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    #632
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,371 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    'twas in some small village in Limerick (or was it Cavan ;))


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    #633
    eoinm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭eoinm


    geographically close with Limerick


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    #634
    eoinm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭eoinm


    Originally posted by eoinm
    geographically close with Limerick

    anyone gonna get this or will i post the answer?


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    #635
    Hairy Homer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Put us out of our misery.


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    #636
    eoinm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭eoinm


    it was the Ralahine commune
    http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/history/ralahine.htm

    in/near newmarket-on-fergus, where dromoland castle is, which george bush just visited


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    #637
    martarg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭martarg


    And the next question is.....?? ;)


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    #638
    eoinm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭eoinm


    ok, to keep up a vague theme, who do the O'Briens of Thomond (former owners of Dromoland) claim direct decent from?


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    #639
    martarg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭martarg


    Brian Boru?

    Not so many options I know of.... :dunno:


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    #640
    eoinm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭eoinm


    got it in one!


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    #641
    martarg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭martarg


    When you don't know much, there is less to choose from... :p

    My turn after so many weeks, snif, snif... OK, let's keep it Irish genealogy... Who was the famous uncle of Daniel O'Donoghue (a.k.a. The O'Donoghue), popular MP from the independent opposition party during the 1850s?


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    #642
    martarg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭martarg


    Ok, after three days perhaps a little clue may be in order.... when I say "famous uncle" I mean HUGELY famous, has his own street in Dublin... ;)


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    #643
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,703 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    In my tradition of WAG, is it Parnell?.


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    #644
    martarg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭martarg


    Hmmmm, nope, further back... this was the 1850s, but the guy was equally famous... ;)


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    #645
    eoinm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭eoinm


    O'Connell?


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    #646
    Hairy Homer
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    Wild (unlikley) guess. Robert Emmet.

    Would fit the time line but 'o'Donoghue sounds pretty inidigenous Irish whereas emmet was Anglo.


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    #647
    martarg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭martarg


    And the Oscar goes to eoinm! ;) It was O'Connell (Emmet died a little too early in the century to have been his uncle, I think) ... next question?


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    #648
    eoinm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭eoinm


    ok so, who was the last hangman working in ireland?


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    #649
    Hairy Homer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Originally posted by eoinm
    ok so, who was the last hangman working in ireland?

    Albert Pierrepoint


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    #650
    eoinm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭eoinm


    thats the chap


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    #651
    Hairy Homer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Charles II of England, the Merry Monarch who was restored to the throne in 1661 after the English had had a gutsfull of the miserable Puritans with their bans on any form of fun and entertainment at all, was the father of 13 children.

    But how many of them were legitimate?


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    #652
    Irish04
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    1


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    #653
    eoinm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭eoinm


    zero
    Originally posted by Hairy Homer
    Charles II of England, the Merry Monarch who was restored to the throne in 1661 after the English had had a gutsfull of the miserable Puritans with their bans on any form of fun and entertainment at all, was the father of 13 children.

    But how many of them were legitimate?


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    #654
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,303 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    I'll see your 0 and raise you 5.


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    #655
    Hairy Homer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Eoinm is right. They were all bastards.

    But one of them was the great great great great whatever....a direct forebear of Lady Diana Spencer. So if the monarchy does not implode over the next 40years or so, there will be a direct descendant of Charles II on the throne after Lizzy and Chaz pop their clogs.

    Sigh. The Glorious Revolution. Was it all in vain?

    Your question sir.


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    #656
    eoinm
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    Ryanair fly to the french airport of Carcassonne. Now this city was sacked by the Albigensian Crusade, the question is what sect/heresy did this crusade seek to distroy.

    Originally posted by Hairy Homer
    Eoinm is right. They were all bastards.

    But one of them was the great great great great whatever....a direct forebear of Lady Diana Spencer. So if the monarchy does not implode over the next 40years or so, there will be a direct descendant of Charles II on the throne after Lizzy and Chaz pop their clogs.

    Sigh. The Glorious Revolution. Was it all in vain?

    Your question sir.


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    #657
    Manach
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    Cathars - which to my mine sounds like a cough complaint.


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    #658
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,303 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    I'm probably getting mixed up with them lads in "the name of the rose" and for some reason Rastafarians keeps popping up - but like that's out by about 1,000 years and a whole continent. :D

    Yeah didn't the pope give an English king a medal or something for a crusade against Irish heresy some time back ?


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    #659
    eoinm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭eoinm


    top marks to the monkish avatar ;)
    i think they were mentioned in 'in the name of the rose' too though
    Originally posted by Manach
    Cathars - which to my mine sounds like a cough complaint.


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    #660
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,703 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Back to a classical theme
    - Who was the first Roman Emperor whose father was then reigning Emperor, to succed him?

    Hint - I'd be lion if I said this was difficult :)


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    #661
    springbok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭springbok


    Titus Flavius Vespasianus


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