IRISH GIANS

MITHOLOGICAL BEINGS FROM IRELAND

 PRESENTED BY
• ANA MARIA LOPEZ
• PAULA RUIZ ROJAS
• EIGHTH GRADE
• The Irish Gians are those people with a mutation or special
condition in their height.
• Because of their condition they did not live too long, some
people admired them but most of them did not respect them
so much in life or after death.
• Some of the most famous or recognized irish gians were
Cornelius Mcgrath, Charles Byrne and Patrick Cotter.
CORNELIUS MCGRATH AND CHARLE BYRNE
PATRICK COTTER
• Patrick Cotter born the same year as
Byrne, 1760,is one of fewer than
twenty people whose height has
been verified at over eight feet.

• Based in Bristol, Cotter adopted the

stage name O´brien and was
exhibited in the ibiquitous freak of
the eighteenth century, until his death
in 1806.
• He was more fortunate than Mcgrath
and byrne in that he lived longer
than the other two conbined, and, on
his death, lefh a legacy of €2000.

• He also managed to avoid the post

mortem fate of his contemporanies.
he was not anatomized, although he
greatly feared that he would be and
wanted to entombed in twelve feet
of solid rock to thwart graverobbers.
• However, his body was exhumed three
times, in 1906, in 1972—when he was
officially measured at eight foot and
one inch—and in 1986, after which he
was cremated, thus finally and
definitively avoiding the undignified fate
of Mcgrath and Byrne.
• Patrick Cotter, one of three celebrated
but generally unfortunate irish giants of
the eighteenth century, was born two
hundred and fifty-eight years ago, on
this day.