Ronan Brady: Episode 387

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

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

4.8 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Physical artist Ronan Brady has toured the world and graced the biggest stages with his one of a kind cyr wheel performances. Today he joins Jarlath to discuss how he went from normality and comfort of being Roscommon county footballer and school teacher to a travelling circus act respected across the globe. Ronan opens up for the first time about his struggle to write his best-selling new book 'Worlds Apart' (4:00), the lack of true emotion he found while playing GAA at a county level (22:00) and his discovery of circus performance (29:00). The episode includes his inspiring story of working with Panti on their hit show Riot (31:00), his personal battle with finding comfort in his own skin after years of conformity (36:00) and his side-splitting story of becoming the Del Boy of his secondary school (1:04:00). This is one of the most unusual yet uplifting stories ever told on Irishman Abroad. Visit www.ronanbrady.me for more information and for links to purchase Worlds Apart in either paper or audiobook format. To hear this episode in full and to gain access to the entire back-catalogue of over 350 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	What makes a man change his life? What makes a man change his life from the traditional to the extraordinary?
0:09.0	Our guest today, Ronan Brady, did just that when he chose to walk away from the rock-steady life of school teaching and playing inter-county football for Ross Common.
0:18.1	To take the road less travelled into a life on the road as a physical artist.
0:23.1	His incredible new book, World's Apart, takes us on the ride from small town Ireland to the biggest
0:29.2	stages the world has to offer in Sydney, Melbourne, New York, Toronto and beyond.
0:35.5	I can't say enough about this man, and I can't say enough about the book. It's just a fantastic read. I can't say enough about this man and I can't say enough about the book.
0:38.3	It's just a fantastic read. I won't go too much into the introduction here. I'll just let you listen to it.
0:45.3	And go and buy the book if you can. You will not regret it. I will say there is more.
0:50.3	If you want to hear the extended version of this conversation, the conversation in full,
0:55.1	head over to patreon.com forward slash Irishman abroad. And every single week I will give you more.
1:00.8	I will give you two extra episodes each week, including Irishman running abroad with Sonio Sullivan,
1:06.4	our running podcast, and exclusively Irishman in America with Marion McKeown, our US politics podcast
1:14.3	and with 60 days going out from that election, you're going to need Marion in your life.
1:20.5	Our eyes and ears on the ground are US correspondent to make sense of it all.
1:24.6	And as terrifying as those conversations have been super calming, patreon.com
1:29.8	forward slash Irishmen abroad. It's the way to support this show and allow us to continue through
1:35.4	these difficult times. Speaking of difficult times, our chosen charity partner is jigsaw.com.
1:41.5	We have a sponsor on this show. We've a chosen charity partner that we encourage you to go and support. Jigsaw.I.E. We have a sponsor on this show. We've a chosen charity partner that we encourage
1:45.4	you to go and support. Jigsaw.i have done incredible work with young people across Ireland for
1:52.5	years now, helping thousands of young people be equipped with the mental health skills they'll
1:57.0	need to survive in life. And of course, a pandemic. If you've seen kids going back to school this week,
2:02.5	you'll know exactly what a risk they're taking and the challenge they're facing
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