I bet you didnt know that

Ipso

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Rory Gallagher also born there.

Lot of history for a relatively small place.

If you had sham blood, you'd probably also be driven to write horror.

Gloomtastic!

Ipso wrote: »

If you had sham blood, you'd probably also be driven to write horror.

Not even the mighty Google knows what sham blood is! Care to share?

Ipso

Sham is a term people from Ballyshannon throw around. Strange place, not quite Donegal, Fermanagh or Leitrim.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

I only ever heard sham in Tuam.

IvyTheTerrible

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

I only ever heard sham in Tuam.

It's commonplace in Sligo.

donegaLroad

Youd get the odd sham about Fermanagh too. Derrygonnelly etc

retalivity

And throughout the rest of donegal as well.

After the esb station and reservoir was built on the erne, and before the new bypass was built around ballyshannon, there was only the one bridge crossing the erne, joining the north bank of ballyshannon with the south. This was also the only bridge that joined all of donegal north of the river with the south, so if you wanted to go north of ballyshannon without having to traverse northern ireland, you crossed this bridge.

I had heard rumours before that during the troubles there was a plot by the uvf or similar to blow it up and effectively cut off northern donegal with the rest of the republic by road, due to the border restrictions and fear at the time. Not sure if there was ever any truth in it.

Ipso

Another for the Shams.
William Allingham lived there, he wrote the following poem.

Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren’t go a-hunting
For fear of little men;
Wee folk, good folk,
Trooping all together;
Green jacket, red cap,
And white owl’s feather!

Down along the rocky shore
Some make their home,
They live on crispy pancakes
Of yellow tide-foam;
Some in the reeds
Of the black mountain-lake,
With frogs for their watchdogs,
All night awake.

High on the hill-top
The old King sits;
He is now so old and grey
He’s nigh lost his wits.
With a bridge of white mist
Columbkill he crosses,
On his stately journeys
From Slieveleague to Rosses;
Or going up with the music
On cold starry nights,
To sup with the Queen
Of the gay Northern Lights.

They stole little Bridget
For seven years long;
When she came down again
Her friends were all gone.
They took her lightly back,
Between the night and morrow,
They thought that she was fast asleep,
But she was dead with sorrow.
They have kept her ever since
Deep within the lake,
On a bed of fig-leaves,
Watching till she wake.

By the craggy hillside,
Through the mosses bare,
They have planted thorn trees
For my pleasure, here and there.
Is any man so daring
As dig them up in spite,
He shall find their sharpest thorns
In his bed at night.

Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren’t go a-hunting
For fear of little men;
Wee folk, good folk,
Trooping all together;
Green jacket, red cap,
And white owl’s feather!

donegaLroad

retalivity wrote: »

And throughout the rest of donegal as well.

After the esb station and reservoir was built on the erne, and before the new bypass was built around ballyshannon, there was only the one bridge crossing the erne, joining the north bank of ballyshannon with the south. This was also the only bridge that joined all of donegal north of the river with the south, so if you wanted to go north of ballyshannon without having to traverse northern ireland, you crossed this bridge.

I had heard rumours before that during the troubles there was a plot by the uvf or similar to blow it up and effectively cut off northern donegal with the rest of the republic by road, due to the border restrictions and fear at the time. Not sure if there was ever any truth in it.

There was truth in it alright. It was a plot to blow up the dam at the hydro station.

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Greybottle

If you want to drive from the north of Leitrim to the south you have to leave the county. It is split by Lough Allen.

Drive from Drumshanbo up the west side to Drumkeeran, you pass through Co Roscommon.

Go up the east side to Dowra and on to Drumkeeran, you briefly pass through Co Cavan.

Ipso

Greybottle wrote: »

If you want to drive from the north of Leitrim to the south you have to leave the county. It is split by Lough Allen.

Drive from Drumshanbo up the west side to Drumkeeran, you pass through Co Roscommon.

Go up the east side to Dowra and on to Drumkeeran, you briefly pass through Co Cavan.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire.

4068ac1elhodqr

“Achooooooooo-ooooo!”

Holding your nose and closing your mouth while you sneeze (<100mph) might seem a harmless thing to do.
But doctors have advised against it following the case of man who 'ruptured the back of his throat when doing so' (just 2 days ago).

Better out than in, but not all over your neighbour all the same.

New Home

Weighing over 400 lbs, this is heart of a Blue Whale. At a rate of 8 – 10 beats per minute the blue whale's heartbeat can be heard from over 2 miles away.

New Home

New Home wrote: »

For certain types of scans people have to ingest or are injected with a medical contrast medium which increases the visibility of blood vessels and other parts of the body, like the gastrointestinal tract. These contrast agents are both very expensive and can cause very serious side effects. Over the last few years, it's been discovered that pineapple juice (and blueberry juice), when ingested, has the exact same effect as the contrast in terms of making parts of the gastrointestinal area more visible (this juice can't be used for, let's say, scans to the brain).

It was found to have "superparamagnetic" properties which cancel out the "hyper-intensity of the white signal of the duodenal gastric juice", among other things (or something to that effect).

Just one hospital went from spending €14,000 a year for the medium to about €400 for the juice.

More here (for neonatal use), and here.

DEFTLEFTHAND

New Home wrote: »

Weighing over 400 lbs, this is heart of a Blue Whale. At a rate of 8 – 10 beats per minute the blue whale's heartbeat can be heard from over 2 miles away.

Incredible picture. Thanks for sharing, I've always been fascinated by Blue Whales.

david75

SimonTemplar wrote: »

85 year old movie composer John Williams (Jaws, Star Wars, ET, Indy, Schlinder's List, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, Home Alone, etc) has never upskilled with modern technology and is in fact a complete novice when it comes to anything modern. Therefore, he is the only major Hollywood composer who still uses just a piano, pencil and paper when writing scores without any use of any synth or computer programs. Most movie composers use computer based orchestra mockup tools before passing it to a real orchestra, but Williams has been composing in the same way as he did in the 1950s.

His son is the lead singer in Toto.

byte

donegaLroad wrote: »

Lucas Graham's dad was also from Ballyshannon, and Tony Blair's mother too.

And, for videogame players, PlayerUnknown (Brendan Greene), eh, known for a popular game, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, was born in Ballyshannon, where I think his father was stationed in the army at Finner Camp. I think they moved to Kildare early in his youth.

howyanow

Greybottle wrote: »

If you want to drive from the north of Leitrim to the south you have to leave the county. It is split by Lough Allen.

Drive from Drumshanbo up the west side to Drumkeeran, you pass through Co Roscommon.

Go up the east side to Dowra and on to Drumkeeran, you briefly pass through Co Cavan.

I don't think this is true.
You can go from drumshanbo to Carrick via Leitrim village and not leave the county!

New Home

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Incredible picture. Thanks for sharing, I've always been fascinated by Blue Whales.

What I find completely mind-boggling is that on one end of the scale you've got mammals the size of blue whales, and on the other you have the most minuscule of shrews. Both mammals. Both managing to stay alive within whatever structure their bodies have. A couple of years ago I held a live juvenile shrew (not sure what kind exactly) that, tail excluded, was no bigger that 1 or 1.5 cm. Nature is truly miraculous.

Skylinehead

howyanow wrote: »

I don't think this is true.
You can go from drumshanbo to Carrick via Leitrim village and not leave the county!

Drumshanbo is on the south side of Lough Allen though, that's not the problem.

howyanow

Skylinehead wrote: »

Drumshanbo is on the south side of Lough Allen though, that's not the problem.

I understand better now.I thought you were saying drumshanbo was on the north edge of the county.what about ballinamore to Carrick via mohill?

Skylinehead

howyanow wrote: »

I understand better now.I thought you were saying drumshanbo was on the north edge of the county.what about ballinamore to Carrick via mohill?

Ballinamore is South Leitrim too.

howyanow

Skylinehead wrote: »

Ballinamore is South Leitrim too.

It's on the border with fermanagh so couldn't be in the south

Editing after googled map of Leitrim.surprised ballinamore not further north,it's more easterly!!learn something new everyday!

donegaLroad

some years ago, there used to exist a group of men known as the BBC (Ballinamore Bachelors Club). They wore t-shirts with the BBC log etc. and would appear now and again in popular stag party venues.

thee glitz

howyanow wrote: »

Skylinehead wrote: »

what about ballinamore to Carrick via mohill?

Well you wouldn't go that way anyway. Aside, Mohill is the Kilcock of Leitrim.

Capt'n Midnight

New Home wrote: »

Weighing over 400 lbs, this is heart of a Blue Whale. At a rate of 8 – 10 beats per minute the blue whale's heartbeat can be heard from over 2 miles away.

Whale meat again,
don't know where,
don't know when,
but I know whale meat again ...

Capt'n Midnight

howyanow wrote: »

It's on the border with fermanagh so couldn't be in the south

Editing after googled map of Leitrim.surprised ballinamore not further north,it's more easterly!!learn something new everyday!

Ballinamore was a tidy town back in 1983. :pac:

New Home

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Whale meat again,
don't know where,
don't know when,
but I know whale meat again ...

Sink me! The Capt'n's a poet!

david75

So if you want to weigh a whale at a whale weigh station,

Where do you weigh a pie?




(Sing it)
Somewhere over the rainbow, weigh a pie

Duckworth_Luas

Ipso wrote: »

.
William Allingham lived there, he wrote the following poem.

Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren’t go a-hunting
For fear of little men

Nobody ever goes in! Nobody ever comes out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLi-ellge1s