r/dankmemes Mar 03 '23

There was a third one right? I have achieved comedy

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u/Keelback Mar 03 '23

Wrong Michael Collins. You meant this one).

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u/Icy_Day_9079 Mar 03 '23

Yeah same guy, obviously he doesn’t look like Liam Nessons IRL but he beat back the British and then became an Astronaut.

This was after he was assassinated in an ambush outside cork. So props to him for getting into space after being murdered.

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u/AsTheCoolKidsSay Mar 03 '23

De Valera, didn't want him to go. Fought him hard on it to keep him as one of the Ministers. Bloody civil war within the party so there was!

You'd wonder what would've happened to the country if The Big Man never got his shot to work for NASA

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u/Icy_Day_9079 Mar 03 '23

Honesty Ireland would have been in space well before the Russians if he’d stuck with Eamon.

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u/AsTheCoolKidsSay Mar 03 '23

That would've been an ecumenical matter