Cows, Running & The Search For Authenticity With John Connell (Extended Cut)

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

Society & Culture, News, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture:personal Journals, Personal Journals, Politics

4.8 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Writer and director John Connell is the bestselling author behind The Cow Book and The Running Book. With a life of multiple peaks and devastating troughs, John’s incredible life story and philosophy of making each day ‘your masterpiece’ simply must be heard. John details his journey to figuring out this thing called ‘life’, the after-effects of colonialism, and his battle with depression. In a very moving part of the discussion, John also explains how his conversation with Ryan Tubridy saved a man’s life and subsequently gave him a huge amount of perspective on his own existence. This is the perfect conversation for this Christmas after the year that it has been. As it’s so special, as a gift to you, the full length version of this conversation is available to all of our listeners. To hear each episode in full every single week and to gain access to the entire back-catalogue of over 400 Irishman Abroad episodes that are not available on iTunes for just the price of a pint every month visit www.patreon.com/irishmanabroad Supplementary research provided by John Meagher. Our charity partner is jigsawonline.ie. In these tricky times, Jigsaw provides a range of resources, advice and care for your people to help them strengthen their mental health and the skills needed to navigate life. Please visit their website and consider making a donation. For updates on future episodes and live shows follow @jarlath on Twitter, visit www.jigser.com or email the show directly on [email protected]. Disclaimer: All materials contained within this podcast are copyright protected. Third party reuse and/or quotation in whole or in part is prohibited unless direct credit and/or hyperlink to the Irishman Abroad podcast is clearly and accurately provided.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of an Irishman abroad. What you're about to hear is the full interview with John Connell. This week we thought we'd give everyone a full interview to give you a taste of what you're missing out on over on patreon.com forward slash Irishman abroad where this year we moved the entire podcast, all its archive and all
0:22.1	its spin-off shows including Irishman in America, Irishman Inside Basketball, Irishman running abroad
0:27.8	with Sanyo Sullivan and lots, lots more. So for the price of a coffee each month, you gain access
0:32.7	to everything and you're able to support the show in the process. Well, John Connell is our guest today, and he is a best-selling author in case you don't know.
0:41.7	And like many Irish men and women over the years, John left Ireland for Australia.
0:46.4	And it was there that he found great success as an award-winning investigative journalist and lecture.
0:53.0	But five years ago, John moved back to Ireland and back to his family farm in Longford. He turns this experience of this first calving season into his number one bestseller, The Cowbook, and has become one of Ireland's most respected contemporary writers as a result.
1:11.6	The Running Book is his most recent work and is available now in print, an audio book, and wherever you get your books.
1:18.6	And we talk to him now about how he was able to use this love of running as a jumping off point
1:26.6	to discuss everything from race, politics and the British Empire,
1:31.7	among lots, lots more.
1:33.6	It's an extraordinary read and he's an extraordinary man.
1:37.5	I know you're going to love this episode.
1:40.1	As I mentioned, we have extended and tripled the output of our podcast since lockdown began all the way back in March.
1:48.5	On a Tuesday, you get your Sonio Sullivan episode.
1:52.5	The Irishman Running Abroad podcast is about running as a metaphor for life.
1:57.5	And this month, I think we're about a quarter of the way through.
2:01.5	I cannot believe in nearly 400 kilometres run in my challenge to run 2,000 kilometres in a year in aid of our
2:08.8	chosen charity partner, jigsaw.i. To support me on this quest, go to Idonate.i and search the
2:17.2	Irishman Running Abroad challenge. We've hundreds of
2:20.4	runners who listen to this show taking part in the challenge now and it really is gaining in momentum.
2:27.7	I'd love you to join me. If that's going to be your New Year's resolution, come on board.
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