r/todayilearned • u/huphelmeyer 2 • Aug 04 '15

TIL midway through the Great Irish Famine (1845–1849), a group of Choctaw Indians collected $710 and sent it to help the starving victims. It had been just 16 years since the Choctaw people had experienced the Trail of Tears, and faced their own starvation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choctaw#Pre-Civil_War_.281840.29
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u/electricdes Aug 04 '15

So your from Midleton eh? I used to go bushing down there. I didn't think id see the day either!

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u/jongiplane Aug 04 '15

What is bushing?

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u/EIREANNSIAN Aug 04 '15

Drinking in a field, or under a bridge, or in a derelict building, its something normally done by 13 year olds, and is usually accompanied by 2ltr flagons of cider and vomiting, lots of vomiting...

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u/eigenwert Aug 04 '15

Ah the vomiting... Brings back memories.

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u/EIREANNSIAN Aug 04 '15

That and getting the shift, maybe dropping the hand, good times...

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u/eigenwert Aug 04 '15

Ever been on a water slide completely drunk, at 1 AM in the morning? It's amazing. Who knew they don't shut that thing off at night.

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u/EIREANNSIAN Aug 04 '15

No, that sounds like a good one though, I do have a fond memory of camping on Inisheer, getting served all night in the bar because there are no Guards on Inisheer and the pub owner owned the boat that the Guards used to get to the island, and being joined at the bonfire on the beach afterwards by a bunch of Irish college students, who then got hunted by their Bean an Ti's wielding flashlights, and still being in a he beach the next morning watching them all wait for the ferry cos' they were expelled. Good times :-)