengle7728]

Slightly snarky. Be respectful. I am sure you have seen how hospitable the Irish are.

[@gg79139]

You have been very rude

[@CoryFalde175]

He finished his list and it blew away into a river hahaha

[@sonozaki0000]

"You don't need me anymore... be free"

[@jrawlins529]

Dont litter and have some respect for our history aswell

[@galwaygirl4916]

👏👏👏👏

[@willhovell9019]

Great stuff , but he looks over 40 years old

[@sk2galway]

The Spanish arch is because like 200 Spanish traders were hung

[@hanafiabouriga8484]

Hello desde 🇪🇸👉👩🏽👋

[@jackdarren9210]

What happen to you? Where are you at?

[@lcmayzl]

christopher columbus did not discover America -- he actually landed in central America.

[@DavidBrown-et6dj]

Educated, or not…… In the US!

[@lew3057]

Go American educational system 😮

[@indiantinamorals5791]

.....honestly, why bother? Everywhere closed, dissing the "famous" Claddagh Ring, which was originally used as a wedding ring, etc.!

[@buzzmooney2801]

"Yeah, so this a a place that has something to do with some old thing; whatevs..." No doubt the Galway Tourist Board will soon throw loads of cash at you, to buy your video.

[@domocullen2763]

All the mosque and immigrant

[@colebradley3401]

I liked Galway but it was a bit small and slow to me. Its good for maybe a day and a half or 2 days at most I think. Also that ring kind of has an interesting back story, the claddagh ring. I would look it up just for fun. Travel On la

[@tommyshanesmith]

Cole Bradley For sure! Even though a lot of things were closed, I didn’t really feel like I was shortchanged or anything... you’re the second person to mention the ring to me though... I’m blaming the tourist office for not making the fact sheet interesting enough! 😅😐

[@petermgruhn]

Crap.

[@PaulGappyNorris]

I live in Kerry and have been to Galway a few times…nothing special about it, very overrated and essentially just another ‘tourist town’ for the masses - as is most of Ireland,

[@sc1837]

Take away don't bother going to Galway. Such a disappointing place to visit.

[@jgdooley2003]

It depends on what you are into. I do not regard Galway as a beach or Sun destination. Weather not reliable enough. Most people travel there for parties and social get togethers and if they have an ancestral connection to the place. The city has been subject to a lot of hype and fashionable trend setting nonsense which takes away from its original role as a trading centre for the West of Ireland. Its later role as an Educational centre for the West has given rise to a young, vibrant and trendy image completely at odds to the surrounding hinterland which is an economic and depressed wasteland, peopled only by old people because all the young have gone off in search of work. Rather like the south of Italy and rural France where young people move to the Big cities to escape poverty and unemployment. In the present COVID19 madness Galway must be a very grim place as the pub culture and live music was its only saving grace. Forget about reliable outside dining, weather is too unreliable for that.

[@sc1837]

@@jgdooley2003 a lot of people love the trendy stuff. I would recommend kinsale or dingle instead.

[@xatz8527]

@@sc1837There always has to be an exception to prove the rule I suppose.

[@MrFuzzydumplings]

@@sc1837 Galway is way better than dingle, dingle is just a tiny tourist trap.

[@sarahann530]

@@MrFuzzydumplings Dingle has gone to shit since Fungi left