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September 15

1851 - Sir William Whitla, physician and professor, is born in Co. Monaghan
1865 - Police raid and close the Irish People offices; Rossa, Luby and O'Leary are arrested
1866 - John Blake Dillon, Young Irelander and co-founder of The Nation, dies in Killarney
1881 - First soccer international in Ireland; England beats the Irish squad Total crowd receipts: £9.19s.7d
1889 - Birth in Castlebar of singer Margaret Burke Sheridan
1905 - Pat O'Callaghan, physician, hammer-thrower and first man to win an Olympic gold medal while representing Ireland, is born near Kanturk, Co. Cork
1976 - Anne Letitia Dickson is elected leader of the Unionist Party of Northern ireland, becoming the first woman to lead a political party in Ireland
1997 - Sinn Fein joins multiparty peace talks in Northern Ireland
1999 - The Corrs, the Cranberries and the Chieftains take the lion’s share of £15.6 million collected by the Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) on behalf of Irish song writers
2000 - Sonia O'Sullivan leads the Irish team at a spectacular Olympic opening ceremony in Sydney, Australia
2001 - Aer Lingus, Delta and Continental Airlines resume services to and from Ireland. The first trans-Atlantic flights to the US leave for New York, Newark, Chicago and Washington. Priority status is given to all relatives of the victims and injured in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center.

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The funnel was invented when a man tried to pour stewed tomatoes through a trumpet.

There is a cemetery in Glasgow exclusively for bagpipes.

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Jaeger's Facts:

1 Co-operation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway.
2 It's a known fact - cross eyed teachers cannot control their pupils.
3 Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.
4 Use your head - it's the little things that count.
5 An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.
6 When success turns a man's head, it usually turns everyone else's stomach.
7 There is a difference between an open mind and a hole in the head.

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The Irish Empire



The English weren’t the only ones prone to a bit of colonialism. Montserrat is often referred to as “The Emerald Isle of The Caribbean” and boasts areas caked Kinsale and Cork. Many of the locals have Irish last names. This was because the island was settled in the seventeenth century by Irish Catholics. Unfortunately, the Irish settlers chose poorly as there was a huge volcanic eruption in 1995 which made a lot of the island uninhabitable and it is only just starting to recover now.


Up the Pole(s)

It’s official! According to the most recent census, there are now more Polish people in Ireland than there are native speakers of the original language of the isle, Gaelic. Obviously the Emerald Isle has a huge plumbing problem that isn’t mentioned often…

Scientific Eire



The Irish may not have as rich a heritage of scientific discovery as say, the Scots, but John Tyndall (left), an Irish scientist, discovered the answer to one of those really irritating questions that almost every child comes up with at some point.

The question is, of course, “Why is the sky blue?”.

The answer is because the eye is most sensitive to the colours blue and reddy purply stuff, The molecules in our air scatter the bluey molecules quicker than the reddy purply stuff.

So, in the day and without clouds, the sky looks blue as the sun is close to you at the time and reddish in the morning and evening because the light must travel further to get to you and the more of the bluey light has been scattered.

Until Tyndall people thought it was because it was dustier in the evening.

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Anthony Colby