[analognoise]

On the Wikipedia page for Irish inventions, there’s nothing listed for 300 years after the invention of whiskey.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Irish_inventions...

[Macha]

People were a little preoccupied in the following centuries:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_laws_(Ireland)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell

[pavel_lishin]

As I recall, other things were happening in Ireland at the time that were perhaps more relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poynings%27_Law_(on_certificat...

[rfl890]

For 300 years, they were running around too fucking hammered to invent anything!

[pavel_lishin]

My understanding is that for 300 years, they were being too busy being hammered by the Brits.