Bono & Rory fucking McIlroy
broadcasting legends like Gay Byrne and Sir Terry Wogan
Marty Whelan
Tayto sandwiches
The Ayatollah Céilí Band
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Light in the western sky.
Thats what i said bud.
I know bud. I was alluding to both that, and the Stocktons wing album.
The stretch in the evenings in the summer.
Was here today. What an establishment
The Skelligs
''To say that Ireland has not prospered under English rule is simply a truism; all the world admits it
,
England does not deny it. But the English retort is ready. You have not prosper
ed, they say, because
you would not settle down contentedly, like the Scotch, and form part of the Empire. ‘Twenty years
of good, resolute, grandfatherly government’, said a well
known Englishman, will solve the Irish
question. He possibly made the period
too short, but let us suppose this. Let us suppose for a
moment
which is impossible
that there were to arise a series of Cromwells in England for the
space of one hundred years, able administrators of the Empire, careful rulers of Ireland, developing
to the utmost our national resources, whilst they unremittingly stamped out every spark of national
feeling, making Ireland a land of wealth and factories, whilst they extinguished every thought and
every idea that was Irish, and left us, at last, after a
hundred years of good government, fat, wealthy,
and populous, but with all our characteristics gone, with every external that at present differentia
tes
us from the English lost or dropped; all our Irish names of places and people turned into English
names
; the Irish language completely extinct; the O’s and the Macs dropped; our Irish intonation
changed, as far as possible by English schoolmasters into something English; our history no longer
remembered or taught; the names of our rebels and martyrs blotted
out; our battlefields and
traditions forgotten; the fact that we were not of Saxon origin dropped out of sight and memory,
and let me now put the question
How many Irishmen are there who would purchase material
prosperity at such a price? It is exactly
such a question as this and the answer to it that shows the
difference between the English and Irish race. Nine Englishmen out of ten would jump to make the
exchange, and I as firmly believe that nine Irishmen out of ten would indignantly refuse it.’’
This thread is hilarious.
Our ability to laugh at ourselves.
Strange but true and well documented by Christopher Columbus leaving him to believe that there was land out there to the west.
The same land that was mapped thousands of years earlier? And settled on by Vikings in the middle ages? — You’d imagine a few lads with red skin wearing buffalo hides landing in Carraroe or Kilbaha might have been recorded somewhere - and if it was - who fed it to Chris?
I refer you to this book and TV series.
It refers to Columbus making notes of seeing a shipwrecked native American couple in Galway Bay in 1477. Unfortunately his notes do not say whether they were living or dead.
A very poorly written book it has to be said - no structure to it.
You’ve read it?