Let's Make Them Irish
Irish History
Travel Ireland
Irish Authors
Irish Eyes
100

Making an Irisman out of potato chip entrepreneur Herman brings this cry of approval

Ole

100

Between 1844 and 1851, Ireland's population dropped by 20% due to this disaster

The Potato Famine

100

To kiss this, visitors once had to be held by their ankles & lowered head first. today just lie down and lean backward

The Blarney Stone

100

His preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray" says "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book"

Oscar Wilde

100

This Boomtown Rat organized Live Aid

Bob Geldof

200

Make baseball pitcher Nolan (even more) Irish & yoy get this "belted" constellation

Orian

200

Irish herpetophobes are still grateful to the raiders who kidnapped this 16 year-old Brit in the 5th century

Saint Patrick

200

Over 1.5 million annually visit the shrine of Knock, where visions of Joseph, St. John and her were seen in 1879

The Virgin Mary

200

Ezra Pound gave an enthusiastic review to "Dubliners", a collection of short stories by this Irish Author

James Joyce

200

This man with a grandmother from Cork played an Irish American boxer in 1952's "The Quiet Man"

John Wayne

300

Make the band that sang "She Sells Sanctuary" Irish and you've got this realm of the supernatural

Occult

300

One of King Lear's daughters bears this Irish family name that means "little king"

Regan

300

There once was a city in Ireland...this one that's home the Munster National Steeplechase horse race

Limerick

300

It's a historic Irish coronation site, the O'Hara home in American lit & the title "Road: where Maeve Binchy set a novel

Tara

300

Hey, 20 bucks says that you know this president's father was from County Antrim & his mother was Irish too

Andrew Jackson

400

Take any wise man, like the one "of Monticello, " turn him Irish and you'll have this Oklahoma tribe

Osage

400

This Irish chemist's law states that a gas' volume is directly related to the pressure applied to it

Robert Boyle

400

This town is known for the great trout fishing in the Blackwater River &, or course, the Abbey & its famous "Book"

Kells

400

The first two Irishmen to win the Nobel Prize in literature in 1923 and 1925, they share the same middle initial "B"

George Bernard Shaw and William Butler Yeats

400

The record says in 1759 he opened his brewery at St. James Gate

Alex Guinness


500

Turning Hero's mythical lover into an Irishman gives you this evergreen shrub

Oleander
500

The name of these ancient Celtic priests may be derived from daur, an old Irish word for "Oak Tree"

Druid

500

A statue of this cockle and mussel seller on Grafton Street is known by the Dubliners as the "Tart with the Cart"

Molly Malone

500

Born in Ireland in 1667, he wrote political pamphlets as well as satires

Jonathan Swift

500
Everyone knew when it was windy but not how windy until this Irish man came up with his scale in 1805

Sir Francis Beaufort