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  1. On a fourth date, we decided to go to an indie movie house & watched Capturing the Friedmans.

  2. I went for a visit to the National Stud in Kildare - there was a weighing scales for horses on display. So I hopped on. Needless to say i was surprised & joined a gym pretty soon after!

  3. Another interesting fact related to this - Nordic people tan better due to this fish diet, due to ingestion of chemicals from fish which help with tanning process. Otherwise known as why we burn & they do not...

  4. We produce enough milk for 53 million people

  5. The culture around alcohol is so fuckin weird. It’s literally the only substance that people question why I don’t consume it. They warned us about teenage peer pressure when it came to drugs but in reality, it’s adults peer pressuring you into drinking. I’ve turned down countless joints and bowls of weed without a single question or pressure to partake. But the second I say “I don’t drink” suddenly it’s “well why not? That’s weird” or “just have one” or “just try it!” You don’t need to know why, just know that I don’t drink.

  6. Very relatable...lying. This is an option for non drinkers...i get why people lie to get out of peer pressure, but maybe being firm & honest is a better option.

  7. I don't drink. I decided when I hit 35 that I just didn't like it anymore. Most everyone I know knows that I don't drink and nobody cares. It's literally never been an issue. If I got to a bar, I drink water, diet coke or sometimes I'll go crazy and have a Roy Roger's (easy on the Roy, heavy on the Rogers).

  8. So you drank from the age of 18 - 35 when most people date. Very relatable to someone who didnt drink for those years...

  9. With a name. He played on someone's Cumann na Bunscoil GAA team...

  10. I was a tour guide in Dublin for a summer & we noted this confirmation bias. When you live in a city, you notice everything as you pass it everyday...so the good blends in with the 'percieved' bad. Tourists are only attracted to the pretty/the unusual. Think when you go on holiday to a large city, do you notice the dilapidated high rises or signs or urban sprawl? All of Rome is not the city centre. We particularly noticed it if an Irish person was on the tour with a foreign friend, the difference.

  11. If you were are looking at the MACRO level History is becoming less cruel - on average people live longer, are less likely to die from disease & possibly war and have better opportunities ( or a least better than their parents).

  12. That the Irish are the biggest drunks in the world, completely false and mean as we're only the second biggest drinker in the world but we hope to get first place next year

  13. As an Irishman who does not drink alcohol, i always tell people we are 7th biggest alcohol drinkers in the world but the 2nd biggest tea drinkers. But why are we always in bars and fighting & THEY are always pictured as refined with their pastries.....( they are 3rd)

  14. I think of the worst prepared, worst presentation I gave & say - it cant be worse than that ( i was previously a teacher so think back to my first ever class of 6 year olds)...

  15. I'm originally a specialist in nineteenth-century Ireland but have a strong secondary interest in the seventeenth-century. An initial comment on the question is to unpack the idea of an "English Civil War." That's now totally out of favour and the idea of a "Wars of the Three Kingdoms" is more accurate. The conflict began in the late 1630s with Scottish resistance to King Charles I's religious policies. It was exacerbated by a rebellion in Ireland in 1641. Charles' relationship with the English Parliament broke down into warfare by 1642, but to see the conflict as a merely an English civil war is inaccurate. There was an internal civil war in Scotland during the whole period as well, whilst the main body of the Scots government was allied to the English Parliament. This didn't last, and by the 1650s the English Commonwealth was at war with their former allies in Scotland. The Anglocentricity of the historiography is incredible, though. The 1650-51 campaign was a straightforward war between the English Commonwealth and the Kingdom of Scotland, then ruled by Charles II. Yet it's often called the "Third English Civil War," even though almost no English people fought on the Royalist side.

  16. I studied the 1641 despositions in college and we talked about them as some of first really great 'fake news' and actually we compared them to other first hand witness accounts which have been influential on the histiography of their periods. Any estimations of death figures from that period will be deeply flawed.

  17. Notable Female Rulers can often be the issue here - as the historical female ruler has to have had the agency to take 'lovers' or 'consorts' or concubines as you mention. Add in the morality of the age & the records, concubines may be more inferred than outright identified.

  18. Hiberno English - or English spoke in Ireland broke off from English spoke in England in the late 1700s to the mid to late 1800s.

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