Ireland's nobel prize winners

leonidas83

Anyone else think Ireland has more than punched above its weight when it comes to Nobel Laureates by country. We have seven overall, four for literature (Yeats, Heaney, Beckett, Shaw), two for peace (Hume & Macbride), one for physics (Walton). When you take into consideration countries like Spain (8), Portugal (4), India (7), Finland (4) with populations, etc much bigger than ours, its something to be definitely proud of unlike that useless football team of ours

flutterflye

leonidas83 wrote: »

Anyone else think Ireland has more than punched above its weight

Is that you Obama?

mikom

leonidas83 wrote: »

Anyone else think Ireland has more than punched above its weight when it comes to Nobel Laureates by country. We have seven overall, four for literature (Yeats, Heaney, Beckett, Shaw), two for peace (Hume & Macbride), one for physics (Walton).

They'll never get out of the group stages tbh.

laugh

I think the anglo blood on that list just serves to strengthen the argument that nationality is nothing more than a happy accident.

ejmaztec

leonidas83 wrote: »

Anyone else think Ireland has more than punched above its weight when it comes to Nobel Laureates by country. We have seven overall, four for literature (Yeats, Heaney, Beckett, Shaw), two for peace (Hume & Macbride), one for physics (Walton). When you take into consideration countries like Spain (8), Portugal (4), India (7), Finland (4) with populations, etc much bigger than ours, its something to be definitely proud of unlike that useless football team of ours

I don't think there is a Nobel Prize category for Katie Taylor, or we'd probably get another one.

SocSocPol

leonidas83 wrote: »

Anyone else think Ireland has more than punched above its weight when it comes to Nobel Laureates by country. We have seven overall, four for literature (Yeats, Heaney, Beckett, Shaw), two for peace (Hume & Macbride), one for physics (Walton). When you take into consideration countries like Spain (8), Portugal (4), India (7), Finland (4) with populations, etc much bigger than ours, its something to be definitely proud of unlike that useless football team of ours

Five actually, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan 1976! Davide Trimble with Hume.

leonidas83

SocSocPol wrote: »

Five actually, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan 1976! Davide Trimble with Hume.

All the better although claiming Trimble as our own would be a bit much, the UK can have him;)

SocSocPol

leonidas83 wrote: »

All the better although claiming Trimble as our own would be a bit much, the UK can have him;)

In that case they should also have Hume,Heaney,Corrigan and Williams.
With all those gone maybe we aint doing that well after all!

leonidas83

SocSocPol wrote: »

In that case they should also have Hume,Heaney,Corrigan and Williams.
With all those gone maybe we aint doing that well after all!

Ah FFS

Ostrom

John Sweeney also shared the peace prize for co-authoring an IPCC report on climate change.

arybvtcw0eolkf

In 1988 the 63rd Irish Battalion serving with UNIFIL in Lebanon shared in the honours when the Nobel Prize for Peace went to the United Nations Peace Keeping Forces.

We sent a representative, a private soldier serving Lebanon to the ceremones in Oslo.

SocSocPol

Saige Slimy Quintuplet wrote: »

In 1988 the 63rd Irish Battalion serving with UNIFIL in Lebanon shared in the honours when the Nobel Prize for Peace went to the United Nations Peace Keeping Forces.

We sent a representative, a private soldier serving Lebanon to the ceremones in Oslo.

Thats right, sorry even I forgot the blue helmets. Bloody well deserved it was too.

Mardy Bum

James Joyce should have won it as well but his work was too modern and intelligent for the committee to appreciate.

af_thefragile

Mardy Bum wrote: »

James Joyce should have won it as well but his work was too modern and intelligent for the committee to appreciate.

Or maybe they got too bored...

Mardy Bum

af_thefragile wrote: »

Or maybe they got too bored...

They must have been bored of Ibsen, Chekhov, Proust, Tolstoy and James too!

Wacker The Attacker

leonidas83 wrote: »

Anyone else think Ireland has more than punched above its weight when it comes to Nobel Laureates by country. We have seven overall, four for literature (Yeats, Heaney, Beckett, Shaw), two for peace (Hume & Macbride), one for physics (Walton). When you take into consideration countries like Spain (8), Portugal (4), India (7), Finland (4) with populations, etc much bigger than ours, its something to be definitely proud of unlike that useless football team of ours

a) Our football team hasnt lost 60-0 to anyone recently
b) Our football sqaud has actually overachieved given the talent at their disposal.
c) Denmark, a country of similar population has 14. If Ireland has punched above its weight then so have other nations

Wacker The Attacker

ejmaztec wrote: »

I don't think there is a Nobel Prize category for Katie Taylor, or we'd probably get another one.

Far be it from me to downplay her achievements but she is an amateur after all.

Why not have a nobel prize for GAA players while we're at it

John Doe1

Bono is bound to won one at some period

SocSocPol

John Doe1 wrote: »

Bono is bound to won one at some period

Why? do they have a Nobel Prize for tax evaders with huge egos?

Marcusm

leonidas83 wrote: »

Anyone else think Ireland has more than punched above its weight when it comes to Nobel Laureates by country. We have seven overall, four for literature (Yeats, Heaney, Beckett, Shaw), two for peace (Hume & Macbride), one for physics (Walton). When you take into consideration countries like Spain (8), Portugal (4), India (7), Finland (4) with populations, etc much bigger than ours, its something to be definitely proud of unlike that useless football team of ours

If you're including Hume, would you not include Corrigan/Williams?

SocSocPol

Marcusm wrote: »

If you're including Hume, would you not include Corrigan/Williams?

And Trimble

leonidas83

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

a) Our football team hasnt lost 60-0 to anyone recently
b) Our football sqaud has actually overachieved given the talent at their disposal.
c) Denmark, a country of similar population has 14. If Ireland has punched above its weight then so have other nations

a) It was meant in a light hearted way
b) We may not have lost 60-0 but we played terrible football and had the joint worst tournament ever in a European championship
c) Of course other countries have done well too but Ireland has alot to be proud of considering how small we are, I didnt say we were the best but that we've done well
d) I think you need to get a bit of a life

John Doe1

SocSocPol wrote: »

And Trimble

Im pretty sure he doesnt identify himself as irish

leonidas83

Marcusm wrote: »

If you're including Hume, would you not include Corrigan/Williams?

Yah that was pointed out earlier, ive no problem in including them. Just dont let the thread descent into another northern Ireland debate

kincsem

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

Ireland

John Hume, Peace, 1998
Séamus Heaney, Literature, 1995
Seán MacBride, Peace, 1974
Samuel Beckett, Literature, 1969
Ernest Walton, Physics, 1951
George Bernard Shaw*, Literature, 1925
William Butler Yeats, Literature, 1923

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Nobel_laureates_per_capita
Go Faroe Islands and Saint Lucia

Ellis Dee

efla wrote: »

John Sweeney also shared the peace prize for co-authoring an IPCC report on climate change.

And well deserved, too. :D

However, John is Scottish.:)

Brain Stroking

leonidas83 wrote: »

a) It was meant in a light hearted way
b) We may not have lost 60-0 but we played terrible football and had the joint worst tournament ever in a European championship
c) Of course other countries have done well too but Ireland has alot to be proud of considering how small we are, I didnt say we were the best but that we've done well
d) I think you need to get a bit of a life

It's funny because i think our football team has actually overachieved to be in the top 16 in Europe (based on our population) whereas our Nobel Prize haul hasnt been anything out of the ordinary.

Mardy Bum

Brain Stroking wrote: »

It's funny because i think our football team has actually overachieved to be in the top 16 in Europe (based on our population) whereas our Nobel Prize haul hasnt been anything out of the ordinary.

We are 12th in the world per capita for Nobel Prizes though. The comparison, obviously in jest, is stupid anyway; a Nobel prize is awarded for a massive contribution to humanity while soccer is a game.

kowloon

The Nobel Prizes annoy me a little, great work is rarely the preserve of an individual. The science awards mean a hell of a lot less when the science is no longer the work of individuals in sheds. The UN one Makikomi mentioned is what it should be all about. Not awarding managers for the work of their minions.

I know I'm being harsh, but it really does seem to being going that way. Research assistants lose out on all the love while their supervisors sign their name to the work.

ride-the-spiral

If you want to be technical, Erwin Schrodinger was an Irish citizen who had won the Nobel Prize for physics, although he was not Irish at the time of winning.

Ostrom

Ellis Dee wrote: »

And well deserved, too. :D

However, John is Scottish.:)

And even after three years of geography in Maynooth, that somehow escaped me. Oops... Perhaps we can lay part claim to it, since the funding for ICARUS came from us....?