‘Incredible hulk’ mystery of tallest ever Irishman solved

(More bore...) So again, I ask, where do I, and yez all of Irish heritage, tall or small or in between, apply for a Certificate of African Heritage? Would I apply to a man cartoonly called Charlie Brown or life-like skeletal Genie Byrne, in the discreet Embassy of Cantburndebridgesandbranches?

(Oh yes, more from below!) I have posted elsewhere on ICentral for information as to where I might apply for a Certificate of African Ancestry. No replies so far, mo bhrón! But did you know there are men and women of African tribes of extraordinary height – no, not in this case, the pygmy ones – the ones who are extraordinarily tall like Charlie Brown was? You find them in East Africa and West Africa, especially near the Efelants Coast (to be deliberately slightly confused with the Ivy Coast (sic)). Did anybody notice what I noticed on recent international TV news shots? The hugely tall, less meat-on-a-butcher’s pencil-thin (lovely phrase antoman! tks) Security Guards in the background with that stupid man (what’s his name again? Ex-President Grababag ’ngo? - I might have mispeeled there), a President who thinks he can pimp off his country’s people (they should say “No Way anymore” – actually, it’s been said they democratically told him so, but like other psycho pimps, he ignores his own people for his own selfish benefit, a trait that leads to death.) Yes, the security guys looked huge in height. I think our Irish Charlie Brown was genealogically descended from those Security Guards' peoples. (Bore more...)

Yes, this a great interesting story, especially the science and genealogy aspects. Pity that Patrick Cooper didn’t add a bit more pathos, as the NEJ reported, that this giant of a man died at 22 yrs of age.... I follow news and developments in the Sciences from time to time and have learned greatly; I garnered that the pituitary gland affects growth, or lack of it, quite a lot or a bit, depending on how you see things, whether you’re looking up or down. Could Charles Byrne have been a snobbish person looking down, who died from snobbishness and not pituitary glands or pity glares? Or, gosh! - could he have died from fear of heights??? (From my garnered knowledge of Science, for the unknowledgeable readers, fear of heights is called virtuosity). I am quite virtuous; I admit I have a fear of heights, even as an average sized Irishman. No Charlie Brown, sorry, no Charlie Byrne, is me. (More...)

amazing story

Poor diet, really? Thanx for clearing that up for us.

I've seen more meat on a butchers pencil.Back then peasents were five foot nothing and that was primarily because of their poor diet.