My family roots, one side clear the other side dark.

**ENT** · 14-07-2016, 12:34 AM

It must have been an environmental thing..

Nelly as Ned...

MAN ABOUT TOWN: Gay Bushrangers

**biff** · 14-07-2016, 03:52 AM

**Dillinger** · 14-07-2016, 06:41 AM

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

When you look at the development of business globally and in the early days the Irish were streets ahead of the Poms, Welsh and Jocks

Go on then. Name a famous Irish invention and inventor....

**crackerjack101** · 14-07-2016, 06:54 AM

Guinness

Arthur Guinness began brewing Guinness in Leixlip, County Kildare, before transferring to St. Jame’s Gate Brewery. In 1759, he signed a 9,000 year lease at £45 per year. That’s how confident he was in his product.

Now, 251 years on, the best selling alcoholic drink of all time boasts of sales exceeding $2.6 billion.

**DrB0b** · 14-07-2016, 06:59 AM

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

When you look at the development of business globally and in the early days the Irish were streets ahead of the Poms, Welsh and Jocks

Go on then. Name a famous Irish invention and inventor....

Pre-history
Ogham alphabet

14th century
Whiskey

17th century
1661: Modern Chemistry founded by Robert Boyle with the publication of The Sceptical Chymist
1662: Boyle's law discovered by Robert Boyle

18th century
1730: The concept of an entrepreneur - Richard Cantillon
1752: National Hunt racing

19th century
1805: Beaufort scale created by Francis Beaufort
1813: Clanny safety lamp created by William Reid Clanny
1820: 30 January, Edward Bransfield discovered the Antarctic Continent (mainland, islands were discovered earlier)
1820-25: The development of "Extra Stout" beer by The Second Arthur Guinness and others.
1831: Column still design enhanced and patented by Aeneas Coffey
1832: The Kyanizing process for preserving wood, created by John Howard Kyan
1834-35: The game of Croquet
1836: Induction coil created by Nicholas Callan
1843: Quaternion (a mathematical entity) first described by Sir William Rowan Hamilton
1844: Hollow needle in syringe created by Francis Rynd
1848: Kelvin scale created by William Thomson
1851: Seismology founded by Robert Mallet, who used dynamite explosions to measure the speed of elastic waves in surface rocks - pioneering and coining the word 'seismology'.
1851: Binaural stethoscope created by Arthur Leared
1866: The Standard drop method of hanging developed by Dr Samuel Haughton
1874: Electron introduced as a concept by George Johnstone Stoney
1874: Brennan torpedo created by Louis Brennan
1879: The rules of Hurling first standardized with the foundation of the Irish Hurling Union
1880: Boycott triggered by Charles Boycott over a dispute with the Irish Land League
1884: Steam Turbine: Compound Steam Turbine developed by Anglo-Irish engineer Charles Algernon Parsons. The Parsons family were resident in Birr, Co. Offaly.
1888: Gregg Shorthand created by John Robert Gregg
1894: Joly colour screen created by John Joly
1891: Tattoo machine created by Samuel O'Reilly
1897: Modern submarine design created by John Philip Holland.
Saccharimeter created by Rev John Jellet from Cashel, County Tipperary (1817–1888)

20th century
1900: Reflector sight created by Howard Grubb.
1910s: Radiotherapy developed by John Joly.
1926: Three point linkage, patented by Harry Ferguson.
1930: Nickel-zinc battery created by Dr. James Drumm.
1930s: The first disintegration of an atomic nucleus by artificially accelerated protons (splitting the atom) discovered by Ernest Walton et al
1946: Ejection seat - first live test of a reliable, successful modern ejection seat developed by James Martin
1954: Clofazimine first synthesized by a medical research team led by Cork man Vincent Barry at Trinity College, Dublin.
1965: Portable defibrillator created by Frank Pantridge.
1967: Pulsar co-discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
1970s: Positive end-expiratory pressure technique for treatment of pulmonary contusion - developed by staff at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.

And, while we're at it, Guerrilla Warfare.

**ENT** · 14-07-2016, 07:15 AM

2015 Ireland becomes first country to legalise gay marriage by popular vote.

**baldrick** · 14-07-2016, 07:27 AM

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Guerrilla Warfare.

is that the social for the throwbacks in the family ?

**Dillinger** · 14-07-2016, 07:46 AM

^^^ you had me at whiskey

**BaitongBoy** · 14-07-2016, 07:54 AM

^ And, if you note, that was in the 14th century following which there wasn't another "invention" for 3 centuries!...Good on them, I say...They were happy enough with only whiskey for quite some time...Heh...

**AntRobertson** · 14-07-2016, 07:55 AM

Originally Posted by DrB0b

And, while we're at it, Guerrilla Warfare.

That's nothing to be proud of.

Why pick a fight with those magnificent Primates. They're one of our closest extant relatives!

**Cujo** · 14-07-2016, 07:59 AM

Originally Posted by NZdick1983

We all know about DJ's famous family roots ey?

His cousin you mean?

**ENT** · 14-07-2016, 09:51 AM

Originally Posted by DrB0b

14th century..Whiskey

Wales 354 AD Whiskey( chwisgi) distilled from braggot.....Bardsey Island.

**sabang** · 14-07-2016, 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by DrB0b

My thoughts are that it's impossible to discuss such an idea on a forum like this.... There's no fun in changing the world if we're either sober or hungry or, God forbid, both!

Yes indeed. Think Brexit has rather more currency now anyway. Would be nice to catch up, if I'm ever up your way (NW?) and set the world right, again. With wine.

The Crown was my initial reluctance, anyway. Why should the Republic vote to 'reunite' with a Monarchy that served them few favours, and quite a few lumps? And the arch-Monarchists in the UK might be upset by the alteration of the demographic balance, potentially threatening the Institution and it's many toadies. Otherwise, seems to make sense.

**terry57** · 14-07-2016, 10:26 AM

Originally Posted by Cujo

Originally Posted by NZdick1983

We all know about DJ's famous family roots ey?

His cousin you mean?

Maybe Richard and DJPat could put on a family show.

**NZdick1983** · 14-07-2016, 10:31 AM

Originally Posted by Cujo

His cousin you mean?

Yup..

Originally Posted by terry57

Maybe Richard and DJPat could put on a family show.

Family show sounds like fun...You could be the game show host... hmmm making me feel kinda rapey.. ya dig?

**Cujo** · 14-07-2016, 10:38 AM

Originally Posted by NZdick1983

Originally Posted by Cujo

His cousin you mean?

Yup..

Originally Posted by terry57

Maybe Richard and DJPat could put on a family show.

Family show sounds like fun... making me feel kinda rapey.. ya dig?

You said rapey, I'm triggered... WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH. Where's the safe space on this forum?

**NZdick1983** · 14-07-2016, 10:40 AM

^ Between butter's legs... safe as trousers...

**ENT** · 14-07-2016, 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by DrB0b

1820-25: The development of "Extra Stout" beer by The Second Arthur Guinness and others.

The original "Guinness" recipe was introduced to Ireland by Welshman Arthur Price, Bishop of Cashel Ireland, who's servant Arthur Guinness was employed in managing the Bishop's estates and palace in making the brew. Arthur Price was godfather to Guinness' son Arthur, named in Arthur Price's honour, so becoming Arthur Guinness II.

Bishop Arthur Price had a brewery in the palace basement where various brews were made for both pilgrims and locals. So Arthur Price I brewed real ale according to Price's recipes, including black beer.

On his death in 1752, Price bequeathed 100 pounds each to Arthur Guinness I and his son Arthur Guinness II.

Arthur Guinness opened his first brewer in Leixlip Kildare then in 1759 moved to St James Gate estate Dublin.
That was the beginning of the Guinness ale legacy.

The Irish will argue about that forever, as Guinness is as Irish as "Danny Boy".

**Loy Toy** · 14-07-2016, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Go on then. Name a famous Irish invention and inventor

I was referring more to the setting up of immigrant Irish crews particularly in America and that is why I mentioned the Mafia.

Yes that business was not so above board but they certainly were successful when they needed to be and to support their families.

22 American Presidents had close Irish ancestry and other notables were Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Diamond Jim Brady, Alfred Hitchcock and Curt Cobain to name a few.

This link covers quite a few more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irish_Americans

**DrB0b** · 14-07-2016, 01:14 PM

Originally Posted by ENT

Originally Posted by DrB0b

14th century..Whiskey

Wales 354 AD Whiskey( chwisgi) distilled from braggot.....Bardsey Island.

An unverified rumour.

**ENT** · 14-07-2016, 01:23 PM

Sez you.

Interesting how the Irish or Scots words for whisky are derived from the Latin aqua vitae, a word introduced by Catholic priests to Ireland in the middle ages.

**Latindancer** · 14-07-2016, 01:52 PM

Oh yes....and Irish monasteries helped keep culture alive during the Dark Ages.

**Loy Toy** · 14-07-2016, 02:18 PM

My research has uncovered some interesting facts about my grandmother particularly being the first person to set up a proper post office as well as the telephone exchange in a remote area not far from Killarney on the New South Wales Queensland boarder.

Seems many people have conducted research having a great interest in her achievements especially giving birth 14 times, running a diary farm and the Post Office that was located in the family homestead.

There are also references to her running over the bushranger Thunderbolt when driving her bullock train when he tried to hold her up.

Touch lady, wonderful caring self sacrificing person loved by many and with true Irish spirit.

**DrB0b** · 14-07-2016, 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by ENT

Sez you.

Interesting how the Irish or Scots words for whisky are derived from the Latin aqua vitae, a word introduced by Catholic priests to Ireland in the middle ages.

Uisce Beatha is a translation of aqua vitae, not a derivation. It's good to see that in a world of constant change you remain as useless at languages as ever.

**DrB0b** · 14-07-2016, 02:24 PM

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

^ And, if you note, that was in the 14th century following which there wasn't another "invention" for 3 centuries!...Good on them, I say...They were happy enough with only whiskey for quite some time...Heh...

Those three centuries were the period they were working on the concept of guerilla warfare.

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