The Best of West Ireland: Dingle, Galway, and the Aran Islands 

Irish music is a real treasure. Thanks from America.

I was so lucky to be born in the beatiful Netherlands, but closed Ireland also in my heart, when i came there the first time, some years ago! Especially, the amazing west-coast! and all over Ireland the friendly, kind Irish!

I just came back from a eight day tour "Heart of Ireland"...I am so in love with this country. My life is so enriched by one of your tours. I had so much to process that these videos are helping me re-live my wonderful time. Our guide and bus driver were amazing and the places we viewed and stayed were so wonderful The food was the best ever. Loved my tour.

Am from MacDonalds, O'donnells - Scots mixing with Irish... also French Hugenot stock... Ireland & it's people are fascinatingly, hauntingly beautiful...

Beautiful Ireland💖💖

Thank you, Rick!

Wonderful to see your whole family, terrific video!

We love to sing and dance,but when upset and angry ready to fight and very fierce,but love the company of lots of people and family,we try to get along have strong faith!!

I visited Galway and Dingle just 2 weeks ago and can attest all Rick says is true. Dingle is a truly enchanting place with the most wonderful pubs and food. The people are the friendliest I have ever met. If you get the chance to visit take it, you won't be disappointed.

Looks like a great place that only needs to be visited once, must add it to the list of places to visit 😃

Some of the pubs you'll fall out of at 3 or 4 am .

did that man say "póg mo thóin" at 3:39? 🤣

Why he would use 480p is beyond me.

I cast my father's ashes into the sea at Inch beach on the Dingle peninsula, where he buried his faithful collie.

Rick Steve's travel videos is pure bliss. His art of storytelling, the history of every place, he visits is just fascinating.

I love that they are teaching the younger generation how to speak the old language and learn the old traditions.

When I loved in Ireland, back in the early 70's, Ireland was a poor country. They decided to put everything they could into the education of their children. Today, the country is thriving. Maybe we should do the same.

Have you lived here all your life? "Not yet." Too good.

Rick, not "To Hell or to Connemara". Cromwell said "Too Hell or to Connaught" Trust me on this. It's the one history lesson no school omits. He was referring to the land west of the Shannon.

You know that Ireland and scotland make the bestwarm and beautiful very thick cableknit sweaters,hats,and scarves,both places delicious fish and chips,cabbages and sausages with baking soda bread,yum!!!

I love Ireland. As beautiful as the land is, so are the people

If you want to see ancient remote Ireland untouched by commercialism you need to go the capital of the Connachta, where legends began, here Halloween was born, where the past is part of the present and time stands still. That place is County Roscommon.

This year I was in Ireland. It's a wonderful and beautiful country, I love the landscape, music, pubs, people, towns (Killarney, Kilkenny and Galway), sea and national parks:)

When you visit Ireland you leave a little of your soul there. Ireland echo’s in the heart forever.

If you went strawberry picking in Dingle would you come home with a basket full of Dingleberries?

I am from Cork and pure Irish. This is one of the best videos about the West i've ever seen. Well done and thank you.

My sister and I are going to Ireland next month to visit the great country from where our grandfathers came. I am so excited! We are going to stay near Sligo. However, we are renting a car to see the country. I would love to visit with the locals and chat of old times and sweet memories including the hard times as well. Hope to get to spend most of my time with locals and farmers. I may write a book! Expecting a wonderful time making new memories in Ireland and making new forever friends!

This show is such hard core 90s nostalgia and I am LIVING FOR IT 💙❤️💚🧡💛💜🍀

There was plenty of other food in Ireland during the famine, but it was all exported by the British.

Thanks for this, I first ventured all of this area in the late 80s/early 90s and went back in the late 90s ... I think its time to go back again !.

Mr. Steve’s, My wife and I visited Ireland a few years back. I just found your RU-vid videos and enjoy them much more than the television. I watch them multiple times! Your are, without question, in my opinion, the best tour guide. I thank you for the considerable skill and work you’ve put into providing us with these tours. Jeff, from Texas

I don't think 'craic' just means conversation. It's more about having 'a good time' and can apply to anything that is enjoyable/fun/exciting.

You were doing all right until you called it a "potato famine" it was a famine caused by potato blight. There would have been no famine if the Irish were allowed eat the other food that was exported.

Rick should make a documentary/ history about the real famine . I Grew up in small town in the west of Ireland . Beautiful. Breath taking views

A short tribute to one of the greatest places on earth. I've been the entire way from Mizen Head to just north of Donegal along the wild Western coast with a native Irish friend from Rathkeale, Co Limerick. It was the most memorable and beautiful journey of my life. Go if you can. You will never regret it!

"Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it." - Karol Józef Wojtyła

who saw this video in 2020 like me?? i like it very much

Just returned from my first Dingle trip- no place has touched my soul the way that place has! I'm planning a return trip in a few years for sure. BTW, I lucked out with a REALLY mild Late Fall trip, with no crowds to speak of.

Thank you so much, Rick, for many of your wonderful videos which I have been enjoying very much. Hope one day you will get to visit my country, Thailand, and I will be happy to be your personal tour guide.

Nothing beats the fresh irish air.

great video. ireland is a beautiful place. great landscapes with nice hiking trails, friendly and open-hearted people :)

What a great place Ireland Dingle being one of the best towns in it. Spent three days in Dingle last September 2017 now back in Ohio usa. My dad's mother was from Cork Ireland. My heart aches for me Homeland. Thank you Rick Steves find job and a good man you are. Ireland a republic, proud and strong. .much like USA ...was. We need to strengthen our hearts my fellow country men and women and return, and to regain our Republic.

For those wishing to fly into Ireland, I would suggest that you consider using Shannon Airport for several reasons unless you have business in Dublin, etc. The airport is rather centrally located, they have direct flights from the US, with customs infrastructure going in both directions and the Irish rental vehicle GPS system is second to none. We've travelled the major motorways, by-ways and lesser roads with ease using this system and never once opened a map or got lost. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Our way of travelling might not suit everyone, but we generally pick an area or town to visit, drive that direction, often stopping along the way for whatever grabs our attention to shop, eat, drink, take pictures, chat up the locals and then continue on. Driving is easy as long as you understand that the smaller roads are more scenic but take longer and the roundabouts can be fun as long as you follow the Irish driving rules. For my first trip, I used RU-vid to learn to circumnavigate the roundabouts properly and had no issues getting around them. Another plus, is that Ireland accepts your US driver's License without the need to qualify for or purchase an International driver's license. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~In two weeks, we saw exactly one police officer and he was going into the sub-station near the Muckross House for shift change. The biggest disappointment I ever had in or with Ireland, is that they haven't learned to how to stretch my vacation time any out longer yet. We are already planning a return trip and will be going back soon. ~~ I cannot wait to return.

Slainte Rick, Im living in Ireland all my life and have learned a good bit from this. It makes me want to go and see more of my homeland. Go raibh maith agat.

Ireland is a very beautiful country, with the windswept coastlines and the distinct tone of music, a tone of sadness though.

Very picturesque and wonderful for tourist's especially us Aussie's, great little docu:::)) Cheer's from Australia

Very beautiful. I'm planning to do my exchange semester in Ireland next summer. I'm looking forward to experiencing the beauty and everything of Ireland ❤❤❤

The narrator needs to look into history a bit more. During the famine English landlords were exporting foodstuffs from Ireland. Blight caused potato failure but the English caused the famine!

irish people most beautiful people i found

I was born in Ballygar co.Galway now live on Long Island N Y but still love my native country .Thanks for the great video.

IRELAND... I hope one day I can visit this place or stay for the rest of my life .. but how??

I love entire Ireland. It is beautiful land with good and courteous people.

You need to educate yourself about the Irish starvation when tons and tons of food was shipped out of Ireland under armed guard . 65 million Irish starved and not because of the potatoes the biggest lies ever told 6.5 million Irish were starved, Chris Fogerty has all the evidence read his work. Stop telling a lie about the Irish.

To see Irish dancers with exposed midriff is a little shocking.The traditional Irish dancing costume looks more suitable.Our Irish dancing master would not allow the female dancers to wear trousers.He was a strict man who had our total respect. Please show the visitors and tourists our traditional Irish dance costume.A dress with traditional embroidery of Celtic design.Finished with a shawl and crochet collar and cuffs.The shawl held at the shoulder with a traditional, Celtic cluster of stones in a brotche.

Just love the wild flower variety explaination about the various origins of the plants.💐💮🌸🍀💐💮🌸🍀💐💮🌸🍀💐💮🌸🍀💐💮🌸🍀💐💮🌸🍀💐💮🌸🍀💐💮🌸🍀💐💮🌸🍀💐💮🌸🍀💐💮🌸🍀💐💮

what a wonderful family trip you had...I am sorry you got a divorce...beautiful wife and kids!

I love Australia the Country of my birth but I have always felt the need & call to go to Ireland I love everythink Irish my late Nana was my best friend & Irish she was my sunshine on a rainy day,I love everythink about Ireland!I can not explain it come,s from the inside, my GreatgrandPop died at 93 in Australia but he went back to Ireland at 72 by Plane & Ship he had left at 23 he still had a living brother and Family I hold today a little card he wrote on REMEMBER I ALWAYS LOVED MY DEAR PATIVE ERIN THROUGH I WAS FARE FROM HER LOVELY CHORES BOB MCSWEENEY BORN TO Eugene Sweeney & Catherine Howard 2 of his couins Richard & Bob Howard came to Australia the older brother put his younger brother through schooling to become a chemist,they adpoted my Nans mothers mum& called her Nan. I just love Ireland and I love the rain ,I can feel the passion my family had for the land of there birth Australia has a lot of Irish heritage as they helped by Force or Choice to build the beinging of a Nation,I mean no offence to Australia it is a wonderful Country but I have always rembered my Great Pops love for A Country he yearned for, I often think how hard it must have been for there families knowing they would maybe never see esch other again my Nan,s Nan came to Australia with her to Sister,Husband & 2 yr old who died 3 days after landing in 1896,her father cursed them for leaving & breaking his wife,s heart n his My Nan was asked by her Nan to Name my mum if a boy after him My Nan,s mum died when my mum was 6 month,s my Nan & pop lived with Catherine Dolan Maiden name Mc Teague her father was Berdaird Mc Teague his wife Catherine Prior from Limmerick,when I was a kid we would go Irish dancing. A beautiful Country with proud lovely people a Country with history,Culture & Colour beautful green grass lovely seaside,s beautiful laughter & get togethers . Thanking for all of you who make these beautiful tapes of Ireland I love watching them.

This is a touching documentary ; you must have roots close by. These are ancient lands, where so much happened. I appreciate how you put into perspective the cruel harm done to the Irish through the centuries by the Brits. Cromwell was a nasty piece of work, and his generals were no better. The modern threat (international assassins) are the cosmopolite Bankers. For God's sake, KEEP THEM AWAY FOR EVER. Their specialty is taking over (through finance, the only thing they know) local culture and and stifling it, while soon after claiming it to be theirs. An old Robber Tribe tactic they're fond of resorting to. In the meantime God protect and preserve Eire. May she and her people live and thrive INDEPENDENTLY forever.

I live and love Ireland, the only issue is the Leprechauns have my house plagued, once they get on you land its hard to get rid of them other then that Ireland, is a great place to live ☘

i visited dingle once from Cork city... its just beautiful.. lotto=live there...

That's a wonderful place. I would live there, easily.

In Mexico we remember John Riley and the braves ireland warriors who fight in the mexican side against the US imperialism. THANKS for your sacrifice Viva Irlanda!!!! Viva México!!!!. Sorry mi english is not so good.

I was here in 2013, and I can't wait to go back!! If you haven't read her, you need to find Felicity Hayes-McCoy 's books - they all take place on the Dingle peninsula!! Lovely books by a lovely lady!!

Sadly, Fungi the friendly dolphin has been missing for a few weeks. The whole of Ireland is gutted. Dingle is absolutely stunning on a clear, rain free day. I spent a few summers in the Irish collages around dingle. Great experience. My Irish language skills are still woeful though ( my fault, not the Irish teachers).

I can resonate with this..loved my 15 years in Ireland. It went by so quick. One day I will be back there to show my kids around like I showed thousands of others via my channel videos

anyone else wish Rick Steves was their Dad? #hugefan

Great video. I've been to all the places covered. I wish this video covered the Beara Peninsula. I walked coast-to-coast across Ireland in the summer of 2013, and the Beara was my favourite part of the whole walk. Walked the whole circumference of it. So wild and green!

beautiful country .. i wish i can visit

The next Parish over is Newfoundland!

24:57 “There was no priest” Irish: *okay* “No doctor” Irish: *okay* “And no pub” Irish: *Nooooooooooooo* 😂😂

I saw this today on June 17th 2019 and this part of the Emerald Isle more got the Iona classic, "Irish Day" flowing in my head. And playing that along side these beautiful verdant hills across the ancient western coast just hit me in the heart strings. I don't know how one could be Irish and not get teary-eyed to that song. One day I will go there. It's a quest that this Alabama-born son from a family of Joneses wouldn't miss for anything.

Great Ireland; the culture, the places and famous for your celtic music, wonderful!

Sir I liked your program very much. You talked about what the English did to the Irish taken land . At the start the map showed a border dividing north of Ireland I am from the North I find this to be an insult. I consider myself full Irish citizen that border is man made and is approaching one hundred years old.

Rick,Ireland is the whole island!!!!!!!

There was no famine in Ireland. The British starved the Irish intentionally. Plenty of food in Ireland at the time.

So very rich. I love Rick Steves’ approach to life, Europe, and his wonderful tours. Wish I could take every last one of them. The videos scratch a bit of that itch.

Ireland has become a popular destination for White South Africans to immigrate to. Been here a year myself and i can see why, its awesome to feel safe !

How refreshing those Irish teens looked. None had their eyebrows, lips, cheeks, or tongues full of piercings. The girls didn't have their faces caked with make up, or blue hair, and the boys had regular hair cuts and dressed like boys! In the states these days at times it is difficult to tell the boys from the girls and visa versa.

Lovely country and lovely people. Was always treated very well in there. Lived there for 2 years and im seriously considering going back in the future.

Beautiful ☘️ and it’s fantastic to meet so many people of irish heritage ☘️🍺

I love the way this place looks, so amazing! My family came from Ireland somewhere, back then. I would sure love to live there, and marry some old school country gal, live old school. Do those good women still exist there? Does that kind of clean honest rural life still exist there? If anyone knows, let me know. That would be my dream!

Hitchhiking from Dublin to Galway and back is one of the best ways to know Ireland and the Irish.

Let's go to Ireland.

I am going to Ireland with some of my friends on a school trip this upcoming summer. We will also go to Scotland and England.

I enjoyed all of Ireland but the west coast is the best, from the Cliffs of Mohr to Westport. We loved it all. Especially the people

When I was in Ireland I visited Cork, Kinsale, Killarney and Tralee. The food with sheep, potatoes and fine vegetables was good. The rosegarden in Tralee was very pretty. People are so encouraging, even then it rains all the time. Very friendly people.

As good as Rick always is, you can tell he was really "jazzed" about this trip to Ireland because this tour has that "little something extra". I enjoyed it immensely.

Big shout out to the people of the Republic and of the Six Counties. Am from Australia, had the greatest time recently. Mind-blowing how much beautiful scenery, mountains, castles etc are crammed into an island nation probably about 1 tenth the size of New South Wales (I know for a fact that driving from Sydney to Newcastle which are well within the borders of New South Wales is the equivalent of driving from Cork to Belfast which are at opposite ends of the country. Incredible! Love the people there! The pubs are fantastic! Went to Ireland for a cultural experience and because I love all things Titanic. Ended up having the mightiest craic. And I will be back. Incredible country

I was in dublin and galway one week ago. one of beautiful countries. Loved ppl there. Id love to visit again soon.

big show for the yanks,we all speak irish and hop around all day to the diddle idle do.

Ireland is a good and peaceful country,, It's good for study, Study of Ireland known in whole the world,, I like universities of Ireland so much,, it provides best facilities to the student, I like it so much

Dingle is one of the most Beautiful places on the face of this earth

I've visited and lived in Europe, and the British Isles. A farm in SE England is home for my daughter and her family. My visits to Ireland are always in the west of the Isle. Thaveling around country roads brought me by "The Quietman Bridge" a bridge made famous by John Wayne et al. The west of Ireland is my favorite place.

How is this the best of west Ireland . Did you run out of petrol and couldn't be bothered visiting Sligo or Donegal.

thanks for posting much enjoyed visiting again soon

The music is lovely. The scenery is amazing! How I yearn to go there. ❤️🌹❤️

blasket islands reminds of the great movie 'Ryan's Daughter' .I enjoyed watching this movie just as much as I watched this documentary about Ireland.

I found it great.Sure I cannot understand all,but a lot of the rough and beauty come over!The landscape is great.The simply people too!

Truly awesome sir. I've friends from Galway,and Ballinasloe, and it's nice for me to see that.

Makes me excited to move to Galway next month! :D Thanks for this video!