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Boards.ie Irelands Greatest Person

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  • #102
    Fago!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,647 ✭✭✭✭Fago!


    minidazzler wrote: »
    Who in the name of fcuk is Brendan Shine? Sounds like a serial killer!

    Only Ireland's greatest showband performer!


  • #103
    Xluna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,329 ✭✭✭Xluna


    Where's Ian Paisley,Bono,Gerry Adams,Stephen Ireland, Bertie Ahern, and that big fat wan who's minister for health?


  • #104
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Perhaps add Kevin Myers, make him feel a little better after finding that thread below...


  • #105
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    Fago! wrote: »
    Only Ireland's greatest showband performer!

    Oh, I should have guessed it was something like that.....with you loving it and all! :P


  • #106
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    What? No Brendan Kilkenny or Stephen Gately. Fack off

    Can we vote for your ma


  • #107
    Fago!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,647 ✭✭✭✭Fago!


    minidazzler wrote: »
    Oh, I should have guessed it was something like that.....with you loving it and all! :P

    "Do ya want yer oul lobby washed down cloudshine, do ya want yer oul lobby washed down" - the only lyrics I know of any of his songs.

    It's a song about lobby washing!


  • #108
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    Fago! wrote: »
    Only Ireland's greatest showband performer!

    no way, sonny knowles all the way!


  • #109
    Fago!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,647 ✭✭✭✭Fago!


    ballsymchugh wrote: »
    no way, sonny knowles all the way!

    Sounds like a medical condition.


  • #110
    That_Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,342 ✭✭✭✭That_Guy


    Dunphy!!!!


  • #111
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    Fago! wrote: »
    Sounds like a medical condition.

    that man carried derek davis and thelma mansfield through the blue rinse brigade that was live at 3. hasn't walked since.


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  • #112
    x PyRo
    Moderators Posts: 8,725 ✭✭✭x PyRo


    I voted Robert Boyle, just because he's one of my ancestors.


  • #113
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Christy Moore and U2 are there, but no Luke Kelly or Ronnie Drew?!


  • #114
    Xluna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,329 ✭✭✭Xluna


    Not sure what countes mark...-whatever she's called-is doing there bar being a token female option. Sir Roger Casement achieved far more,not just for Ireland but his humanitarian work in the Congo. Wolfe Tone should have been there too. Interesting to see no De Valera and O' Connell without a vote. If you're talking about raw intelligence then it would have to be Collins and Wilde imo.


  • #115
    sagat2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 179 ✭✭sagat2


    Eddie Murphy, end of story.


  • #116
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    And the most important man of the past one thousand years of Irish history doesn't make an appearance on this list.

    Does anybody even know who that person is? Do they even teach Irish history in Irish schools anymore?

    I despair.

    Gráinne Mhaol Ní Mháille will have to do until that person gets on the list.


  • #117
    Xluna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,329 ✭✭✭Xluna


    Rebelheart wrote: »
    And the most important man of the past one thousand years of Irish history doesn't make an appearance on this list.

    Does anybody even know who that person is? Do they even teach Irish history in Irish schools anymore?

    I despair.

    Gráinne Mhaol Ní Mháille will have to do until that person gets on the list.

    Jack Charlton?


  • #118
    Not Kevin Myers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17 ✭Not Kevin Myers


    I'm surprised not to see Wolfe Tone on the list.


  • #119
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    Xluna wrote: »
    Jack Charlton?

    Batman?


  • #120
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    Xluna wrote: »
    Jack Charlton?

    You have to try a lot harder there, Xluna. A list of the "greatest person" in Irish history without mentioning this person is like making a list of famous residents of the Vatican and omitting the Pope.

    You'd get better Irish history lessons in the Hedge Schools of yore than you'd get in these National School things.


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  • #121
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    Xluna wrote: »
    Not sure what countes mark...-whatever she's called-is doing there bar being a token female option. Sir Roger Casement achieved far more,not just for Ireland but his humanitarian work in the Congo. Wolfe Tone should have been there too. Interesting to see no De Valera and O' Connell without a vote. If you're talking about raw intelligence then it would have to be Collins and Wilde imo.

    O'Connell - now there, there - there's a person who is up there at the very top of Ireland's Worst Person list - even ahead of Níall Garbh, Owen Connolly, Thomas Reynolds and Leonard McNally.


  • #122
    Feeky Magee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Feeky Magee


    Co45 wrote: »
    You really want the man who abadoned his country on the world stage on the Ireland's Greatest Person list?

    Piss off.


  • #123
    kerash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭kerash


    John Joe or Marty Whelan


  • #124
    kerash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭kerash


    Christ Almighty have we all gone mad or what?:eek:
    this is obviously Irelands greatest person.

    /end thread kthnxbi


  • #125
    lugha
    Registered Users Posts: 3,235 ✭✭✭lugha


    Rebelheart wrote: »
    And the most important man of the past one thousand years of Irish history doesn't make an appearance on this list.

    Does anybody even know who that person is? Do they even teach Irish history in Irish schools anymore?

    I despair.

    Gráinne Mhaol Ní Mháille will have to do until that person gets on the list.

    Dominic McGlinchey?


  • #126
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    This thread fails..there's no mention of anaorexic-bono wannabe and serial junkie Christy Dignam.


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  • #127
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Degsy wrote: »
    This thread fails..there's no mention of anaorexic-bono wannabe and serial junkie Christy Dignam.

    Huh? :confused:


  • #128
    raah!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭raah!


    What about George Berkeley!? If greatness is proportional to wikipedia page size, then he's great enough.


  • #129
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    Ronnie O'Brien. Time man of the millennium.


  • #130
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    Gus Corrigan.


  • #131
    Xluna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,329 ✭✭✭Xluna


    Rebelheart wrote: »
    You have to try a lot harder there, Xluna. A list of the "greatest person" in Irish history without mentioning this person is like making a list of famous residents of the Vatican and omitting the Pope.

    You'd get better Irish history lessons in the Hedge Schools of yore than you'd get in these National School things.

    O.K. I'm thinking(Meh "greatest" is so relative). Eriugena a.k.a Johannes Scottus?


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  • #132
    Fago!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,647 ✭✭✭✭Fago!


    Facekicker!!!


  • #133
    eddie the eagle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭eddie the eagle


    no james joyce :(


  • #134
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Winty


    Rebelheart wrote: »
    And the most important man of the past one thousand years of Irish history doesn't make an appearance on this list.

    Does anybody even know who that person is? Do they even teach Irish history in Irish schools anymore?

    I despair.

    Gráinne Mhaol Ní Mháille will have to do until that person gets on the list.

    Who ? Rebel Who?


  • #135
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Christy Brown.


  • #136
    Xluna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,329 ✭✭✭Xluna


    eddie the eagle wrote: »
    no james joyce :(

    Sh1t you're right! Author of the greatest novel of the past century and a bunch of crooners make the list ahead of him. Damn you OP! Bram Stoker deserves a mention too.


  • #137
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Winty


    Xluna wrote: »
    a bunch of crooners make the list ahead of him.

    Hello, Who are the crooners ?


  • #138
    Xluna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,329 ✭✭✭Xluna


    Winty wrote: »
    Hello, Who are the crooners ?

    Van,Phil and Christy. Literture will always be held in higher regard than music,imo.


  • #139
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Winty


    Xluna wrote: »
    Van,Phil and Christy. Literture will always be held in higher regard than music,imo.

    Van, Phil and Christy could never be called crooners, artists yes


  • #140
    Xluna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,329 ✭✭✭Xluna


    Fair enough,poor choice of words on my part it must be said.


  • #141
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Winty


    Xluna wrote: »
    Author of the greatest novel of the past century and a bunch of crooners make the list ahead of him. Damn you OP! Bram Stoker deserves a mention too.

    I have taken your comments onboard and asked The Zohan to make a change so you may get your wish


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  • #142
    Saganist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,333 ✭✭✭Saganist


    Boyle should win that hands down. Being The father of modern chemistry is no mean feat


  • #143
    lugha
    Registered Users Posts: 3,235 ✭✭✭lugha


    Saganist wrote: »
    Boyle should win that hands down. Being The father of modern chemistry is no mean feat

    Perhaps but was he not "Irish" in the same way Wellington was?


  • #144
    Xluna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,329 ✭✭✭Xluna


    lugha wrote: »
    Perhaps but was he not "Irish" in the same way Wellington was?

    He did'nt have much of a connection from what I heard. Oscar Wilde was Anglo Irish,yes,but he was an Irish nationalist at one stage.
    I'm still curious to hear what Rebel Hearts "forgotten great" is.


  • #145
    Not Kevin Myers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17 ✭Not Kevin Myers


    Xluna wrote: »
    He did'nt have much of a connection from what I heard. Oscar Wilde was Anglo Irish,yes,but he was an Irish nationalist at one stage.
    I'm still curious to hear what Rebel Hearts "forgotten great" is.

    It's probably himself.


  • #146
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    Xluna wrote: »
    O.K. I'm thinking(Meh "greatest" is so relative). Eriugena a.k.a Johannes Scottus?
    Winty wrote: »
    Who ? Rebel Who?

    Ah Jaysas, lads, Jaysas.

    Right. This person's chief ally escaped out of Dublin Castle in the terrible snow of January 1592, having been kidnapped in 1587 as a 15-year-old by English crown agents dressed up as French wine merchants in Lough Swilly who invited this young Prince onboard to "taste the wine"; they wanted to prevent an alliance by removing him and starting an internal war for succession. Having escaped from Dublin Castle this ally walked hundreds of kilometres through the snow and was given sanctuary by Fiacha Mac Aodha Ó Broin in Glenmalure in the Wicklow mountains. He lost both his toes due to frostbite.

    If you don't know who I'm talking about now you two must have been dossing down the back in National School while the rest of us were in tears at the tragedy which our young hero had to endure to free his country ....


  • #147
    lugha
    Registered Users Posts: 3,235 ✭✭✭lugha


    Rebelheart wrote: »
    He lost both his toes due to frostbite.
    He has only two toes? :confused:
    Is this one of these old Fianna stories rebel? Sounds a lot like one.


  • #148
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,129 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Winty wrote: »
    When U2 pay tax in Ireland they can be on the list

    Which tax band was Brian Boru on, just as a matter of interest?:confused:


  • #149
    landsleaving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    Rebelheart wrote: »
    Ah Jaysas, lads, Jaysas.
    If you don't know who I'm talking about now you two must have been dossing down the back in National School while the rest of us were in tears at the tragedy which our young hero had to endure to free his country ....

    Shocking stuff altogether. Poor ol' Hugh


  • #150
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,191 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Which tax band was Brian Boru on, just as a matter of interest?:confused:

    LOL. He didn't have a PRSI number either. Nor did he fly around the world on dem flying machine thingies.


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  • #151
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    lugha wrote: »
    Is this one of these old Fianna stories rebel? Sounds a lot like one.

    Lugha, once more you disappoint me. That you never learnt this famous story is a bit, let's just say, suspicious.

    Castles ==> Post-Norman
    Fianna Cycle ==> Pre-Norman
    1592==> Post-Fianna Cycle


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