@dogslurp @BattleDwarfGimli @Largo Saint Patrick not only invented green piss beer, he brought Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become "the isle of saints and scholars"... thus preserving Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians.

While Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era, it could not have been a thing without Ireland.
Irish monks and scribes maintained the very record of Western civilization... copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost. ☘️