Ireland
Irish Words
Music and Dance
Local History
General Knowledge
100

This is the capital city of Ireland

What is Dublin?

100

The word "sláinte" is often said when raising a glass.

What is "Cheers"?

100

This traditional Irish dance is often done in a square with four couples.

What is céilí dancing?

100

This large lake forms part of the border of Roscommon and is known for fishing.

What is Lough Ree?

100

This sport is known as Ireland’s national game and is played with a small ball called a sliotar.

What is Hurling?

200

This green plant is the national plant of Ireland 

What is The Shamrock?

200

This word "uisce" means this liquid, and whiskey became the "uisce of life".

What is Water?

200

This instrument, smaller than a guitar, is very common in Irish traditional music.

What is a fiddle?

200

This Roscommon town is home to a large psychiatric hospital once known as St. Patrick’s Hospital.

What is Castlerea?

200

This American president visited Ireland in 1963 to see his ancestral home in Wexford.

Who was John F Kennedy?

300

This river, the longest in Ireland, flows through Limerick before reaching the sea.

What is The River Shannon?

300

"Póg", often done to a particular stone in Blarney Castle.

What is "Kiss"?

300

This traditional Irish drum is played with a small stick called a tipper.

What is the bodhrán? 

300

The GAA team from this neighbouring county wears the maroon and white.

What is Galway?

300

This Irish TV programme, first broadcast in 1962, is the world’s longest-running chat show.

What is "the late late show"?

400

A county known as "The Kingdom"

What is County Kerry?

400

The Irish word “amadán” is used to describe this kind of person.

What is "fool"?

400

This Irish singer, known as “the Velvet Voice,” was famous for songs like “Danny Boy.”

Who is Josef Locke?

400

This Roscommon man was the first president of Ireland.

Who is Douglas Hyde?

400

The Titanic was built in this Northern Irish City.

What is Belfast?

500

This mountain is the highest point above sea level in Ireland.

What is Carrauntoohil ?

500

The Irish word “saol” means this — people often say “fáilte go dtí an saol".

What is "life"?
500

In Irish dancing, this part of the body is kept straight and stiff while the feet move quickly.

What are the arms?

500

This historic royal site near Tulsk in Roscommon was once the seat of the High Kings of Connacht.

What is Rathcroghan (Cruachan)? 

500

This planet is the 5th furthest from the sun.

What is Jupiter?