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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭Zachary Taylor


    Ok but Henry XIII didn't have three wives called Cat. Accuracy is important, if only because it avoids posts like ours. Who has a question?


    I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line you do not, uh--


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    I've a question:

    Who is/was Henry the Thirteenth? I've never heard of him.

    Was he anything to Henry the Eighth of England who DID have three wives called Catherine?

    Here's another:

    Two of the seven signatories to the 1916 proclamation of Independence were born outside Ireland. Which two and where?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    Just goes to show how appalling my Irish History really is when I ask was one Eamonn De Valera? And in which case he was born in the USA, right? The other, I don't know but as for nationality, I'd say a safe bet is English?


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    Well Dev obviously in the USA, but the other one. hmm, I'd take a guess at Kent and england since thats an english name :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Wrong and wrong, I'm afraid.

    Dev wasn't a signatory (they were all shot, remember) and Kent was Irish born.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    Lets see.

    Clarke
    Mac Diarmada [must be irish born]
    MacDonagh [must be irish born]
    Pearse [Born un Dublin]
    Ceannt [must be irish born]
    Connolly [I'd gues hes Irish since he was the commandant general of dublin]
    Plunkett

    So lest go with Clarke and Plunett :) Both from England :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Half right. Thomas Clarke was born in the Isle of Wight.

    Plunkett was Irish born.

    Actually, I would have thought Clarke was the harder of the two to get.


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    I dont know, process of elimation :)

    Anyway, a question, [took 5 minutes to think up],

    Who was the Unionist who defeated Oscar Wilde in a libel case, which resulted in Oscar going to jail for 2 years?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Originally posted by PHB
    I dont know, process of elimation :)

    Anyway, a question, [took 5 minutes to think up],

    Who was the Unionist who defeated Oscar Wilde in a libel case, which resulted in Oscar going to jail for 2 years?

    Edward Carson, but you haven't fully answered the last question.


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    :o, so I havn't.

    Havn't a clue tbh, It must be one of these 3
    Mac Diarmada
    MacDonagh
    Connolly

    I could keep guessing :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 551 ✭✭✭funktastic


    Marquess of Queensbury?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 551 ✭✭✭funktastic


    Only read that properly now! Ignore that


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Originally posted by PHB
    :o, so I havn't.

    Havn't a clue tbh, It must be one of these 3
    Mac Diarmada
    MacDonagh
    Connolly

    I could keep guessing :)

    Well you've narrowed it down. It's been up for 16 hours. At what point do I print the right answer, though I suspect that anyone who really wants to know will have googled it by now.?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    And if they haven't, the answers are:

    Thomas Clarke, born Isle of Wight, raised variously in Ireland, Britain and the USA.

    and

    James Connolly, born in Scotland. Didn't come to Ireland until he was posted here during his time in the British Army. Apparently had a thick Scottish accent until the day he died.


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    Lets think of a new question :)
    Hmm,
    What was the name for the funky system of politics that went on in Italy between 1870-1914?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭Zachary Taylor


    transformismo?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 958 ✭✭✭Mark


    Since PHB seems to be aweh, I may as well tell j0o you're right Zachary.

    Take yer question


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭Zachary Taylor


    In 1871, following the Franco-Prussian War, the French people returned a monarchist majority in a general election, but the leader of the Bourbons, the Compte de Chombarde, ruined his and their chances by making an extremely unpopular, but remarkably insightful suggestion. What was his suggestion?

    Supplementary Question: Who was Zachary Taylor?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Originally posted by Zachary Taylor
    In 1871, following the Franco-Prussian War, the French people returned a monarchist majority in a general election, but the leader of the Bourbons, the Compte de Chombarde, ruined his and their chances by making an extremely unpopular, but remarkably insightful suggestion. What was his suggestion?

    Supplementary Question: Who was Zachary Taylor?

    Zachary Taylor was a nineteenth Century American General and later president of the US. Did he die in office after a relatively brief reign?

    As to the Compte de Chombrade - haven't a clue.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭Zachary Taylor


    You're right about Zachary Taylor. He died on July 9th 1850 of pneumonia. It is thought that he ate too much watermellon at an Independence Day celebration five days earlier.

    The Compte de Chombarde question is pretty tough. Take a question if you like.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Patrick Maurice McMahon became president of which country in the 1870s?


  • Registered Users Posts: 78,218 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Originally posted by Hairy Homer
    Patrick Maurice McMahon became president of which country in the 1870s?
    Eh, is this the French guy - Patrice Maurice de McMahon (1808 - 1893). But was he president or prime minister?


  • Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭spaczed


    ok, i'm not trying to jump into the thread here, but just as an aside:

    did the count de chamborde say that he would only take power if he could change back from the republican tricolour to his ancenstral royal flag?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Originally posted by Victor
    Eh, is this the French guy - Patrice Maurice de McMahon (1808 - 1893). But was he president or prime minister?

    Google verifies that he was indeed president.


  • Registered Users Posts: 46 Byzantine


    Alexander 2,3,ivan 4,peter 2......ah ah ...alexei???


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Well, Ol' Rough 'n Ready doesn't seem to be answering the question about the Comte de Wotsit, so Victor should be giving us another question soon for knowing all about President Mac Mah Hong (as the French pronounce it)

    Hit it, Victor.


  • Registered Users Posts: 78,218 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    OK, another railway question. When were the main railway stations in Irish cities renamed after 1916 personalities? (Connolly, Heuston, Kent, etc.)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    This is a guess. Was it on the golden jubilee of the rising, in 1966?


  • Registered Users Posts: 78,218 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Originally posted by Hairy Homer
    This is a guess. Was it on the golden jubilee of the rising, in 1966?
    Correct.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 46 Byzantine


    What was the name of the Grand master of the Knights Hospitalers when the turks invaded malta in 1565?
    (hint.......capital)


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