Ireland & Irish People

faceman

Inspired by what the Brits do better than the Paddies thread, thought it would be nice to share our deadliness.

What things do you know about Ireland and Irish people that few people know or realise?

We’re usually associated with drink and ‘craic’ but many people don’t know an Irish person invented the homing missile and designed the White House.
Also not many people know that the original Santa Claus, St Nick, is buried in Thomastown in Kilkenny

So what seldom known stuff do you know?

mrcheez

An Irishman in 'murica coined the term "The only good Indian is a dead Indian." (note he might have been born in the US.. so point is moot)

Portsalon

Ireland was the last country in Europe to ban cannibalism.

TheValeyard

Induction Coils, syringe, submarine type, kicked Science forward 200 years, and....




THE CRISP




ALL HAIL TAYTOS

73bc61lyohr0mu

An Irishman from Clare invented the submarine
The White House in Washington is based off of the design of Leinster House
Charlie Haughey was good friends with a high up ex Nazi who lived on a farm in Kildare.

Mr. CooL ICE

The founder of the Argentinian navy was Irish.

TheValeyard

An Irish woman from Dublin shot Mussolini, only grazed him though.

BDI

An Irishman built my house.

realdanbreen

Portsalon wrote: »

Ireland was the last country in Europe to ban cannibalism.

You mean cannabilism is banned! FFS! more PC gone mad!

dxhound2005

TheValeyard wrote: »

An Irish woman from Dublin shot Mussolini, only grazed him though.

This isn't about women.

TheValeyard

dxhound2005 wrote: »

This isn't about women.

Fine.

Saint Valentine is supposed to be buried in Dublin

jester77

An Irishman saved Barcelona FC from going under after the Spanish Civil war

faceman

Solomon Refined Sphere wrote: »

An Irishman from Clare invented the submarine

Even though you’re correct, not everyone agrees. There’s a naval city in Spain, Cartagena, which has a monument to mark the world’s First submarine. They don’t credit the Irish creator though.

We need to invade Spain

bennyineire

Irish people make very good project managers as can be seen by how many of us are around the world working as project managers and indeed much loftier roles.

Why you may say, I believe its' due to our classless society, usually and Irish person can talk to a janitor and a CEO in the same tone and manner and be respected for it.

Brits are a real mixed bag in this regard and anyone who has worked abroad will know what I mean by this.

partyguinness

Polar Bears have one common genetic ancestor. They are the result of a genetic mutation from one Irish brown bear.

Okay I am broadening the definition of people..

Woke Hogan

faceman wrote: »

Inspired by what the Brits do better than the Paddies thread, thought it would be nice to share our deadliness.

What things do you know about Ireland and Irish people that few people know or realise?

We’re usually associated with drink and ‘craic’ but many people don’t know an Irish person invented the homing missile and designed the White House.
Also not many people know that the original Santa Claus, St Nick, is buried in Thomastown in Kilkenny

So what seldom known stuff do you know?

The White House was built by slaves.

Fitz*

The first duty-free shop in the world was opened in Shannon Airport in Clare.

partyguinness

faceman wrote: »

Even though you’re correct, not everyone agrees. There’s a naval city in Spain, Cartagena, which has a monument to mark the world’s First submarine. They don’t credit the Irish creator though.

We need to invade Spain

Funnily enough, there was a documentary on the BBC World Service radio at 4am this morning about the invention of the submarine.

The Brits being the Brits hated giving credit to anything from Ireland and mentioned Holland several times through gritted teeth. Apparently he was a Fenian and he designed it to attack the Royal Navy ships. They then bought up the plans and modified them.

Holland was not impressed with the changes that went on to the blueprint for the WWI subs. But by WWII they had reverted back to the shape Holland had originally designed.

In fact they said in the programme that his design was way head of its time.

And the following programme was about Eamonn Coughlan being the first person over 40 to break the 4 minute mile. I don't sleep much.

partyguinness

Up to a few years ago the top 4 largest airlines in the world were all headed up by Irishmen- all ex Aer Lingus.

dxhound2005

partyguinness wrote: »

Funnily enough, there was a documentary on the BBC World Service radio at 4am this morning about the invention of the submarine.

The Brits being the Brits hated giving credit to anything from Ireland and mentioned Holland several times through gritted teeth. Apparently he was a Fenian and he designed it to attack the Royal Navy ships. They then bought up the plans and modified them.

Holland was not impressed with the changes that went on to the blueprint for the WWI subs. But by WWII they had reverted back to the shape Holland had originally designed.

In fact they said in the programme that his design was way head of its time.

And the following programme was about Eamonn Coughlan being the first person over 40 to break the 4 minute mile. I don't sleep much.

Did it mention that he was a schoolteacher in Dundalk.

ohnonotgmail

Solomon Refined Sphere wrote: »

An Irishman from Clare invented the submarine
The White House in Washington is based off of the design of Leinster House
Charlie Haughey was good friends with a high up ex Nazi who lived on a farm in Kildare.

I think it is a bit of stretch to call them good friends. they supposedly did meet once once at a function but that is about it.

corner of hells

Guinness and sudocream.

When you manage to tear the arse out of yourself with a rake of Guinness, sudocream will make it better.

Woke Hogan

Lenin spoke English with an Irish accent, his English tutor was from Ireland.

riffmongous

corner of hells wrote: »

Guinness and sudocream.

When you manage to tear the arse out of yourself with a rake of Guinness, sudocream will make it better.

Spelt sudocrem... Is it because it's supposed to be pronounced with an 'ai' accent instead of the 'ea'?

partyguinness

Bunreacht na hEirean (1937) is the oldest written Constitution in Europe still in use.

corner of hells

riffmongous wrote: »

Spelt sudocrem... Is it because it's supposed to be pronounced with an 'ai' accent instead of the 'ea'?

Well , very "la di dah".

Mad_maxx

First man to captain an all black ( new Zealand rugby team) side was Irish

Dave Gallagher from donegal

TheValeyard

Shannon Airports runway was designated as an emergency landing spot for Space shuttles.

Fritzbox

faceman wrote: »

Inspired by what the Brits do better than the Paddies thread, thought it would be nice to share our deadliness.

What things do you know about Ireland and Irish people that few people know or realise?

We’re usually associated with drink and ‘craic’ but many people don’t know an Irish person invented the homing missile and designed the White House.
Also not many people know that the original Santa Claus, St Nick, is buried in Thomastown in Kilkenny

So what seldom known stuff do you know?

I didn't know Santa was a Kilkenny man. I certainly did know that the man who designed the White House was a Kilkenny man too.

Redneck Reject

mrcheez wrote: »

An Irishman in 'murica coined the term "The only good Indian is a dead Indian." (note he might have been born in the US.. so point is moot)

We saw how that panned out at Little Big Horn.

Quantum Erasure

Ireland & Irish People, what would Paul McCartney say?

Your Face

Redneck Reject wrote: »

We saw how that panned out at Little Big Horn.

Less about your sex life please.

Comerman

Bridget Elizabeth Hitler, née Dowling, was Adolf Hitler's sister-in-law via her marriage to Alois Hitler Jr. She was the mother of Alois Hitler's son William Patrick Hitler. She was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland.

Wibbs

Woke Hogan wrote: »

Lenin spoke English with an Irish accent, his English tutor was from Ireland.

As ironically enough did the children of the last Tsar, as their tutor/governess was also from Ireland. Though this was later "corrected" by another English tutor after said governess had left their service. The daughters of the Tsar corresponded with her until their deaths during the revolution.

First air conditioning system was built in Belfast.

JohnnyFlash

[Deleted User] wrote: »

First air conditioning system was built in Belfast.

They do have problems with hot air up there.

Sir Osis of Liver.

We also inflicted Johnny Logan on the Germans in the 80's as reparation for the Luftwaffe bombing of Dublin during the war.
I think they've suffered enough.

Ten of Swords

Several schools, streets and a train station in Mexico are named after Batallon de San Patricio (St Patricks Battalion), a group of 200 Irish soldiers that fought with the Mexican army against the Americans during the Mexican-American war in 1847.

They are commemorated in Mexico on September 12th, the day most were executed by the Americans after their defeat.

De Bhál

The Disney family, that of Walt, are originally from Gowran, Co. Kilkenny.

WesternZulu

One of the shortest lived countries ever was The Republic of Connacht. It lasted a week and its capital was Castlebar.

Sir Osis of Liver.

An Irishman set up the first brass band in Japan and wrote their national anthem.

irishguitarlad

jester77 wrote: »

An Irishman saved Barcelona FC from going under after the Spanish Civil war

Said Irishman also won Real Betis' one and only La Liga title.

mikemac2

The way they built Newgrange and figured out to how measure the winter solstice is pretty amazing

dxhound2005

mikemac2 wrote: »

The way they built Newgrange and figured out to how measure the winter solstice is pretty amazing

And they weren't even Paddies. The Celts did not arrive until a couple of thousands years later.

major bill

Bernardo O'Higgins is a name well known in South America for independence movements in Chile and to a lesser extent in Peru.

His name is all over Chile and Chile also has a fairly successful football club named after him called O'Higgins FC that play in in the top division over there.

*His father was Irish*

dxhound2005

There are four football clubs in Argentina with Brown in their name, in honour of William Brown. Mayo man who is known as the Father of the Argentinian Navy.

73bc61lyohr0mu

Shannon Airport was the first airport in the world to have Duty Free shopping.

faceman

Irish Times added their bit to this thread.... An Irishman who revolutionised naval warfare and marine transport.

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/how-an-offaly-man-revolutionised-naval-warfare-and-marine-transport-1.4019571

Forty Seven

Pretty slim pickings so far lads.

(A brit)

who the fug

TheValeyard wrote: »

An Irish woman from Dublin shot Mussolini, only grazed him though.

In later life her assertion that she had shot Mussolini, was used by the Doctors as proof that she should stay in the Nut house

bennyineire

Forty Seven wrote: »

Pretty slim pickings so far lads.

(A brit)

You then are surly most qualified to give us at least 1 example
Please stroke our collective ego's