Rebuilding Lives in Northern Ireland
Posted in Irish Trivia on Jun 1st, 2015
The Irish have always had a knack for negotiating between warring factions, given their history of clan wars. In America they naturally took to the jobs of politicians. An articulate Irishman could defeat his opponent with one verbal blow.
Posted in Irish Trivia on Apr 13th, 2015
British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli didn’t always have a grasp of the Irish question such as in 1868, when he said: ” I want to see a public man come forward and say what the Irish question is. It is the Pope one day and the potato the next.”
Posted in Irish Trivia on Apr 6th, 2015
The Gaelic Revival consisted mainly of the middle class. The Irish peasantry was much too busy finding a bite to eat and keep a roof over their heads to be interested in poetry, mythology and great Celtic literature.
Posted in Irish Trivia on Mar 27th, 2015
Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.
Posted in Irish Trivia on Feb 21st, 2015
It is said a dip in the River Shannon will cure bashfulness and inhibitions.
Posted in Irish Trivia on Dec 23rd, 2014
Dublin is called the “Fair City” after the song ‘Molly Malone’.
Posted in Irish Trivia on Dec 22nd, 2014
Musicologist Herbert Hughes in the early 1900’s roamed the hills of Donegal and the Glens of Antrim collecting old folk songs. His collection can be found in the ‘Historical Songs and Ballads of Ireland’ and ‘Songs of Uladh’.
Posted in Irish Trivia on Oct 12th, 2014
By the end of 18th Century there were 2,000 whiskey stills in operation around Ireland.
Posted in Irish Trivia on Mar 21st, 2014
Someone may predict rain by saying God is going to water the garden tonight.
Posted in Irish Trivia on Mar 16th, 2014
Ireland is a land older than the alphabet and without a yesterday.
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