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New Ireland

  • 28-12-2009 8:38pm
    #1
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭


    *This Is Not A Parody Thread* .. but the other one made me think of it..

    There's actually a place called New Ireland.. it's a large island off New Guinea.. used to be called 'Gerrman New Guinea' but we must have defeated them in some game or something to take the name :P

    Anyway, should we go there and make it our own? Sure the job's already half done


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  • #2
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,323 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    My name is URL wrote: »
    *This Is Not A Parody Thread* .. but the other one made me think of it..

    There's actually a place called New Ireland.. it's a large island off New Guinea.. used to be called 'Gerrman New Guinea' but we must have defeated them in some game or something to take the name :P

    Anyway, should we go there and make it our own? Sure the job's already half done

    That's excellent!


  • #3
    Anton.Mamyko
    Closed Accounts Posts: 63 ✭✭Anton.Mamyko


    Ye lol, common Ireland! earn your spot amongst the european states and go invade some one heh


  • #4
    jaffa20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭jaffa20


    My name is URL wrote: »

    Anyway, should we go there and make it our own? Sure the job's already half done


    Yeah, they could make some Malagan for our funerals.:eek:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malagan

    Interesting culture though if you read up about it.


  • #5
    Plug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    Anton.Mamyko wrote: »
    Ye lol, common Ireland! earn your spot amongst the european states and go invade some one heh
    We invaded plenty of other countries, but we go only armed with a sleeping bag and a phone number.


  • #6
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Plug wrote: »
    We invaded plenty of other countries, but we go only armed with a sleeping bag and a phone number.

    Thanks Tommy Tiernan.


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  • #7
    wtgorilla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭wtgorilla


    My name is URL wrote: »
    *This Is Not A Parody Thread* .. but the other one made me think of it..

    There's actually a place called New Ireland.. it's a large island off New Guinea.. used to be called 'Gerrman New Guinea' but we must have defeated them in some game or something to take the name :P

    Anyway, should we go there and make it our own? Sure the job's already half done

    Somehow I am thinking that your return journey would be much much quicker than expected.

    I only came to ask a question, and tonight makes it my second. So somehow I don't think that that island is Irish afterall.


  • #8
    brummytom
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    Was that the one on The Panel ages ago, the Irish tourist board 'declared war' on them for the slogan; "Come to New Ireland, it's better than Old Ireland" ??


  • #9
    El Siglo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    Yes, that'll really show the brits how great we are. I can see it now, colonialism Irish style, defeat and occupy the peaceful inhabitants of a tropical Pacific paradise roughly the size of Cork... some how it doesn't have that whole 'empire' feel to it.;) Besides, we'd make awful rulers, they're would be houses built all over the place!


  • #10
    Plug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Thanks Tommy Tiernan.
    No problem!


  • #11
    citizen_p
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,494 ✭✭✭citizen_p


    like the christmas islands have paris, london etc... ass town names


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  • #12
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    If they can grow bananas, the'll make a beter banana republic than we are.:(


  • #13
    whadabouchasir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 942 ✭✭✭whadabouchasir


    Why is it called New Ireland if it wasn't discovered by or invaded by the Irish?Were they just running short of names?


  • #14
    pablomakaveli
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    Theres a New Britain island right next to it. It like having Ireland Jr. and Britain Jr.


  • #15
    jaffa20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭jaffa20


    whadabouchasir wrote: »
    Why is it called New Ireland if it wasn't discovered by or invaded by the Irish?Were they just running short of names?

    Australia took control in 1914, in the early stages of World War I, and renamed the island as New Ireland. It became part of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea declared in 1921 by the League of Nations and administered by Australia.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Ireland_Province


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