IRISH GHOST > STORY > > This story happened a while ago in Dublin , and even though it sounds > like an Alfred Hitchcock tale, it's true. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > John Bradford, a Dublin University student, was on the side of the road hitchhiking on a very dark night and in the midst of a big storm. > > The night was rolling on and no car went by. The storm was so strong he could hardly see a few feet ahead of him. > > Suddenly, he saw a car slowly coming towards him and stopped. > > John, desperate for shelter and without thinking about it, got into the car and closed the door...only to realize there was nobody behind the wheel and the engine wasn't on. > > The car started moving. > John looked at the road ahead and saw a curve approaching. > Scared, he started to pray, begging for his life. > > Then, just before the car hit the curve, a hand appeared out of nowhere through the window, and turned the wheel. John, paralyzed with terror, > watched as the hand came through the window, but never touched or harmed him. > > Shortly thereafter, John saw the lights of a pub appear down the road, so, gathering strength; he jumped out of the car and ran to it. Wet and out of breath, he rushed inside and started telling everybody about the horrible experience he had just had. > > A silence enveloped the pub when everybody realized he was crying...and wasn't drunk. > > > Suddenly, the door opened, and two other people walked in from the dark and stormy night. They, like John, were also soaked and out of breath. Looking around, and seeing John Bradford sobbing at the bar, one said to the other: > > > "Look Paddy...there's that fooking idiot that got in the car while we were pushing it!"
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The 1916 Easter Rebellion...documentary. If you're interested in Irish History. http://1916.nd.edu/1916-the-irish-rebellion/
Well I'm half Lithuanian and half British with no Irish at all in me but I did marry a Scotts/Irish bride so I drank a few hits of Canadian whiskey tonight to say "Happy St Patrick's Day" to you low life's who are like family to me, enjoy.
Scotch-Irish.....not really Irish!! Scotland and England became unified under a single monarch with the Union of the Crowns in 1603, when James VI, King of Scots, succeeded Elizabeth I as ruler of England. In addition to the unstable border region, James also inherited Elizabeth's conflicts in Ireland. Following the end of the Irish Nine Years' War in 1603, and the Flight of the Earls in 1607, James embarked in 1609 on a systematic plantation of English and Scottish Protestant settlers to Ireland's northern province of Ulster.[27] The Plantation of Ulster was seen as a way to relocate the Border Reiver families to Ireland to bring peace to the Anglo-Scottish border country, and also to provide fighting men who could suppress the native Irish in Ireland.[28]
LOL, that's okay she doesn't claim the Irish part of her family either...She doesn't drink alcohol and is like a clam with the money, sounds Scotts to me..
Terry it wasn't said but I am appreciating the history side of your post, since I'm half English it best describes the bastard in me according to some folks..Its recessive but shows its colors every now and then...
Very interesting history of those times. Jacobites look them up.... and lord the Scots hated the English back in those days and the English considered the Scots as sub human like the Irish.
Agreed as the English considered everyone subhuman in those days, hard to consider in this era but the truth no doubt...The Brits were a royal pain in the ass but a worthy advisory pain in the ass according to all counts.. Meanwhile us American Lithuanians (My other half) (I'm going to make that term an everyday phrase) say drink for today as yesterday is gone and we may not be here tomorrow...