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I watched your video before my trip to Kilkenny in 2023. Most of my tour group took an optional trip to Waterford. I was determined to see Kilkenny on my own. I had an afternoon to explore. Thank you for climbing the tower so I didn't have to. I did see St Candice's Cathedral. So nice. I enjoyed the Rothe House very much. My feet were very tired when I headed for my hotel. I got lost, but a lovely lady working at Aldi's told me how to get back to my hotel. The people of Ireland are so nice! I love Kilkenny! Thanks for your video 😊!

@TheWonderingEnglishman

10 ай бұрын

Wonderful that you got to enjoy it solo rather than with your group! :) and glad you got to experience the lovely Irish warmth. They are great people :)

@DonnaCrotchett-sb6md

9 ай бұрын

@@TheWonderingEnglishman Thank you for your comment!

Wow wow what a beautiful place

Kilkenny retains and embraces its Irish history. If you want the real deal, spend time in Kilkenny and Tipperary County in general. They hold true to their roots.

@TheWonderingEnglishman

Жыл бұрын

Long may that continue and I agree!

I'm researching this city and love how you've captured it. I am a church girl and love how they tell the history of a place. So the churches rock! Thank you from Dallas Texas USA

@TheWonderingEnglishman

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and being part of the video Flower Girl :) I hope you manage to visit Kilkenny and not just research it :)

Great job! Loved Kilkenny

@TheWonderingEnglishman

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Jesus :)

@hankybostik7634

Жыл бұрын

@@TheWonderingEnglishman Jesus….

I came across your video, and i really enjoyed it, thanks 👍🏻

@TheWonderingEnglishman

5 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it Robbie :) More Irish content content to come in the near future :)

Really need to visit :)

When in Kilkenny, a visit to the South Bank pub is a must even if one never has a drink! One of the most beautiful pubs in Ireland, it is more like a conglomeration of several bars

@casteretpollux

3 ай бұрын

I think this is Langtons.

Excellent video. One other place worth a visit is the Clubhouse Hotel. One of the first hotels in Ireland,that becomes apparent once inside! The deers' heads in the restaurant have to be seen

@TheWonderingEnglishman

8 ай бұрын

I’ll check it out next time I’m there :)

Hi I enjoyed the video of Kilkenny but just to correct you on one point, the statue you were referring to is not erected to commemorate Gaelic Football. It was erected to commemorate the past, present and future hurlers of Kilkenny. Kilkenny have won 36 Hurling All Irelands more than any other County in Ireland. I hope you enjoyed your visit to Kilkenny. Regards Chris

@TheWonderingEnglishman

5 ай бұрын

Kilkenny was wonderful - I’ve been back several times since this visit and did a follow up video to correct my Hurling error amongst other misses. Sadly the footage escaped me when my camera equipment was stolen in Egypt of all places! Hopefully I’ll be back to do the follow up it deserves in the summer :)

St Mary's Cathedral is the one you visited, built in 1800s, but you gave it the history of a different church, its now a museum closer to the castle.

@TheWonderingEnglishman

7 ай бұрын

Yes a poor mistake that’s been corrected by a couple of people in the comments now - apologies!

Really enjoyed this! Planning to visit in May. Thank you for providing so much history!

@TheWonderingEnglishman

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it and I hope you enjoy visiting it for yourself :) Many thanks for watching!

Love your videos

@TheWonderingEnglishman

9 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly :)

My wife & I spent a little while in Kilkenny as part of a coach holiday to Ireland the land of her ancestors. We found a place to get a drink where they had a stout from the local brewery.

@TheWonderingEnglishman

2 ай бұрын

I would imagine you were at Sulivans? They produce a Stout in Kilkenny. Or possibly Smitwicks - although unlikely stout - but a great brewery. They have a great Irish red ale. It’s a fantastic little town I’ve been back several times since this video. I feel I should do an update soon.

Really nice video, full of interesting historical information! Thanks, you've got yourself a subscriber.

@TheWonderingEnglishman

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for joining me on the journey and for the kind words 🙏🏻

Really is Ireland's prettiest town.

@TheWonderingEnglishman

Жыл бұрын

I think there are lots of contenders:)

I was in Killkenny in 4/ 2001. I missed seeing inside the castle. Thank you for letting me see the inside. I went to Mary Molloy's Bakery, it being my maiden name. My ancestors came over to America in 1867. I was wondering how they made out during the pandemic. I appreciate you sharing the situation over there. God bless you.

@TheWonderingEnglishman

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Karen :) It’s in part why I make these videos as I realise people past, present and future may want to see these places. Glad I could bring it back to you and fill in the gaps where you missed sights in 2001. More Irish content to come.

I would order a Kilkenny. While in London a few years ago, i had a Watneys Cream ale.....very similar and delish.

The statue isn’t Gaelic football , it’s hurling another Irish sport

@TheWonderingEnglishman

Жыл бұрын

Of course - not the biggest sportsman so messed up there! Thanks for the correction and thank you for watching 👍🏻

A visit to Kytelers Inn is a must for its great music scene. It was visited by one Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful over 50 years ago

@TheWonderingEnglishman

8 ай бұрын

This is a fabulous pub. I ate lunch here when I returned a month ago :)

Pretty sure yer supposed to take off yer cap in church! LOL

Es una ciudad creo muy bonito

@marycraig9434 thank you for the comment. KZread seem to have removed it but I got the email notification. Enjoy Ireland later this year. More Ireland content to come on this channel. Watch this space :)

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It's gaelic hurling....

It's a sore fact with many but it is a matter of fact that Dublin has never been the capital city of Ireland Dublin has only ever been the capital of the Republic of Ireland and the difference between those two is maybe a subject for another day .

Wexford man here ,you better correct your self ,that statue was of Kilkenny hurlers or the cats lol ,not football.

@TheWonderingEnglishman

Ай бұрын

Yes - pointed out by various people in the comments. Hope no offence was caused - I'm not a person that watches much sport. Thanks for watching though!

@nicholasdoyle3810

Ай бұрын

@TheWonderingEnglishman your OK ,great video showing off Ireland 👍

@TheWonderingEnglishman

Ай бұрын

@@nicholasdoyle3810 Thanks very much Sir, more Wonders of Ireland videos on the way :)

50 quid?? I would have bought it for that price

@TheWonderingEnglishman

8 ай бұрын

What was £50?

Afraid you mixed up St Marys Cathedral (1850s) and the much older St Mary's Church (now the Medieval Mile Museum). You talked about the older St Mary's inside the old city walls but showed the much newer St Mary's Cathedral located outside the former city walls and a victoriana construction.

What a beautiful town. In the States, however, we were not informed in time, about the deadly pandemic, by our sociopathic (now former) president; my mother and over a million people died in the first year alone as a result of not shutting down fast enough.

@TheWonderingEnglishman

4 ай бұрын

There’s no evidence 3-4 years later that lockdowns helped anyone. Please go look at all the data and studies that have been done since that show lockdowns clearly didn’t help. They actually did more damage than good. What Americans should have been informed about was risk to people due to lifestyle and diet.

How do we know how many lives pandemic would have claimed if not for lockdown before vaccination saturated population?

@TheWonderingEnglishman

10 ай бұрын

We can look at countries that didn’t lock down and realise they were right and those that locked down were criminal and wrong.

@geraldwalsh6489

8 ай бұрын

Well,Sweden didnt lock down at the start in 2020. Then they realised what a horrific mistake they made and eventually did lock down,thereby saving lives.

@TheWonderingEnglishman

8 ай бұрын

@@geraldwalsh6489 They didnt lock down. They caved to the corrupt press in 2021 and banned gatherings of 8 or more for a brief amount of time. Lockdowns saved no one. They cost lives and resulted in the biggest transfer of wealth in human history. Your Leaders lied to you as did the media.

@TheWonderingEnglishman

8 ай бұрын

@@geraldwalsh6489 One MP finally addressed the problems with lockdowns in this speech kzread.info/dash/bejne/d2hor8lvZ8fFntI.htmlsi=gWn0irt7cC8_uvGR

Little point going to Ireland for historic (as opposed to pre-historic) architecture in Ireland as the tropes are so similar to the English built environment that it’s not anything new for anyone who’s seen UK already. But worth it for the beautiful Celtic nature music and craic

@TheWonderingEnglishman

Жыл бұрын

Can’t you just have more than one dose and enjoy it despite similar things being witnessed in the British Isles?

@jakoflynn2560

Жыл бұрын

@@TheWonderingEnglishman you can but if you’re English it’s dull …just a personal opinion….nothing against it, nice place but I can see that architecture over and over in UK

@TheWonderingEnglishman

Жыл бұрын

@@jakoflynn2560 step back and appreciate it. The British Isles are a unique place. I’m English and love exploring every inch of these Isles. As I’ve aged it’s become even more appealing and this despite seeing almost 90 other countries. The thing that saddens me is seeing the internationalists/Globalists homogenising every European nation all in the name of progress. Enjoy what we have before we lose it. As that’s happening very fast.

@jakoflynn2560

Жыл бұрын

@@TheWonderingEnglishman I’m a post Blair revolution and post Brexit defector on freedom and rights grounds. As a member of the “laptop class” I bailed out 30 years ago. England stifles with its claustrophobia & its climate sucks. But if a bad guy invaded, I’d still return to fight them on the beaches & all that good stuff. We live in a kingdom of woke, state capture and Islamic-feminist alliances. What are and who are “the globalists”? (Ps if war is the outcome of European nationalism why bolster it?)

@TheWonderingEnglishman

Жыл бұрын

We would certainly be on the same team but I’m still holding onto the sinking ship. The Globalists are responsible for the Globohomo post feminist Islamist mess that has swept over the UK. Blair and his crooks began the wave and all that came after him facilitated it further. The country has been sold to the Globalists who are the corporate interests. Where Corporations come before the people. And as borders are knocked down we lose all these things that were once considered by many Brits as simply dull.

Good guide though your pronounciations were not good and maybe you good have left the politics out .People watch these videos to escape ,even if i agree with it much of it ,this country has and is being taken for ride in a big way.

@TheWonderingEnglishman

Жыл бұрын

My Channel is 450+ videos where most videos are history, travel and politics. It’s the content I want to produce. Care to correct me on the word I mispronounced? Tomato and Leicester is usually pronounced wrong by visitors to England.

@geraldwalsh6489

8 ай бұрын

​@@TheWonderingEnglishmanThe one i mispronounced is Bicester

Bloody micks ❤

@captain007x

Жыл бұрын

Still stuck in Xenophobia arrogant English pr****.

micks

@JessicaBateman69

Жыл бұрын

Whats Micks?

@hankybostik7634

Жыл бұрын

@@JessicaBateman69 potatoe munchas=micks=Irish

@ryuhoshi2256

Жыл бұрын

little bit Xenophobic!

@hankybostik7634

Жыл бұрын

@@ryuhoshi2256 not really