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  • On which date is Saint Patrick’s Day?
    17th March
  • What can you find in the columns of an important building in O'Connell Street?
    bullets from the Easter Rising
  • What is this?
    Howth
  • Who wrote Gulliver’s travels?
    Jonathan Swift
  • Which Irish author wrote “Ulysses” in 1922?
    James Joyce
  • What is this?
    the Spire
  • Where is this statue?
    In Merrion Square
  • Who were the first inhabitants of Ireland?
    the Celts
  • Where can you find the Book of Kells?
    at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
  • What is the area in Dublin where many tourists go to for drinks and food called?
    Temple Bar
  • What are the 2 official languages of Ireland?
    English and Irish (Gaelic)
  • What is this?
    St. Patrick's cathedral
  • In what year was the Easter Rising?
    1916
  • What is this?
    a shamrock
  • What order are the colours in the Irish flag?
    Green, White, Orange
  • What is Ireland’s biggest airline?
    Ryanair
  • What is the Book of Kells?
    an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin, containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.
  • The Great Famine was caused by a shortage of which crops?
    potatoes
  • Ireland has been independent since.....
    1922
  • Which river flows through the centre of Dublin?
    the Liffey River
  • What is this?
    the GPO