Sport in Ireland
Name three sports which can be practiced in Ireland
Golf, rugby, football, Gaelic football, hurling, handball, kite-surfing, windsurfing, horse racing, tennis, hiking and cycling.
According to legend, what must a leprechaun give you?
His/her treasure
What are the colours of the Irish flag?
Green, white and orange.
Which famous Irish band formed in the 1970s
A: The Cranberries
B: U2
C: Kodaline
U2
In what year did they begin to make Guinness in Dublin?
1759
How old is hurling thought to be?
A: over 300 years old
B: over 3,000 years old
C: over 30 years old
Over 3000 Years old
According to legend, if you kiss the Blarney stone what will you get?
The 'gift of the gab'.
When was the Irish War of Independence?
1919 - 1921
Which Irish writer wrote Dracula?
A: Samuel Beckett
B: James Joyce
C: Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker
What type of bread is ‘soda bread’?
Rory McIlroy is a famous player of which sport?
Golf
Where can Niamh sometimes be seen looking for her husband Oisín?
In the mist/sea.
How many bridges cross the River Liffey?
27
Which performance of traditional Irish dancing debuted during the 1994 Eurovision song contest?
Riverdance
How much are Irish food and drink exports worth per year?
€12.6 billion
How many times have Ireland won the Six Nations Championship?
14
What was special about the land that Oisín travelled to?
You could never grow old/ it was the land of the young.
When did the Irish people vote in favour of marriage equality?
2015
How many times have Irish writers won the Nobel Prize for literature?
4 (William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett, George Bernard Shaw, Seamus Heaney)
What development did Joseph ‘Spud’ Murphy bring to the potato crisp in 1954?
He introduced the first flavoured potato crisp.