The top ten major Irish contributions to the world

Old old old Dubnorth BTW without the mathematics of Rowan Hamilton there would be no space flights a true genius.

You forgot the most important invention. Copper wire, without which all electrical devices would not work, without which electricity could not be delivered to that outlet in the wall.. Copper wire was invented in Ireland.... It was two Cavan guys fighting over a penny.

Hamilton the gutter snipe deserves our silence and ignoring him will be an honour.

If you hate Irish people so much, why do you even bother to read a newsletter directed to an Irish audience?

Irish Inventions: Mental Reservation. This is credited to one Desmond Connell designated as a "Cardinal" by Vatican operations in Ireland. This involves the concept the a Roman cleric can lie about child rape but not be lying while not actually telling the truth. It may not go down as one of the greatest inventions of all time but they liked it in Rome.

Robert Mallet Protestant descendent of an English/Norman family. If you take the English Protestants out of Irish history you start to get very thin on achievements. That's unless you count colonising the world with child rapists for Rome as some sort of achievement. It's just gas that the Plastic Paddies rabidly defend a foreign Italian religion and then start getting all inclusive when it comes to claiming "Irish" contributions to the world.

BILLEO61; One of your sad and sorry lot has to dash dirty toilet water on every story that can throw more dirt at the Catholic Church. You will never be out of a job as Dirt Digger because it was founded on weak, flawed humans who were forgiven- as you were - so give it over and that is how its Founder designed it. Chase leprechauns, or unicorns or a perfect Church, which, as the saying goes "will no longer be perfect if you join it.!

The Irish people don't give a sh*t what we contribute to the world.We are as we are.My only regret is we are a small country and we couldn't kill enough of our enemies...I respect the British and the American's for that...Both countries have killed a great many people and everyone is about to pay the price..Just shut the fu*k up ye stupid people.I

John P. Holland's efforts to launch the submarine were largerly funded bt the Fenians in the U.S. (many of whom were Civil War veterans). The first submarine successfully launched was the Fenian Ram. M.I.T. grad. (1928) John Stack deserves mention in the above list. The son of North Cork and West Limerick parents, Stack an expert in high speed aeordynamics, played a major role in developing the X-1, the plane in which Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947. Stack and Yeager were jointly presented the Collier Trophy in 1948 by President Harry Truman. Stack was buried in an Episcopal cemetery, but his Lowell birth and Protestand connections do not make his DNA any less Irish.

Eamonn morons like Hamilton do not deserve a reply.BTW let us not forget Robert Mallet the father of seismology(he also coined the word seismology) a Dublin man-- religion irrelevant.

Yes Nicoletta, the catholic faith, that has physical/sexual abuse of children, abuse of women, Babies sold to the highest bidders abroad. Me thinks not one of our claims to fame in the right way.

The submarine claim to fame has been corrected previously but with no effect. The Confederate States of America built a submarine named the Hunley. It sank a Union ship before it sunk. Last I heard, it is going through restoration efforts.

Agree with Phearne.

"Will Hamilton" - Good man yerself, Sor!! As you say, "800 years" - and you sound as though you've been around for all of that time. Shure aren't you the wonderful man yerself, Sor!! No flies on you! Well, perhaps a few around the back ...........? Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.

The greatest contribution to the world from Ireland has been the spreading of the one, holy, apostolic and Catholic faith. Those parts of the world which were once evangelized by the Irish, will be the source of the re-evangelisation of Ireland. Deo Gratias!