Weird Ireland
An Unofficial Guide to the Island
$33.90
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
11 February 2025
Summary
A hill that cars roll up. A bridge that plays music. A chair to cure madness. An underworld gateway. Bizarre foods, films, phrases and creatures. Welcome to weird Ireland.
In a journey across the island, Brinsley McNamara - curator of the popular social media channel Weird Ireland - shares his oddity obsession to bring you an off-the-beaten-track account of unique Irish wonders.
From UFOs and fairy forts to lake monsters and healing rocks, from standing stones and moving statu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399741002 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399741004 |
| Author: | Brinsley McNamara |
| Publisher: | Hachette Books Ireland |
| Imprint: | Hachette Books Ireland |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 11 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 331g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 138mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
Weird Island sits right at the intersection of folklore, mythology, history, and geography, and offers a fun and accessible way to explore the parts of Ireland that lurk just beyond the well-worn paths of Blarney Stones and Guinness Tours.–Thom Dunn, Boing Boing
Brinsley McNamara
Brinsley McNamara is a writer, video maker and adventurer. He is the protagonist of the Weird Ireland social media channel where he wanders around the Emerald Isles looking for weird and fascinating stuff to document and quests to complete. He plans on clearing Ireland before moving onto elsewhere.
Brinsley hails from County Westmeath, a place immortalised in the book The Valley of the Squinting Windows by Brinsley MacNamara, who also hailed from the same spot.
This is his first book.
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