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The Lost Irish Tradition Of Lifting Heavy Stones

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The Importance of Understanding Geology

I'm also thinking about a culture of boredom. Back then, when you didn't have TV, radio, nothing, and you're on an island, if there's a fucking pink stone, everyone wants to find out about this pink stone. And then someone says, I bet you can't lift this. So it is important. You know, obviously the men lifted that stone because it's still there. That's the reason they lifted it, you know. The last time probably a lifting stone was written about maybe back in the 1920s,. It's just something I like, because I started looking up the geology of the areas, what stones are prevalent in that area.

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