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This has something to do with Irish whiskey.

• analognoise 1y ago
  On the Wikipedia page for Irish inventions, there’s nothing listed for 300 years after the invention of whiskey. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Irish_inventions_and_discoveries https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Irish_inventions...
  • Macha 1y ago
    People were a little preoccupied in the following centuries: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_laws_(Ireland) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_laws_(Ireland) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell
  • rfl890 1y ago
    For 300 years, they were running around too fucking hammered to invent anything!
    • pavel_lishin 1y ago
      My understanding is that for 300 years, they were being too busy being hammered by the Brits.
  • pavel_lishin 1y ago
    As I recall, other things were happening in Ireland at the time that were perhaps more relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poynings%27_Law_(on_certification_of_acts) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poynings%27_Law_(on_certificat...