[HN Gopher] A history of Ireland in 100 goodbyes
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       A history of Ireland in 100 goodbyes
        
       Author : Thevet
       Score  : 48 points
       Date   : 2023-10-09 22:42 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.irishtimes.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.irishtimes.com)
        
       | osullish wrote:
       | I love that Roy Keane has 5% of these entries. Saipan was nearly
       | the beginning of a civil war in this country!
        
       | anotherhue wrote:
       | Some of these hit hard but I cannot possibly imagine anyone not
       | soaked in Irish culture getting many of them.
       | 
       | > Yerra, they'll never shoot me in my own county
        
         | dmbche wrote:
         | Famous last words of this Irish-American Astronaut
         | 
         | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(astronaut)
        
           | croisillon wrote:
           | TIL! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(Irish_lea
           | der)...
        
           | Amineh wrote:
           | I think you linked the wrong Michael Collins:
           | 
           | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(Irish_leade.
           | ..
        
             | rbanffy wrote:
             | That was the joke part.
        
           | anotherhue wrote:
           | Those Spas Feiners had no honour.
        
       | vonzepp wrote:
       | Lovely idea of a list. But not definitive. My village song also
       | talks of leaving in the morning. Leaving Ireland was the natural
       | state for 150 years.
        
       | mtalantikite wrote:
       | > 4 Caoineadh Airt Ui Laoghaire
       | 
       | I really enjoyed Doireann Ni Ghriofa's book that revolves around
       | this keen, for anyone interested:
       | https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/51498568
        
         | nathell wrote:
         | Context:
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caoineadh_Airt_U%C3%AD_Laoghai...
         | 
         | I got interested in Irish having listened to Clannad in high
         | school; at the uni library, I got hold of an Irish textbook,
         | along with a bilingual anthology of Irish poetry ('An Duanaire:
         | Poems of the Dispossessed', edited by Sean O Tuama) where the
         | Caoineadh featured prominently.
        
           | mjfl wrote:
           | Any chance that Irish writing could be re-phoneticized? I
           | tried learning Irish for fun but it was tough because all the
           | letters sounded in a really unexpected way. (I also think
           | that English should be re-phoneticized for what it's worth)
        
             | nathell wrote:
             | Manx orthography has gone that way. Try it out!
        
             | rbanffy wrote:
             | I gather they won their independence in no small part due
             | to infuriating the invaders with phoneticisation.
             | 
             | I live in Ireland and was onde fluent in Hungarian. I laugh
             | at anyone who says Hungarian is the hardest language to
             | learn. They obviously never saw Irish.
        
         | imnotdang wrote:
         | [flagged]
        
       | jwmcq wrote:
       | I am disappointed that the "Irish goodbye" didn't happen at
       | around number 82 with no items following it.
        
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