What is the most interesting fact about Northren Ireland that you didn't know?

failinis

Northern Ireland tends to get a bad rap on boards, so after seeing all the interesting facts on Dublin, there must be a few ones on the whole of Northern Ireland/counties with in.

One fact I was recently corrected on was that Derry was known as the Maiden City because of the fact the Derry walls have never been breached - my father wrongly told me it was because after the war there were more women in Derry than men.

Another one would be that Austin's is the world's oldest independent department stores.

And that the largest gay bar has a statue of Lenin outside it.

Anyone else got recently learnt facts on here?

lertsnim

As soon as I hear it i'll let you know.

turnikett1

That there was loyalist hunger strikers too.

Celly Smunt

6 out of 10 men still have kneecaps.

ancapailldorcha

Belfast is an awesome city.

jimgoose

Briana Corrigan, formerly of The Beautiful South, is from Portstewart. Beautiful town on the Northern tip of Derry, great nightlife and possibly the best place to stay for the Northwest 200. Keep 'er lit, hi!! :cool:

token56

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

Belfast is an awesome city.

Northern Ireland has some amazing places to visit, but Belfast is really not a nice city in my opinion.

Legs.Eleven

jimgoose wrote: »

Briana Corrigan, formerly of The Beautiful South, is from Portstewart. Beautiful town on the Northern tip of Derry, great nightlife and possibly the best place to stay for the Northwest 200. Keep 'er lit, hi!! :cool:

I was a massive Beautiful South fan when I was youngin'. Twas my first ever gig in The Point in 1992. I wanted to be Briana Corrigan and always pretended I was her singing with the band in front of the mirror with a hairbrush.

Gatling

Some dodgy bearded types live there

Shiraz 4.99

It's only the scanger chavs that cause the bother, nobody middle class gives a toss.

jimgoose

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

I was a massive Beautiful South fan when I was youngin'. Twas my first ever gig in The Point in 1992. I wanted to be Briana Corrigan and always pretended I was her singing with the band in front of the mirror with a hairbrush.

Great voice, she has. While we're on memories, I was at the NW200 a good few years back, watching the 250cc two-strokes yowling through the centre of Portstewart on their way out to the coast road by the golf course, and smelling the burning Castrol-R. Local fella beside me says, "Smell thawt, hi?? Thawt's Gawd's fawrts!!"

Alf. A. Male

I like it when people from Norn Iron refer to people from the south as Mexicans

Gatling

The NW 200 is an amazing event ,been to several over the years always love going back ,
A credit to the community and organisers

AnonoBoy

Due to an error in the 1800's when new maps of The British Isles were being drawn up using the Mercator projection Northern Ireland was mistakenly put at the North of the island of Ireland whereas as we all know Northern Ireland is actually in the West of the island when the more accurate Miller projection is used.

jimgoose

Alf. A. Male wrote: »

I like it when people from Norn Iron refer to people from the south as Mexicans

Me too. I usually just yell back "See ye, hi! Shut yer fuckan moyth!!"

alwayssideways

Alf. A. Male wrote: »

I like it when people from Norn Iron refer to people from the south as Mexicans

So do I, they are insulting themselves by inferring they are Americans. Nobody wants to be an American!

AnonoBoy

alwayssideways wrote: »

So do I, they are insulting themselves by inferring they are Americans. Nobody wants to be an American!

You've never spent any time near a teenager from Dun Laoghaire then.

Tabnabs

Nicholas Edmund Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, aka, Baron Ashley of Wimborne St Giles and, finally, Baron Cooper of Pawlett owns Lough Neagh. All of it, it's all his, the 15th biggest lake in Europe, supplies 40% of NI's drinking water, one lad owns it all.

Suckers!

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller

They hate icebergs.

Birneybau

It's actually the Republic of Iceland but they don't like to be reminded of it.

smcgiff

Alf. A. Male wrote: »

I like it when people from Norn Iron refer to people from the south as Mexicans

Those North Koreans sure like their Lols

gugleguy

If you are carrying euro coins, throw all of them into the street buskers and musicians. Sterling is a lot more readily accepted otherwise.

WesternZulu

About 2/3's of the workforce is employed in the public sector.

gugleguy

Surprised that I don't see the Northern Ireland counterpart of Czarcasm posting in this thread (not YOU Czarcasm). Not altogether caustic soda this boardsie is....:D

Mr. CooL ICE

Something about flegs

BBDBB

That this is how they talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mekofQWyJb0

creolebelle

alwayssideways wrote: »

So do I, they are insulting themselves by inferring they are Americans. Nobody wants to be an American!

The amount of people who immigrate to the U.S says otherwise

Davarus Walrus

8% of all money spent in the Northern Ireland economy is on over-sized Tricolours and Union Jacks.

WesternZulu

It says NO apparently.

Aongus Von Bismarck

Northerners smile a whopping 300% less than their southern counterparts.

gugleguy

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Northerners smile a whopping 300% less than their southern counterparts.

They take that cue from that bronze statue of a man on the plinth in front of Stormont with a stern expression on his face, pointing assertively.

Davarus Walrus

An Ulster Breakfast doesn't traditionally include black pudding, and is therefore an inferior form of fried breakfast - despite it being a source of cross-community pride up North.

jimgoose

Tabnabs wrote: »

Nicholas Edmund Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, aka, Baron Ashley of Wimborne St Giles and, finally, Baron Cooper of Pawlett owns Lough Neagh. All of it, it's all his, the 15th biggest lake in Europe, supplies 40% of NI's drinking water, one lad owns it all.

Suckers!

I have it on good authority that Phil Hogan has a life-sized poster of this dude on his bedroom wall. :pac::pac::pac:

jimgoose

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

An Ulster Breakfast doesn't traditionally include black pudding, and is therefore an inferior form of fried breakfast - despite it being a source of cross-community pride up North.

Yes, the legendary Ulster Fry. However, the potato-cakes, or "Tatie Bread, hi!" in the vernacular, partially make up for it.

Aongus Von Bismarck

Initially Northerners seem tribal, stand-offish and bitter to newcomers, after you get to know them well you realise this is not the case at all. Being a newcomer has nothing to do with it, they're like that all the time.

gugleguy

Northern Ireland folk don't say "fór fuxx sake". They say "Fúck á doodle - dooooo":D:D

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller

In 1987 (the year after Ferris Bueller was released) Mattew Broderick was involved in a head on collusion in Enniskillen in which a local mother and daughter were killed instantly:

On August 5, 1987, Broderick was in a car accident in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, while vacationing with Jennifer Grey (star of Dirty Dancing) whom he had begun dating in semi-secrecy during the filming of Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

The accident, which was the event through which their relationship became public, occurred when the rented BMW Broderick was driving crossed into the wrong lane and collided head-on with a Volvo driven by Anna Gallagher 28, accompanied by her mother, Margaret Doherty 63, who were killed instantly in the accident.

Broderick suffered a fractured leg, fractured ribs, a concussion, and a collapsed lung. Grey received minor injuries, including severe whiplash. Broderick told authorities he had no recollection of the crash and did not know why he was in the wrong lane. "I don't remember the day. I don't remember even getting up in the morning. I don't remember making my bed. What I first remember is waking up in the hospital, with a very strange feeling going on in my leg," he said at the time.

Broderick was charged with causing death by dangerous driving and faced up to five years in prison, but was later convicted of the lesser charge of careless driving and fined $175, which the victims' family called "a travesty of justice." Martin Doherty, whose sister and mother were killed in the crash, later stated that he forgave Broderick, amid plans to meet with Broderick in 2003, in order to gain a sense of closure. As of March 2014, the meeting has not taken place.

jimgoose

gugleguy wrote: »

Northern Ireland folk don't say "fór fuxx sake". They say "Fúck á doodle - do":D:D

Fuck-a-doodle-doodle-doodle-doodle-doodle-doodle-do sit-YASHUN!! :pac::pac::pac:

Fentdog84

Most of the people who live there are not actually Irish. They are decendents of King Herod's army from 667 bc

Mr. Nice

How it's spelt.
For years I thought it was Northern Ireland.
I feel so embarrassed now having seen the correct spelling in the thread title.

stefan idiot jones

Their two most famous sporting icons liked to drink.

pickarooney

Tabnabs wrote: »

Nicholas Edmund Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, aka, Baron Ashley of Wimborne St Giles and, finally, Baron Cooper of Pawlett owns Lough Neagh. All of it, it's all his, the 15th biggest lake in Europe, supplies 40% of NI's drinking water, one lad owns it all.

Suckers!

This guy seems like a bit of a ledgebag and a distant relative of Australian rugby international Adam Ashley Cooper no doubt.

whiskeyman

sit-YASHUN!!

It has been proven impossible for a Norn Iron politician to be interviewed without using the term 'sit-yashun'.

gramar

The use purr shurrs for washing more commonly known as electric or power showers down south.

Donkey Oaty

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

a source of cross-community pride up North.

That's worth a thread of its own.

Sports has a few - has anyone from there got much of a bad word to say about Barry McGuigan, George Best or Dennis Taylor?

I am pie

NI is a magnet which draws out the cliches and stereotypes from it's conflicted (do we or don't we) southern cousins.

I am pie

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

That's worth a thread of its own.

Sports has a few - has anyone from there got much of a bad word to say about Barry McGuigan, George Best or Dennis Taylor?

Happy to claim the Clonus Cyclone, but he was a monaghan man no? Claimed as a son of the north through Barney Eastwoods guiding hand.

Tommy Bowe has good cross commuity appeal, possibly the Dunlops with the motorbike racing, although I've no idea really about them.

jimgoose

I am pie wrote: »

Happy to claim the Clonus Cyclone, but he was a monaghan man no? Claimed as a son of the north through Barney Eastwoods guiding hand.

Tommy Bowe has good cross commuity appeal, possibly the Dunlops with the motorbike racing, although I've no idea really about them.

Yes, Michael Dunlop is well thought-of by all communities - or at least, those in the communities that know one end of a motorbike from the other. Very hard to eclipse the great Joey, though.

There's also the likes of Phil McCallen, Jeremy McWilliams, Ryan Farquhar, Eugene Laverty and Jonny Rea.

awec

Alf. A. Male wrote: »

I like it when people from Norn Iron refer to people from the south as Mexicans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZYPa6tI43Q

Donkey Oaty

I am pie wrote: »

Happy to claim the Clonus Cyclone, but he was a monaghan man no? Claimed as a son of the north through Barney Eastwoods guiding hand.

Interesting one, because he trained in NI, and was hugely popular there from both sides of the community. When his father was asked:

Is he fighting for Britain or is he fighting for Ireland?

he replied:

He's fighting for money.

Singing "Danny Boy" instead of a national anthem before his fights was an inspired choice.

Witchie

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »

In 1987 (the year after Ferris Bueller was released) Mattew Broderick was involved in a head on collusion in Enniskillen in which a local mother and daughter were killed instantly:

My aunt, a nurse in the Erne attended to the victims of this crash and happened to know the family too. I remember being so upset about it all coz I loved MB back then.

Here's an interesting fact about NI for you, I was born there as were all of my siblings.

Enniskillen is built on islands and linked by bridges. It's a kinda Venice of the North of Ireland.