Chancer3001 wrote: » W.B Yeats' younger brother Jack won Ireland's first Olympic medal (Ireland as a free state) He won us an Olympic medal.....for painting .
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » Maybe I'm reading it incorrectly but he didn't say it was a grand slam title, just that it was formerly a big enough tournament that Rod Laver played in it and won it in the year that he also won the grand slam in 1962. Which he did again in 1969, grand Slam plus Irish open?
Deleted User wrote: » The second oldest tennis tournament in the world, after Wimbledon, is the Irish Open. It was considered pretty much the biggest tournament after Wimbledon before WWI, and was the first to feature men and women singles and doubles. As recently as 1962 it was big enough to draw the superstars when it was won by Rod Laver in the year he won all 4 grand slam tournaments...a feat no other tennis player has since achieved (although he did it again in 1969).
Realt Dearg Sec wrote: » Well the Irish Open was never a Grand Slam title. Conor was saying Laver won all four Grand Slams that year and no other player has ever done it since (and he happened also to be in the Irish open that year). Then mzungu pointed out he is not the last player to do, Graf was. laver was presumably the last man to do it.
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » But she didn't win the Irish Open that year as well which was the point, I think?
mzungu wrote: » Not quite, Steffi Graf won all four in 1988.
fred funk }{ wrote: » In 1941 there were only 11 democracies in the world. Ireland was one of them.
Greybottle wrote: » But we weren't technically a fully independent state.
Greybottle wrote: » 5% of all milk produced in the Republic of Ireland goes to making Baileys. A bottle of Baileys is sold every 0.125 seconds worldwide, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. That's over a quarter of a billion bottles a year. In the time it took you to read this, over 100 bottles of the sickly sweet liquer have been filled and sold.
Candie wrote: » How interesting! I wonder if the saying 'She'd look good in a sack!" is related to this - I suspect so. That last dress is beautiful.
Duckworth_Luas wrote: » Everyone knows that the best thing since sliced bread is in fact sliced bread. However, before this households made there own bread, with flour that came in cotton sacks. In the USA, during the Great Depression, creative mothers began to make use of this resource to make clothes for their children. The results were adequate, but when the flour suppliers realised what was happening they reinvented they way they supplied their product. They began to pack their flour in cotton bags designed with bright, colourful patterns, which made for much more attractive clothing. The branding and company logos on the bags were made of washable ink that was removed by soaking them in hot water. Sometimes the sacks included designs for children's toys, such as dolls and Teddy bears They were even made into clothing for adults as well. In fact it, after the Great Depression, up until at least the 1960s, there were competitions as to who could make the most fashionable dress out of flour bags. This one is in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
Duckworth_Luas wrote: » Everyone knows that the best thing since sliced bread is in fact sliced bread. However, before this households made there own bread, with flour that came in cotton sacks. In the USA, during the Great Depression, creative mothers began to make use of this resource to make clothes for their children. The results were adequate, but when the flour suppliers realised what was happening they reinvented they way they supplied their product. They began to pack their flour in cotton bags designed with bright, colourful patterns, which made for much more attractive clothing. The branding and company logos on the bags were made of washable ink that was removed by soaking them in hot water. Sometimes the sacks included designs for children's toys, such as dolls and Teddy bears. They were even made into clothing for adults as well. In fact it, after the Great Depression, up until at least the 1960s, there were competitions as to who could make the most fashionable dress out of flour bags. This one is in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
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