One of the pleasures of organising RedMonk Brew: The Monki Gras has been watching the steady flow of sales through Eventbrite, a great platform for event billing and technology.

I may not exactly be Hadoop, but I did notice one interesting trend – we seem to be doing rather well in attracting Irish architects developers to the event.

So in the last few days we have signups from @oisin aka Oisin Hurley 

Co-founder Vigill, software product construction expert, open source contributor, five for fifty the war stories.

Then there is @boobboo aka Chris Kernaghan

So many things to so many people, some good and some bad, pick your ratio

@darachennis signed up early.

Chief Solutions Architect at Push Technology. Square peg. Round hole. No problem!

My friend Tara Simpson had been considering coming, and last night he clicked “purchase ticket” (top twitter moment, that), even with travel and hotel from Ireland. Thanks for seeing the value Tara.

CEO Instil. Programmer. Trainer.

If we’re talking Irish we shouldn’t forget our very own @tomraftery aka Greenmonk

Lead Analyst at GreenMonk, the Energy and Sustainability practice of industry analyst firm RedMonk

My founding partner @sogrady aka Stephen O’Grady is American, but supports the Sox so I guess he’s an Irishman by proxy. What’s more he sensibly married a good Irish girl (she has a passport)

i helped found RedMonk. if you see someone at a tech conference wearing a Red Sox hat, that’s probably me. married to girltuesday.

Me? My gran was a Lapin. Irish again.

So the Irish are coming. I would say (and indeed did so last night) National Achievement! Award Unlocked. I am pretty sure there will be more Irish at MonkiGras, and if so I will update this list.

If you’re an Irish developer nerd you should sign up.