Interesting Facts About Ireland
Early 1900's

Interesting facts about Ireland are all over the internet. The problem is that the distinction between the facts and the fiction is becoming ever less distinct.Irish myth and Irish facts seem to be merging.

Check out these interesting facts about Ireland and what was happening at the beginning of the last century and see how many of them you aleady knew.

1901 A census of the population of Ireland states it to be 4,459,00

1902 Archbishop Croke, after whom Croke Park is named dies at the age of 78.

1903 St.Patrick's day becomes a national holiday in Ireland.

1904 The world famous Abbey Theatre in Dublin is founded.

1905 Arthur Griffith founded Sinn Fein in this year.

1906 Renowned tenor Count John McCormack made his debut in Italy in 1906.McCormack was from Athlone, County Westmeath.

1907 Playwright Synge's "Playboy of the Western World" causes massive controversy when staged at the Abbey theatre.

1900 James Larkin founds the Irish Transport and General Workers Union.

1911 The Titanic is launched on 31st of May.The ill-fated Titanic was built in the Harland and Wolff Shipyard in Belfast.It sinks in 1912

1913 The Great Dublin Lock Out begins.

1916 The Easter Rising occurs.

1917 Eamonn De Valera, New York born, is elected president of Sinn Fein.

1919 January 21st sees the first meeting of Dail Eireann, the irish legislative body.

1919 The War of Independance starts.

1920 Bloody Sunday.

Should be enough interesting facts there for that period although obviously not too many fun facts.

Interesting facts about Ireland, the scientists

aware that an Irish born scientist won a Nobel Prize for Physics

in 1951 along with John Cockcroft. What these two scientists had

achieved was not only the conversion of one element into another

by artificial means but also they were able to verify Einstein's

famous equation.

The "Father of modern chemistry", he of "Boyle's Law" fame Robert Boyle was in fact an Irish man.

The originator of the famous Beaufort Scale which classifies thevelocity and force of winds at sea,Francis Beaufort was a Meathman.

The inventor of the modern submarine John Phillip Holland was in fact a Clareman, Liscannor to be exact.

Her is a very interesting fact, many people will be aware of the

world famous agricultural machinery manufacturers Massey

Ferguson, but were you aware of the fact that the ferguson part

of that famous name belonged to Harry Ferguson a native of County Down.

Another fact about Ferguson was that in 1938 Ferguson sold a

tractor design to Henry Ford and by 1947, 300,000 Ford Ferguson

tractors had been sold. The relationship ended on a sour note and

Ferguson eventually merged with Canadian manufacturers Massey - Harris. Hence Massey-Ferguson.

Those into computer games development ,flight simulators and such

like will know that quaternion is a mathematical expression

which is fundamental to the to the development of these

programmes e.g. Tomb Raider. Whilst Tomb Raider is obviously

famous the originator of the Quaternion is certainly a lot less

famous, so here's a mention for Irishman, William Rowan Hamilton.

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