10 things you probably never knew the Irish invented!

Azure_sky

Raging alcoholism and seasonal affective disorder?

im invisible

Cheese and onion Tayto

CruelCoin

The sport called "extreme funeral attending"

im invisible

The wavin pipe

9959

Priestophiles

Wibbs

It BeeMee wrote: »

Now that you mention it, the Christian Brothers were invented in Kilkenny...

On the religious front, at least the Christian/Catholic front, we "invented" confession. In the sense of making it private and confidential. Previous to the innovation confessions were public affairs.

9959

Wibbs wrote: »

On the religious front, at least the Christian/Catholic front, we "invented" confession. In the sense of making it private and confidential. Previous to the innovation confessions were public affairs.

Still are public affairs, Oprah, Johnathan Ross, The Late Late etc.
The modern confession usually begins: "My biography is in the shops tomorrow.....?

Skill Magill

Honorable mention to the first pneumatic tire factory in the world on Stephens St Dublin

vincit qui se vincit

Wibbs wrote: »

On the religious front, at least the Christian/Catholic front, we "invented" confession. In the sense of making it private and confidential. Previous to the innovation confessions were public affairs.

Very interesting. Thank you. The following from Auricular Confession: A Late Invention confirms this:

'The Catechism of the Catholic Church admits that private confession first came on the scene in the seventh century: “Over the centuries the concrete form in which the Church has exercised this power received from the Lord has varied considerably. During the first centuries the reconciliation of Christians who had committed particularly grave sins after their Baptism (for example, idolatry, murder, or adultery) was tied to a very rigorous discipline, according to which penitents had to do public penance for their sins, often for years, before receiving reconciliation. To this ‘order of penitents’ (which concerned only certain grave sins), one was only rarely admitted and in certain regions only once in a lifetime. During the seventh century Irish missionaries, inspired by the Eastern monastic tradition, took to continental Europe the ‘private’ practice of penance, which does not require public and prolonged completion of penitential works before reconciliation with the Church. From that time on, the sacrament has been performed in secret between penitent and priest. This new practice envisioned the possibility of repetition and so opened the way to a regular frequenting of this sacrament. It allowed the forgiveness of grave sins and venial sins to be integrated into one sacramental celebration. In its main lines this is the form of penance that the Church has practiced down to our day” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 1447).

So, private confession was introduced a full seven centuries after Christ and His apostles. Ironically the Roman Church curses us if we dare assert the plain historical fact that secret confession to a priest was not observed from the beginning'

bnt

The one that's impressed me most is the Nickel-Zinc Drumm battery, already mentioned, which wasn't invented here (Edison got there first), but was developed into a usable product here.

However, calling Robert Boyle "Irish" is a bit of a stretch, I have to say: his father was an English "plantation" owner who blew in from England and took over large chunks of Munster. Young Robert went off to Eton at the age of 8 and only returned to Ireland after he inherited some of that land. After a couple of years he left for good, describing Ireland as "a barbarous country where chemical spirits were so misunderstood and chemical instruments so unprocurable that it was hard to have any Hermetic thoughts in it". So, since he didn't want you, it might be better to use another great Irish invention on him: the Boycott. :cool:

General Relativity

Re: Colour photography.
John Jolly just invented a screening process for colour photography. Vogel (spelling?), Hauron, Maxwell and Lippman all played massive roles in getting him there.

Re: The Atomic Bomb.
It's a massive stretch to say Walton invented the A-bomb. Fermi, Periles (spelling?) and Frich 'invented it', over 30 physicsists engineered it.

Skerries

The crisp sandwich

Bacon and Cabbage

Coddle

Spice Burgers

Soakage and conversely "eating is cheating"

"The good room"

WoollyRedHat

I heard we invented the colour yellow

Duggys Housemate

9959 wrote: »

Priestophiles

We had monks when the rest of Latin Christiantity had priests and bishops.

mikom

Baileys.

Putting gay Cameroon blokes in prison since 1971.

Duggys Housemate

Skerries wrote: »

The crisp sandwich

Bacon and Cabbage

Coddle

Spice Burgers

Soakage and conversely "eating is cheating"

"The good room"

No we didn't invent the good room despite McWilliams bollocks. It's an English invention - the working classes copying the middle classes who copied the aristocrats - in having a room furnished specifically room for visitors.

9959

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

We had monks when the rest of Latin Christiantity had priests and bishops.

Eh, good stuff.

Duggys Housemate

9959 wrote: »

Eh, good stuff.

Well, it's always worth pointing out the historical inaccuracies of the unread don't you think?

In terms of what we ( excluding the Anglo Irish) invented , not much which would be expected given the access to education.

maninasia

dmcronin wrote: »

It's not unique, it's called the 'tall poppy' syndrome in Australia.

The Chinese say 'the nail that sticks out gets hammered down'.

The Irish say 'the man who drinks most gets hammered'.

im invisible

baalthor

im invisible wrote: »

The wavin pipe

Wavin are Dutch
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavin

But if you just mean "plastic pipe", I dunno who invented it ...

Capt'n Midnight

bnt wrote: »

The one that's impressed me most is the Nickel-Zinc Drumm battery, already mentioned, which wasn't invented here (Edison got there first),

Edison :rolleyes:

He had a lot of assistants to do his dirty work, including rebadging stuff others invented, - anyway changing metals in a battery is not exactly rocket science once you aware of the electrochemical series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel%E2%80%93iron_battery#History

Swedish inventor Waldemar Jungner had invented the nickel–cadmium battery in 1899. Jungner experimented with substituting iron for the cadmium in varying proportions, including 100% iron. Jungner had already discovered that the main advantage over the nickel–cadmium chemistry was cost, but due to the lower efficiency of the charging reaction and more pronounced formation of hydrogen (gassing), the nickel–iron technology was found wanting and abandoned. Jungner had several patents for the iron version of his battery (Swedish pat.Nos 8.558/1897, 10.177/1899, 11.132/1899, 11.487/1899 and German Patent No.110.210 /1899). Moreover he had one patent for NiCd battery: Swed.pat No. 15.567/1899.[12]

9959

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

We had monks when the rest of Latin Christiantity had priests and bishops.

9959 wrote: »

Priestophiles

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

Well, it's always worth pointing out the historical inaccuracies of the unread don't you think?

In terms of what we ( excluding the Anglo Irish) invented , not much which would be expected given the access to education.

Apologies for quotes being out of sequence, I still haven't quite got the hang of it yet!

We'll have to agree to disagree on this one, I'm sure you're not 'unread' and therefore can differentiate between priests and "priestophiles", however, if you believe that all priests should be classified as paedophiles, then that's your opinion.

In my opinion, you don't have to be a paedophile to be a priest, and obviously you don't have to be a priest to be a paedophile, though it does/did help in terms of unfettered access to children.

Did Ireland invent "Priestophiles"?

Perhaps my nomination of "Priestophiles" was a little too caustic for your tastes, but if you can point to another country where the defilement, buggery and torture of children, by the clergy, was conducted with near impunity over such a prolonged period of time, then I'd like to hear it.

I honestly don't know about 'monks' or why you bothered mentioning them.

Temptamperu

The Havok engine was made in Ireland, its great for throwing computer characters down stairs.

optimistic_

bb1234567 wrote: »

Another few things we invented:eek:

The Harpoon Gun
Thomas Nesbitt invented the harpoon gun in 1760 to pulverise some pesky whales who were making a nuisance of themselves around the Donegal coastline at the time. It used to really piss off old Tom the way they'd swim right next to his currach and spray water all over the gaff. "I'll sort you out ya bastards," he said. And he did.

The Hypodermic Syringe
The next time you get a needle up the arse, save a little thought for Francis Rynd who invented that long, thin, sharp instrument which is jammed up your crack. In fairness to Francis, he developed the hypodermic syringe specifically for the injection of morphine, so the next time your house is burgled by heroine addicts...

Shorthand Writing
John Gregg of Monaghan invented shorthand writing in 1893, basing the system on the natural movements of the hand (steady on, boys). Shorthand writing was quickly adopted as a means of taking minutes and witness accounts. 110 years on and shorthand writing is about as popular as heiroglyphics

The Monorail
The next time you hear reports about overspending on the Luas and think to yourself how we couldn't build a train if it was came in a box with Hornby written on it, consider Louis Brennan of Castlebar in County Mayo who invented the world's first monorail in 1907. The first time Brennan's design was put into use was on the Listowel to Ballybunion route in County Kerry so when you think about it, it couldn't have been that great an invention.

very intersting:)

But Main Street's still all cracked and broken...

wendell borton

The irish didn't invent guinness.

Porter is a dark style of beer originating in London in the 18th Century, [1] descended from brown beer, a well hopped beer made from brown malt.[2] The name came about as a result of its popularity with street and river porters.[3]
The history and development of stout and porter are intertwined.[4] The name "stout" for a dark beer is believed to have come about because a strong porter may be called "Extra Porter" or "Double Porter" or "Stout Porter". The term "Stout Porter" would later be shortened to just "Stout". For example, Guinness Extra Stout was originally called "Extra Superior Porter" and was only given the name Extra Stout in 1840.[5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_(beer)

Ziphius

wendell borton wrote: »

The irish didn't invent guinness.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_(beer)

Nope, Guinness is Irish.

Though, it's not a particularly surprising or impressive "invention".