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.