There is room for a well-researched, unbiased and scholarly account of the history of the Irish Internet - this isn't it. Instead, this is a personal, partisan, and pugnacious relating of how the career of the author and the progression of the Internet in Ireland overlapped. It is informed by interviews with: - Dennis Jennings, NSF and UCD Computing Services director, responsible for the choice to use TCP/IP - Barry Rhodes, ex-CEO of INEX - T. J. McIntyre, Digital Rights activist and lawyer - Barry Flanagan, co-founder Ireland On-Line - Michele Neylon, Blacknight CEO & co-founder - Nick Hilliard, CTO of INEX - Mark Keane, Professor of Computer Science UCD - Mags McGaley, eVoting activist - David Curtin, CEO IE Domain Registry - Alex French, Head of Product at SIRO