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Famine Pots ? Brought in by the Quakers in 1847 ?
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Ncdjd2 wrote: Fri Sep 10, 2021 6:48 pm Famine Pots ? Brought in by the Quakers in 1847 ?
Full marks Ncd. Too easy!
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James Hoban, an architect from Kilkenny, built Belcamp house in 1785. ( Known locally as Belcamp College, next to Balgriffin on Dublin's Northside).

What famous big house in America did James Hobin also design a couple of years later ?
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The White House.
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Del.Monte wrote: Fri Sep 10, 2021 8:05 pm The White House.
Correct Del Monte.
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Ncdjd2 wrote: Fri Sep 10, 2021 8:07 pm Correct Del Monte.
But what Irish town did the man who burnt the White House come from? He is commemorated there by a massive monument.
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That I do not know.
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Do you give up? It's an east coast town, if that's any help.
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Del.Monte wrote: Fri Sep 10, 2021 8:29 pm Do you give up? It's an east coast town, if that's any help.
I give up but will be googling this after you give the answer ha.
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Ncdjd2 wrote: Fri Sep 10, 2021 8:32 pm I give up but will be googling this after you give the answer ha.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ro ... y_officer)

Rostrevor. The monument is like the Wellington one in the Phoenix Park.

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Photo from the excellent Robert O'Byrne Irish Aesthete blog; https://theirishaesthete.com/tag/ross-monument/
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Interesting character. Thanks for that. I stumbled on this in the notes - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-sco ... -1.4697058 ffs ha
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Here's another one from the same period in history. Where would you find a monument to a Canadian hero who saved his country from the Americans? It's a replacement for the original which was 'allegedly' blown up by a man whose family had emigrated from Wexford - a distant relation of mine and the family maintain that he was fitted up by the British. Is that too easy?
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Del.Monte wrote: Fri Sep 10, 2021 8:56 pm Here's another one from the same period in history. Where would you find a monument to a Canadian hero who saved his country from the Americans? It's a replacement for the original which was 'allegedly' blown up by a man whose family had emigrated from Wexford - a distant relation of mine and the family maintain that he was fitted up by the British. Is that too easy?
That one took me a bit of time to find WITH google, let alone being too easy!! 😂
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Well, what's the answer?
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Del.Monte wrote: Sat Sep 11, 2021 10:27 am Well, what's the answer?
I thought we weren't supposed to be using Google for getting the answers?

Anyway, 'LETT' us not split hairs over this, the monument i have seen photos of has some nice old COBH-ing on it....
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Very good but where is the monument?
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Del.Monte wrote: Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:32 am Very good but where is the monument?
I could be wrong, but if it's the one i was alluding to then its in Queenstown in Ontario, and is named Brocks Monument. The original was allegedly damaged by Benjamin Lett.
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silverbirch wrote: Fri Sep 10, 2021 6:31 pm Nice one Joe.
But is it a tunnel or a bridge?
It's a tunnel to be sure, short and all as it is. A bridge carries a road or some form of channel across or under a gap or other channel; eg a road or waterway or another railway whereas a tunnel goes under some manner of land or property or whatever.
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I’ve no idea who’s turn it is to put up a question, I know it’s not mine cos I cheated for Del Montes question
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Knucklehead6 wrote: Sat Sep 11, 2021 12:26 pm I could be wrong, but if it's the one i was alluding to then its in Queenstown in Ontario, and is named Brocks Monument. The original was allegedly damaged by Benjamin Lett.
Very good, your reference to Cobh was too cryptic for my feeble brain! Anyway, the 'wicked' Brits got my relation in the end and managed to have him jailed in the USA. When he was released he was mysteriously poisoned while on a trading expedition. His brother erected a monument on Benjamin Lett's grave lambasting the wicked Brits and their agents for the murder. The 11ft high monument (to right of photograph) is slightly more modest than that to General Brock.

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I'll throw up a quicky.
What was the capital of America before George Washington came along?
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Uncle Frank wrote: Sat Sep 11, 2021 10:15 pm I'll throw up a quicky.
What was the capital of America before George Washington came along?
I believe the capital (before formal recognition) floated around the States until finding its current home in DC. Hovering between New York and Philadelphia. Let's pluck for the latter.
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Philadelphia is right. Take it away there Bertie.
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What was the largest contiguous empire in history?
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Mongol?
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