― Gale Deslongchamps, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Pete, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Samantha, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ronan, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sterling Clover, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― maryjanedownthelane, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mr. Potato, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Other links: First name of next murderous oppressor = Oliver. And James I's tongue was too big!! I wuv history!!
― mark s, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― jamie oliver cromwell, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― geoff, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nude Spock, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Highly insulting thread obv
Also, which war tbf
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 03:38 (seven years ago) link
Highly insulting because nude spock misheard the lyrics to the celtic symphony.
― the unbearable jimmy smits (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 04:03 (seven years ago) link
One of the things, yes
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 07:15 (seven years ago) link
Which reminds me I came across this again recently:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/lovespocky_zpsmsmomdky.jpg
― Half-baked profundities. Self-referential smirkiness (Bob Six), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 07:39 (seven years ago) link
IT was all started back in the 12th century by a gobshite named after a populist cider wasn't it?Invited some of his Brit mates over to help settle some squabble he'd got himself involved in and they moved in permanently.So 800 years later, after they'd continued exporting grain while half the population starved or fled to foreign climes we come to a point 100 years back now. Where while Blighty was trying to recruit its loyal supporters to get involved in an imperialistic foreign war some of them just said they'd had enough and took over the Post Office innit?
Oh & I haven't mentioned a major bunch of scots getting imported to the North in the 18th century and various resulting power balances at least partially based around religion. Though you do find taht some of the more famous Irish rebels were from unexpected churches, like.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
Not just Scots were imported btw.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 17:25 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgDIuYuXUAAPKBg.jpg
this a pretty stark graphic of the effects of war, famine, pestilence, death and mass flight if ever you are going to see one. Big nations recovered from Barbarossa, The Great Leap Forward, 30 year war, Terry Wogan etc. But the ROI is still half the size of it's 1841 population.
― calzino, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 11:32 (five years ago) link
was also my first thought. those ring forts from the Neolithic were no joke.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
big battle site round our way has a mention in the ancient oral traditions i keep telling imago to get on
― tired culché (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
The war against the British Empire of course, but much later about a quarter of a mill died for them in The Totally Shite War.
― calzino, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
oops ignore me aimless, you talking to dmac!
― calzino, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
But the ROI is still half the size of it's 1841 population.
― calzino
wow this is a genuinely surprising fact
― valorous wokelord (silby), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
lol those pesky brits why we oughtta *shakes fist*
― tired culché (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
I'm probably a bit inaccurate when you factor in the creation of N Ireland, but the it was 8 and a half million in 1841 according to the census, so still quite a cataclysmic collapse of population.
― calzino, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
tbf theres plenty in NI thatd quibble to be called irish so its a moot point
― tired culché (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link