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A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, economic uncertainty and the popularity of Sinn Féin all have a familiar feel about them.
In fact, we’ve been here before. A century ago, Eamonn De Valera’s party was the most popular in the country when the Spanish Flu outbreak struck, while the end of the decade was also marked by history’s worst economic crisis.
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Did Baird invent a colour tv at that stage? I thought colour was a later invention.
@Connoroconner: yes he did.
@Connoroconner: colour came in the 60s
@David cotter: he invented the colour tv however colour was always around
@Connoroconner: he did invent the television.
Colour was being experimented on in film. But the first colour film that actually went into production was The Wizard Oz (correct me if I’m wrong( so I do not think they was a need for colour television transmission. If it was even possible back then.
But a television is a visual transmitter. And
@Paul O’Sullivan: actually James Doherty is right, I checked. Baird did actually demonstrate a colour tv in the 20′s.
Ireland was partitioned 3rd of May 1921
@Kevin50: technically I think it was done under the government of Ireland act in1920
@Kevin50: that’s what I thought too
@Sinead Fleming: I don’t think it took effect until 1921.
@Kevin50: was it not portioned by the Parliament of Ireland Act 1920?
Sweet f.a it turns out.
@Trish O’Leary-Dunne:
@Trish O’Leary-Dunne:
@Seomra Ban: yes?
5 not bad
4/10 worse yet
8/10 and I should have got the partition one right.
@James Walsh: well if you put 1921 you were correct, the act began in 1920 but Ireland wasn’t par
@James Walsh: well if you put 1921 you were correct, the act began in 1920 but Ireland wasn’t partitioned until 03rd of May 1921.
Lord Kelvin claimed that TV would never succeed. But then he also claimed that another Irishman’s stratagem, rockets, wouldn’t work (in space) either.He was Britain’s most eminent scientist, so I guess we can all get it wrong, sometimes.
5/10 with three stupid mistakes!
@HuffnPuff: Not to mention the other two.
10 out of 10
Not bad .
5-10. No sap squelch
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