User talk:Md232

Hi all,

I'm afraid I've jumped right in within going through the tutorials (yet) as I'm tired from a hard evening at the wafer fab (Seagate Technology Ire Ltd) this Christmas Eve. And a hot half seemed more appropriate. I'm so tired I'd forgotten Hamilton's name - the genius Irish mathematician - so I Goggled "famous Irish mathematician" and landed in a Wikipedia Irish project page where nothing of any immediate consequence to me was listed.

I love and respect Wikipedia but this Irish project section seems weak and frivolous. I'm concerned that our most vocal citizens either don't know or don't value the incredible contributions to math, science, and technology, not to mention literature, of our small nation.

I'm a poor candidate to put that to rights but I'm a digger and thorough and love math and science. Great books have yet to be written (to my knowledge) about men like Hamilton and Robert Boyle (Chemistry - the gas laws), or even about historical figures (rebels or hold-outs) like O'Doherty. And what ever became of the Earls after their flight? Did you know that less than £200 was the entire fortune of one lost over a cliff in Italy I believe.

I don't write or make movies but here lie some begging a long time to be made or written. Braveheart should have clued someone up. Now that I'm getting old and it's a brand new year dawning I'd like to help put something on the map for Irish nerds like me. But I will, of course have to learn the methodology and reference what I know or think I know.

By the way, all of our history tells us that Brian Boru defeated the Vikings in Ireland. But where did he get the notion that the "foreigners" could be beaten. Dun Na Gall (Donegal), or fort of the foreigner is your clue.

regards, Michael (Mickey D)