Attempting Local: A Year Abroad in Galway, Ireland

Ready to experience Barcelona? Explore the city's architecture, tour the mountainside monastery of Montserrat, and join a group of six friends as they take Barcelona by storm.

Enjoy Episode 20 of Attempting Local: A Year Abroad in Galway, Ireland (the first episode of Journal Three: Home) and head to cullanmcnamara.com/attemptinglocal to support the show! Follow along on Instagram and Facebook @attemptinglocalpodcast.

Buy the recently-published book: Attempting Local! In this episode, I discuss how rapidly Galway shrinks; I tell of another hike on Mweelrea; Journal Two comes to a conclusion; and I look ahead toward an Irish summer.

Enjoy Episode 19 of Attempting Local: A Year Abroad in Galway, Ireland, and head to cullanmcnamara.com/attemptinglocal to support the show! Follow along on Instagram and Facebook @attemptinglocalpodcast.

This is the update you've all been waiting for! Attempting Local: A Year Abroad in Galway, Ireland has finally been published!!

You can now purchase the Paperback Edition directly from Amazon. For those of you that live outside the US, you can purchase international copies here! More good news: the podcast will soon return for those that want to continue listening to the Attempting Local story. Stay tuned, and enjoy the book!

After an old buddy's visit and completing one too many school assignments, I head to Bologna, Italy to realign myself. Three others and I planned a last-minute trip to surprise our Italian friend, Caterina, who returned home after first semester. It was the birthday surprise she loved, but it was the trip I needed. Experience Bologna, Italy with a diverse group of friends made up of five individuals from five different countries.

Enjoy Episode 18 of Attempting Local: A Year Abroad in Galway, Ireland, and head to cullanmcnamara.com/attemptinglocal to support the show! Follow along on Instagram and Facebook @attemptinglocalpodcast.

Journey into the dark, mysterious Diarmuid and Grainne's Cave... if you dare. What you'll discover within might just give you a chill.

Enjoy the spooky Episode 17 of Attempting Local: A Year Abroad in Galway, Ireland, and head to cullanmcnamara.com/attemptinglocal to support the show! Follow along on Instagram and Facebook @attemptinglocalpodcast.

Escape Ireland's eerily unpredictable mountains before the weather deteriorates. And get to know the NUI Galway Mountaineering Club through this honest tale of a hike gone wrong.

Enjoy Episode 16 of Attempting Local: A Year Abroad in Galway, Ireland, and head to cullanmcnamara.com/attemptinglocal to support the show! Follow along on Instagram and Facebook @attemptinglocalpodcast.

Hey, everyone! For many reasons, we will be taking a break from releasing new episodes. For now, enjoy previous ones. Share the Attempting Local story with others. And we'll update you when the story picks up again. Thank you SO much for your continued support!

Head to cullanmcnamara.com/attemptinglocal to support the show! Follow along on Instagram and Facebook @attemptinglocalpodcast.

Hiking dangerous cliffs? Surfing off the coast of Ireland... in January? Going out in a sleepy Irish town in the heart of winter? Yeah. This episode has it all, so listen to Episode 15 of Attempting Local now, and experience my epic twenty-fourth birthday.

Enjoy Episode 14 of Attempting Local: A Year Abroad in Galway, Ireland, and head to cullanmcnamara.com/attemptinglocal to support the show! Follow along on Instagram and Facebook @attemptinglocalpodcast.

Though I turn 24 in Ireland, we venture back in time for Episode 14. Now's your chance to explore the American South. Hammock camp near Lake Santeetlah in North Carolina, and whitewater raft the Ocoee River in Tennessee.

Enjoy Episode 14 of Attempting Local: A Year Abroad in Galway, Ireland, and head to cullanmcnamara.com/attemptinglocal to support the show! Follow along on Instagram and Facebook @attemptinglocalpodcast.

Irish dating, the climate, soccer, smoking, university, pubs... this episode covers it all. If you're curious about what Galway, Ireland is really like, you'll want to hear this. 

Enjoy Episode 13 of Attempting Local: A Year Abroad in Galway, Ireland, and head to cullanmcnamara.com/attemptinglocal to support the show! Follow along on Instagram and Facebook @attemptinglocalpodcast.