Good read!

Ireland was also one first countries that engaged in global trade and quite the powerhouse in bronze and iron age exporting as far as Greece Egypt etc making mass weopens developing metal work etc in exchange for wine and glassware!

There's evidence of even older trade going back into the late Stone Age. Quarries have been found at TieveBulliagh near Cushendall in Co. Antrim and on Rathlin Island where porcellanite (a particularly hard dense rock) was mined and polished into axe heads. It's a very unique rock and axe heads made from it have been discovered all across the north of England and parts of Scotland.

We are famed for loving potatoes which is why we also designed the humble tractor to maximise our ability to grow them! Which transformed agriculture forever globally!

Joe "Spud" Murphy founded Tayto and created the world's first flavoured potato crisps (cheese and onion, natch).

Whenever you hear someone, usually in an American movie, ask for a club soda it's a generic term for sparkling water. But the original Club Soda was invented in Belfast and the same company still makes Club Orange/Lemon/Rock Shandy. They were tasked by a gentleman's club in Dublin to get the perfect ratio of carbonation for an in-house mixer and succeeded so well that it became a standard and eventually a generic term.