The Rough Corner: Exploring Weird Ireland with 'Unofficial' Tour Guide Brinsley McNamara

We Can Be Weirdos

Global

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Hoping for St Patrick to heal your aching back? Desperate for a roadside shrine that will rid you of warts? Sounds like you need Brinsley McNamara and his beautifully odd Tiktok and Instagram account @WeirdIreland.

You can get in touch with Dan Schreiber on Twitter and Instagram (@Schreiberland). In his bio, you'll find the link to our Discord channel - a global community of likeminded weirdos!

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1:21.4	Hey. Hey everyone. Welcome to The Rough Corner. This is the bonus episode that sits in between the main apps of We Can Be Weirdos. And today I want to spend the time I have with you introducing you to
1:26.9	someone who has been mapping out the weirdnesses of Ireland.
1:31.2	He set up an Instagram account only in January of this year, and since then, he has been logging all the interesting and bizarre spots that Ireland has to offer.
1:39.6	I've been following it now for a couple of weeks, and I can't get enough of the videos.
1:43.5	He just goes to so many
1:44.9	interesting places and I wanted to ask him about it. So we got in contact and he very excitedly
1:50.7	agreed to come on. So his name is Brinsley McNamara. He runs the Weird Ireland Instagram account.
1:56.8	You can find him there. All the videos are up there. And yeah, I just wanted to pick his brain. I wanted to find out more details about some of the place he's already covered. I want to find out how he got into it, all that sort of stuff. So here we go. This is my interview with him. And oh, I just want to quickly say that I do bring up a couple of stories in this episode that I didn't quite have the details to me on hand. It was a loose chat. I was just bringing them up in the moment.
2:18.3	But they are good stories.
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