I allowed for you doing a bit of work for a few months in the fourth year. The previous three were spent showing your protege round the internet
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… and on SLR watch.
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There’s a geographic pun lurking there somewhere.
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Dana wrote the song Yer Man the official song of the 1982 Northern Ireland World Cup
Squad
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Quisling
I thought she was a nordie?
Is limericks last all Ireland, before the asterisked one in 2018 on there, or does it not go back that far?
Christ.
It would have captured all of Galways semi final and final losses but they ran out of server space
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Fixed
I’m going to sleep now.
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Galway are class. They’ve won so many more All Irelands than Limerick as a result.
Limerick lads are obsessed with Galway.
Catch bars made a great comeback in the early noughties. They were gone from the shops since around 1980 I would guess but they.ve made a great comeback. Twould be great to see the Two in Two make the comeback.
Is there any theory why this was the case? Obviously land was an issue everywhere so why tipp so violent?
This had a knock on effect then when it was one of the most violent counties in the war of independence I presume
They were a staple all through the 80s mate, a great ad on tv with a catchy tune (first it’s crispy then it’s creamy) and mid price, more expensive than a macaroon or klipso but cheaper than a Cadbury bar
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That was the seventes dude. There wasn’t a catch t be seen n reland anytme after 81 .
I can still sing every word of that ad.
It was very catchy in fairness.
East Limerick, east Clare, Laois, Roscommon, Leitrim were all pretty violent… prime land in Tipp obviously but it was part local custom that played a part… Anyone taking land from someone that was evicted was violently met. But if you look at those counties, they are all pretty much down the middle of the country… Joe Lee argued that this is where the battle lines of a traditional economy was being met with a modern market economy at the time of the famine. The question had been largely settled in the east while the more western counties were still existing in a proto- industry/economy way of life … so in those middle belt counties common grazing and tillage areas were being done away with. The middle-classes were starting to grow, towns starting to dominate the economy and people starting to undercut with their prices - all added to land competition and land agent/landlord greed… They were still hunting with bow and arrow in places like Kerry and Galway.
That’s one theory very simply explained.
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