Muses

Who Moved Ireland?

It’s 10 a.m. on a Tuesday. Do you know where Ireland is?

 

I’ve got a pretty good sense of direction.

If I’m sitting in a spot with a vague point of reference, I can easily point north, south, east or west. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Just did it.

I also absorb a lot of useless trivia — geographical tidbits included. So I clean up in Trivia Crack Geography.

 

Yet once every decade, I get thrown a terrestrial curve ball. A few years ago, it was Costa Rica.

Which I thought was an island floating somewhere in the Caribbean. BTW. I know that islands don’t float. That they are attached to the earth’s crust. Or at least I hope they are.

Costa Rica is not one of them. It’s in the Central American chain of countries. I learned that from a Facebook post from one of my son’s friends. A young woman who happened to be valedictorian of their high school class.

I bet she knows where Ireland migrated.

You see my son is over in England studying. So like a good mum, I pulled up a map to see where Manchester is in the United Kingdom. That’s when I saw this.

 

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Ireland spooning the western coast of England.

You can see the outline of how long, long ago in a galaxy far, far way Ireland nestled into Liverpool. How Dublin and Manchester must have smooched all cozy in their down English before-the-dawn-of-time bed.

Then there must have been some major lovers’ spat or Church battle or something.

Crazy. Ireland broke off and moved to the left side of the trundle.

Who knew?

Last time I checked Ireland was up here. Sitting there like a soccer ball ready to be eaten by the Scottish dragon.

 

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When did it get coughed up like a giant hairball/fireball and land way over here?

 

 

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Obviously, I need to get out more.

This was not intended to indict the Orange County School District circa 1970s.

So what’s the purpose of this post, other than to question my superior ranking in Trivia Crack Geography?

Well, my son is over there to the east of Ireland (rather than to the south of Ireland) and that makes me happy. That I know where he is.

And where all the Irish people are.

Where they have been for quite a while it seems.

Wonder if the dark side of the moon is really the   . . .???

Am I the only one that missed Ireland’s move?

 

           

           

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