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Name a random year and what you remember it by.

  • 01-08-2020 10:05pm
    #1
    Munstergirl854
    Registered Users Posts: 260 ✭✭


    2020 will now go down in the annals of time as the Covid year. It will be defined and remembered by this pandemic.

    What is the first thing that comes to your mind for specific years gone by...

    For example...2002-Ireland's currency change to euro.


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  • #2
    JasonStatham
    Closed Accounts Posts: 548 ✭✭✭JasonStatham


    2008 the credit crunch.

    I think covid will go on till 2021


  • #3
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,802 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    I’ll be greedy, with two,

    1998 - I lived and worked for a time in Paris, had a blast.


    2016 - I became very ill, spent 8 months in hospital.


  • #4
    Pauliedragon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    1990. 10 years old and Italia 90.My love affair with sport started then.


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    2002 waterford winning 1st munster championship in 39 years


  • #6
    cute geoge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,016 ✭✭✭cute geoge


    1995 best summer ever great memories of it with my cous and best friend who died tragically at the end of it


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  • #7
    Jimbob1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    1995 - Leaving Certificate and a boiling hot summer with drought conditions.


  • #8
    global23214124
    Registered Users Posts: 279 ✭✭global23214124


    2013 Clare winning the all ireland after a replay against Cork


  • #9
    nullzero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,426 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    2001 = 9/11

    Glazers Out!



  • #10
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,839 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    I was sorry every after, 74 - 75


  • #11
    global23214124
    Registered Users Posts: 279 ✭✭global23214124


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    2002 waterford winning 1st munster championship in 39 years

    Gutted that team didn't win an all Ireland with the talent they had.


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  • #12
    McGinniesta
    Registered Users Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    1992 - Got wanked off on holiday


  • #13
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    1979 Skylab falling, was 10, seemed cool


  • #14
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    cute geoge wrote: »
    1995 best summer ever great memories of it with my cous and best friend who died tragically at the end of it

    No water in the taps, entire area was washing in the lake,


  • #15
    Signore Fancy Pants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,687 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    1856 I remember I wasnt alive.


  • #16
    Kylta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    1965, remember getting torn from the womb. Then I forgot everthing till I awoke this very morning. But now I know about the world and covid-19, I want to get back into somebodys womb and self isolated


  • #17
    quodec
    Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭quodec


    1976 - the summer. Weeks of warm sunshine.


  • #18
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,550 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    1982 and loads of snow.drifts 8" deep!


  • #19
    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,968 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    1014 Battle of Clontarf
    1492 Columbus discovered America
    1607 Flight of the Earls
    1690 Battle of the Boyne
    1798 Wexford rebellion
    1803 Emmett rebellion
    1867 Fenian rebellion
    1916 Easter rebellion
    1919-1921 War of Independence
    1948 Ireland declare a republic
    1977 Jack Lynch and FF win election and proceed to keep there promises and break the country Financially
    1998 BBBBBertie Ahern and FF win the election and the next two as well and again proceed to pursue policies that bankrupt the country again

    Slava Ukrainii



  • #20
    RMAOK
    Registered Users Posts: 11,223 ✭✭✭✭RMAOK


    2017 - Galway finally winning the All-ireland hurling title after 29 years.


  • #21
    Username here
    Registered Users Posts: 1,044 ✭✭✭Username here


    2003 - my mam died suddenly. Everything is either before or after that now.


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  • #22
    alchemist33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    1985 - moving statues and apparitions


  • #23
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,508 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Summer 1999 - Junior cert, getting served in rural country pubs, irish students in the gaeltacht, scooter and other assorted eurodance, aftershocks, millenium bug and that stupid clock in the liffey


  • #24
    storker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,688 ✭✭✭storker


    1973 - Yom Kippur war. The first new story I can remember seeing on RTE.


  • #25
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,409 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    1988 , Yazz , the only way is up .
    Also the girlfriend of the time had a fine set of freighters ,for the life of me I cant remember her name.


  • #26
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,089 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    2001, when they found that monoilith on the Moon, and the spaceship computer went mad and killed all those astronauts near Jupiter.


  • #27
    Captain Havoc
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 11,393 Mod ✭✭✭✭Captain Havoc


    2002, I was living in Paris and Saipan/ World Cup.

    https://ormondelanguagetours.com

    Walking Tours of Kilkenny in English, French or German.



  • #28
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    I know it may sound random but anytime I think of 2004 I instantly think about October/November 2004. Which is the greatest month in video gaming history.
    All these were released:

    - halo 2
    - half life 2
    - mgs3
    - gta Andreas.
    - jak 3
    - nintendo ds


  • #29
    4Ad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭4Ad


    June '90.
    Met a cute girl.
    The Soccer
    The craic
    The hippy nites in The Burren.
    Cider.....


  • #30
    r93kaey5p2izun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭r93kaey5p2izun


    1989 Berlin Wall "falling". I have so many strong childhood memories about this. I was fascinated. I had become weirdly interested in the whole situation through watching Night Crossing. Then seeing it all play out on TV was just incredible. But a lot of the memories I connect it with are very ordinary everyday ones, like what I was eating when it was on TV, and what my mam was wearing.


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  • #31
    JasonStatham
    Closed Accounts Posts: 548 ✭✭✭JasonStatham


    Bass Reeves wrote: »
    1014 Battle of Clontarf
    1492 Columbus discovered America
    1607 Flight of the Earls
    1690 Battle of the Boyne
    1798 Wexford rebellion
    1803 Emmett rebellion
    1867 Fenian rebellion
    1916 Easter rebellion
    1919-1921 War of Independence
    1948 Ireland declare a republic
    1977 Jack Lynch and FF win election and proceed to keep there promises and break the country Financially
    1998 BBBBBertie Ahern and FF win the election and the next two as well and again proceed to pursue policies that bankrupt the country again

    You were there at the Battle of Clontarf, were ye


  • #32
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,501 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    1996. Wexford won the All-Ireland. Literally a point of reference for everyone I know from the county.

    'And we dancing at the crossroads....'


  • #33
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,480 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    1111 - Synod of Bishops.

    Because it's an easy date to remember.


  • #34
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    2001 - Hasim Rahman knocked out Lennox Lewis.


  • #35
    Randle P. McMurphy
    Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭Randle P. McMurphy


    1963 - Seeing my granny cry as we watched news coverage of the JFK assassination. She revered him like a Saint. She once told me he went to confession every morning. Little did she know :pac:


  • #36
    GeorgeSmt
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭GeorgeSmt


    2006 - amazing football world cup


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  • #37
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,681 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    The summer of 2012... when life turned upside down.


  • #38
    soap1978
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 723 ✭✭✭soap1978


    1999 the year man utd won the treple


  • #39
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    Jimbob1977 wrote: »
    1995 - Leaving Certificate and a boiling hot summer with drought conditions.

    I remember going into work one morning in the summer of '95, it was around 8.30 AM and it was 32c in Dublin .... mad .... great summer ... I was 17 and got drunk for the first time :)


  • #40
    ShatterAlan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭ShatterAlan


    1990


    Got my first blow job


    (Thanks Alison)


  • #41
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,258 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    I know it may sound random but anytime I think of 2004 I instantly think about October/November 2004. Which is the greatest month in video gaming history.
    All these were released:

    - halo 2
    - half life 2
    - mgs3
    - gta Andreas.
    - jak 3
    - nintendo ds

    Still has nothing on 1997! :D


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  • #42
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,264 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    1979. Saw Abba in concert.


  • #43
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,681 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    spurious wrote: »
    1979. Saw Abba in concert.

    Mamma Mia !






    ...I'll get my coat


  • #44
    Schwiiing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,704 ✭✭✭Schwiiing


    2005. Her name was Karina.


  • #45
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,669 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Summer 1990 for me, was doing the Inter Cert but none of us gave a fook about that the whole country was caught up in World Cup fever.


  • #46
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,031 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Late 1991: I’d just moved to Earl’s Court in London, found out that Freddie Mercury lived nearby, and then he died shortly afterwards. The area was mobbed by Queen fans.

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • #47
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,648 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    2009

    Met my current partner
    The Great Flood
    Bitterly cold and icy winter


  • #48
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 77,534 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    1999 and a day in Barcelona


  • #49
    Plasandrunt
    Registered Users Posts: 858 ✭✭✭Plasandrunt


    2005, The greatest victory in Istanbul late in May


  • #50
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,011 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    2001 = 3/11. Ever wonder why that wasn't investigated


  • #51
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,147 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    1995 - Scorching hot summer, good music.

    2009 - post crash, myself and the missus out of work and wondering if we'd be able to keep the house (we did).


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