Galway Tour Guides

20/04/2023

Great to see one of our Guides Galway Trails made the shortlist for Gradam Sheosamh Uí Ógartaigh 2023, award for doing business in Irish and English.
has bilingual status in Irish and English since 2016...

22/03/2023

Irish tour in Galway...Saturday

26/02/2023

Nice report on our website launch in the Connacht Tribune - Galway City Tribune this week...

A new one-stop shop for tourists and visitors to Galway to link in with tour guides has been created aimed at making it easier to source qualified professionals of all hues. The Galway Tour Guides Association chose Tuesday, International Tour Guide Day, to launch the revamped website featuring over....

22/02/2023

Was yesterday in fact

21/02/2023

Official launch of our new revamped website today in The Hardiman Hotel, Galway...

20/02/2023

Official launch of our new revamped website is tomorrow at midday, The Hardiman, Galway.

A page about Galway Tour Guides Association by Galway Tour Guides Association

13/02/2023

Check out our new website folks...we'll keep you posted about the official launch.

A page about Galway Tour Guides Association by Galway Tour Guides Association

22/01/2023

1957

13/01/2023

Eoin Holohan, location manager for The Banshees of Inisherin, says they spent a long time looking for the perfect spots to film the award-winning film - and wanted to show Ireland's stunning natural beauty.

'We scouted the entire west coast and we were looking for coastal locations that would suggest an island and no visible modernity – still kind of untouched. We went for Inis Mór, because the patchwork of fields and the stone walls are very unique to the Aran Islands. And we found a great location on Inis Mór that gave us that.

And then the island needed a contrast to that for Brendan Gleeson’s character Colm. He needed to live almost in an idyllic and lyrical setting – and that brought us to Keem Beach in Achill. I don’t mind saying it is probably the most beautiful beach in Ireland'

31/10/2022

One of our Guides Galway Trails is now a featured Tour Guide on the Canada-based Travel website Toursbylocals, offering 3 quality tour guiding experiences around and the West...



https://www.toursbylocals.com/galway-private-tour-guide-jim-w?fbclid=IwAR1lacXUFtfNJtQ--B7aExey3BIWMYHmX3ovY_bMcze8Bc9Eg0qZn3GtUQk

Galway tours by Jim W., a private tour guide in Galway. Tour Guide for Galway and the West of Ireland. Published writer & poet, Artist,,...

17/10/2022

One of our Guides Galway Trails is now featured on German Travel website Momondo as a Galway city guide.

Entdecke das Beste von Galway. Erfahre, was du unternehmen kannst, wo du übernachten kannst, was du nicht verpassen darfst und vieles mehr auf momondo.

10/10/2022

Burren Winterage Weekend - presenting our full programme! Join us for a celebration of this most significant annual event in the Burren's farming calendar. Booking through burrenwinterage.com
Our sincere thanks to all our project partners, contributors, volunteers and members who have helped us put together this programme. Thanks for funding support - Dept. of Agriculture, The Heritage Council, Burren Programme, Farming for Nature, FBD Insurance

Clare FM Visit the Burren Clare County Council Clare Public Participation Network Galway City Council

10/10/2022

Fáilte Ireland hosted a special event for the Galway city tourism industry in The Dean Galway where over 150 tourism businesses attended.

10/10/2022

Galway Docklands Festival

08/09/2022

South East Galway Local History Course

A local history course is being run in Portumna Community School during the autumn of 2022 and the spring of 2023. The course covers a wide range of topics such as local history sources, reading the local landscape, Irish placenames, folklore, the Big House, the Great Famine, the Land War, education, War of Independence and lots more. A walking tour of Galway City is included as is a day-long trip to visit some Dublin’s repositories. A field trip of the local area will also be undertaken.

The course is delivered by a team of lecturers that includes Marie Boran (Landed Estates Database), Dr Liam O’Haispeal (Placenames) Dr Tomas MacConmara (Folklore) Cormac McCarty (River Shannon) James Scully (Napoleonic fortifications) and others. The three-hour sessions take place on Tuesday evenings with the first of these scheduled to begin on Tuesday, 27 September. For further details and to book a place contact John Joe at 087 2963803 or email him at [email protected].

11/08/2022

New innovation in Galway Tour Guiding...
Galway Trails now offers podcasts about sites of interest around . Posters with QR Codes to link to Tour Guide, Jim Ward's podcasts are now installed in businesses near to the relevant sites. The podcasts vary in length between 5 to over 10 minutes.
From Eyre Square, Galway City Centre, through to The Treasure Chest, Lynch's Castle, The King's Head, Latin Quarter, and so on...
Listen in.

11/08/2022

01/08/2022

Tour of duty to the Cliffs yesterday.
Pics with Amanda, from the Cruiser, view towards Boston (on a clear day), and Cornelius O'Brien's Tower..." called O'Brien's last er****on!" 😆.

21/07/2022

15/07/2022

Man on a wire over the River Corrib

www.wildaboutireland.ie

15/07/2022

Man on a wire over the River Corrib

14/07/2022

Pacheco Exhibition: Shadow of the Wanderer

28/06/2022

Another happy tour of the murals in Galway.

Despite the rain.

These cheerful students from Michigan were a delight to guide off the beaten track to explore the murals of Galway.

Would you like to see the murals? Please contact me.

23/06/2022

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16/06/2022

Galway has more than forty festivals every year.

We can still squeeze in another one.

29/05/2022

Walking tour this evening for Ukrainian refugees in Galway by Guide Jim Ward of www.galwaytrails.ie
This is very rewarding work, especially with Ireland's history of displacement.

11/05/2022

Free Walking Tour of Galway city I gave today for our Ukrainian refugees.
Irish people for generations know the disorientation of finding themselves in a strange country.


www.galwaytrails.ie

27/04/2022

Getting Galway Going... publicised in the The Galway Advertiser recently.
Pleased to report a successful Festival.

https://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/128865/getting-galway-going-the-walking-festival

Galway City has lately been a European Capital of Culture. But, Galway City has always been a County seat, the Capital of Connacht, and the gateway to the Connemara Gaeltacht. In fact, once you cross the River Corrib, you’re officially in Connemara.

27/04/2022

*** OPENING FOR THE 2022 SEASON ON Tuesday, 5th April***

The Irish Workhouse Centre will be re-open for the 2022 season on Tuesday, 5th April. Opening days are TUESDAY-SUNDAY.
GUIDED TOUR TIMES are: 10am, 12 noon, 2pm and 4pm. Advance booking advised (see contact infos below).

🕙 Opening Hours: 6 days a week Tues-Sun
TOURS: 10am - 12 noon - 2pm - 4pm
☎️ (090) 975 9200
💻 [email protected]
🌐 www. irishworkhousecentre.ie
Irish Workhouse Centre &
South East Galway Integrated Rural Development Clg.,
St Brigid's Road, Portumna, Co. Galway. H53 EK74
Visit Portumna Portumna, Co. Galway Shorelines Arts Festival Portumna Town Hall Portumna GAA Discover Lough Derg Waterways Ireland Visit Galway Galway Bay FM Ireland's Hidden Heartland Galway Rural Development Emerald Star - Boating Holidays Visit Lorrha & Dorrha Portumna Community School SuperValu Portumna Portumna Golf Club Portumna Camogie Club Woodford Parish Development Oak Lodge Bed & Breakfast, Portumna Podumna Village, Portumna, Co. Galway Love Portumna

25/04/2022

GETTING GALWAY GOING - some snaps of the very popular walking tour of The Claddagh, from the , FREE tours list.
Walk led by Tour Guide, James Walsh. Great turn out.

24/04/2022

It's Officially closed... Closing Ceremony today by Town Crier, Liam Silke. Ten days of FREE Walking Tours by our guides finished today following a successful Festival.
Large attendances and positive reviews for our team and topics covered. The future of tourism in Galway is good.

20/04/2022

GETTING GALWAY GOING
Some images from the "Galway and Italy - a Shared History" of Tour Guide Patrizia Interlandi Galway e dintorni

19/04/2022

GETTING GALWAY GOING
First 5 days of proving popular and a success.
Some images from the Wonderful Walls tour of Tour Guide Karen O'Leary Tourist Guide ...

15/04/2022

It's now on!
Town Crier and Galway Tour Guide, Liam Silke starts the second today in Eyre Square, Galway City Centre.
Let's enjoy the festival of FREE Walking Tours of Galway. On till 24th April. Book here 👇

www.galwaywalkingfestival.ie

11/04/2022

‘Getting Galway Going’
Where does Galway get its name?
Why is Galway the ‘City of the Tribes’?
Where was the largest uprising in 1916 outside of Dublin?
Do you know the townhouses of Lady Gregory and ‘Humanity Dick’ Martyn?
If you are curious to learn more about our city, then join us for a FREE walking tour of Galway and environs.
From April 15th to 24th, Galway Tour Guides’ Association, in partnership with Galway City Council, is offering FREE walks to the public, covering a variety of interesting aspects of Galway, historic and contemporary. Check out 👇
www.galwaywalkingfestival.ie

The Galway Walking Festival runs over 10 days in July. The festival will showcase 30 walking tours hosted by 20 professionals tour guides. Discover all that is special and unique about Galway's heritage, history, nature and culture. There is something for young and old, a perfect addition to your st...

08/04/2022

Getting Galway Going - Galway Walking Festival 2022 is officially launched today by Mayor of Galway, Cllr Colette Connolly.
www.galwaywalkingfestival.ie

08/04/2022

FREE WALKING TOURS IN GALWAY

08/04/2022

All walks are FREE!