Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Tell them to build the wall, and just make sure they're on the other side when they finish it. The Irish are not a race known for their attention to fine details.
Chinese Exclusion Act
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Irish Catholics? Why the hell would we want more of those? Unless you want an awesome althistory with King Ned Kelly creating a New Eire in the South Pacific - and I do - we need to get rid of the ones we've got, not invite more.
Tell them to build the wall, and just make sure they're on the other side when they finish it. The Irish are not a race known for their attention to fine details.
Sounds like an idea I heard floated for how you could build that wall in the US to keep out Mexicans.
ParkCungHee
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New Eire is from a fantastic time-travel short story by an Australian author my brother-in-law lent me. It's in a collection edited by Isaac Asimov. Don't remember the name or author, unfortunately. I always thought it had great potential for expansion.
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...I suddenly realize that I was born to read this story.
Then you're in luck. The short-story in question is "Grimes at Glenrowan" by A. Bertam Chandler. It is published in Isaac Asimov's Comets and Computers and is part of Chandler's Rim Runners series. It is the only story in the series to take place on Earth, since the Rim Worlds refer to planets at the edge of the Galaxy. Good thing my brother-in-law left so much crap here when he moved or I may never have found it for you.
Bear in mind that New Eire is not explored much in the story; it's the possibility of the time-travelers saving Ned Kelly's life at Glenrowan and assisting him in creating New Eire that is the story. I still feel it's a damn fine work though.
Certainly not something to be proud of, but it's important that it is remembered nonetheless.
Win.
classical_hero
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Well there was one is WA.
That was a fence, not a wall. And it didn't work. Then again, China's wall didn't exactly work out either.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Well, that depends how you look at it- it was never intended to keep anyone out, just to slow them down and give advance warning to the standing armies, which were kept some distance behind the border. Strategically, it was more like an elaborate string of watchtowers than a barrier.
I've heard that it was more to make it harder for raiders to make it back out of China with their loot than to keep them from raiding.
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