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Seamus O Riain?

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  • 21-11-2013 2:25pm
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    Seanachai
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    Hello , I was in Easons last year and I bumped into this elderly man with a long white beard. He commented on something in the papers and we got talking , he seemed to be well educated and said he was a professor ( I have no way of knowing for sure obviously ). He talked about everything from the origin of the English to diet. I was just thinking about him today and I was wondering if anybody else has encountered him there or even heard of his name?.


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    JuliusCaesar
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    He could be retired 20 years. Professor of what?


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    Seanachai
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    I think it was history , that was what he kept returning to in the conversation also. He maintained that the Irish were a Hamitic race out of the Middle East and the English were a Germanic tribe called the Hinglis who had a very limited vocabulary.


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    ProudDUB
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    Have you contacted universities and colleges to see if they have/had someone of that name on their staff? That would be the first place I'd look.


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    Seanachai
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    I might contact the universities , he was in his eighties this guy. He might have been a spoofer lol. Still interesting though.


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    JuliusCaesar
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    Seanachai wrote: »
    I think it was history , that was what he kept returning to in the conversation also. He maintained that the Irish were a Hamitic race out of the Middle East and the English were a Germanic tribe called the Hinglis who had a very limited vocabulary.

    Hilarious! Good man! Glad to see oldsters haven't lost it ! :D


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    AnonoBoy
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    When I'm old I'm going to strike up conversations with youngsters and claim that I invented the internet.


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    returnNull
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    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    When I'm old I'm going to strike up conversations with youngsters and claim that I invented the internet.

    dont forget to mention you made your first million by supplying hamsters to the server farms in irelands data centres :)


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