Irish History
Which Scandinavians invaded Ireland in the 9th and 10th centuries?
Vikings
This plant is well-known to bring good luck!
What is the four-leaf clover?
This is the longest river in Ireland.
What is the Shannon River?
Leprechauns are based on fairies from these places.
What are Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and Brittany?
Tha Mi Sgith means this in English.
What is "A Fairy's Love Song"?
How did Patrick arrive in Ireland?
He was taken from Great Britain as a slave.
St. Patrick is supposed to have removed these from Ireland.
What are snakes?
This descendent of Eileen Osborne is related to the Great Catholic Emancipator, whose statue has stood on O'Connell Street in Dublin since 1882.
Who is Riley O'Connell? He is related to Daniel O'Connell.
This famous stone at this famous castle is reputed to give one the gift of gab!
What is the Blarney Stone at Blarney Castle?
Another prefix that many Irish names have is the "O" such as O'Riley. What does the "O" represent?
Grandson of
This international Irish Dance Troupe has been performing since 1994.
What is Riverdance?
St. Patrick wasn't born with the name. What was his real birth name?
Maewyn Succat
An Gorta Mor, which started in 1845, is known in English as (The Great)
What is The Great Famine?
This Irish plant represents the Trinity used by Christians.
What is the shamrock with its three leaves?
This group of people founded Dublin twice the first time in 841AD again in 917AD
Who are the Vikings?
What is in an Irish coffee?
Coffee and whiskey
He created Riverdance.
Who is Michael Flatley?
If you don't wear green on St. Patrick's Day, this is what happens to you.
What is getting pinched?
The Titanic was built at an Irish shipyard in this city.
What is Belfast?
You won't want to drive on this side of the road in Ireland.
What is the right side?
Ireland has this many provinces.
What is four? Leinster, Munster, Connacht, and Ulster.
In 1997, this became legal in Ireland
Divorce
What is the jig or the Irish Ceili?
The first St. Patrick's Day Parade in America was in what state?
What is St. Augustine, FL in 1601?
This musical instrument has been associated with Irish flags since the 1640s?
What is the Harp?
What currency is used in the Republic of Ireland?
Euro
The famous River Liffey runs through one of these counties…
counties Wicklow, Kildare and Dublin
This bird is called "The King of Birds" in Ireland:
The wren
This was the loveliest animal when the earth was being created
What is the Unicorn?
This river is turned green every year in this midwestern city of the same name in honor of St. Patrick's Day.
What is the Chicago River?
He is the giant of Northern Ireland's Giant's Causeway?
Who is Finn McCool?
This is the capital of the Republic of Ireland.
What is Dublin?
This is the capital of Northern Ireland.
What is Belfast?
In traditional Irish Stew there's lots of potatoes and this meat is used?
What is Lamb?
"The summers gone, and all the roses falling,
it's you, it's you must go and I must bide"
Who is Danny Boy?
St. Patrick introduced this cross to Ireland. It includes the sun at its center.
What is the Celtic Cross?
These are the colors of the Irish flag?
What are green, white, and orange?
A lot of Irish names begin with "Mac" which means this.
What is "Son of...."?
These spectacular cliffs are located in County Clare, Ireland.
What are the Cliffs of Moher?
This female name is an Irish term for a girl or young woman.
What is Colleen?
She wheeled her wheelbarrow through streets
broad and narrow
crying cockles and mussels, alive, alive-O!
Who is Molly Malone?
This is the color Patrick is normally associated with.
What is azure blue? The color green was adopted much later as a sign of rebellion against the English rulers.