Quiz, by Derrymore

THEME: Ireland

1. Name the only inhabited island off the north Antrim coast.

2. Name the only Irish politician with a major road tunnel named after him.

3. Name the town that was called Galvia by the Romans.

4. Name former Irish president born in New York in 1882 of an Irish mother, and a Spanish father.

5. Name the area of Wexford that was intended to be the location of Ireland’s first nuclear power station

6. Name the western Irish town whose name derives from the Irish for ‘place of many shells’

7. Name the county in which legal contracts such as buying and selling a house still require the use of its former name King’s County.

8. Name the Irish poet who wrote ‘Are You Right There, Michael?’ and was sued by the West Clare railway over his sarcastic comments on their system.

9. Name the large bay containing many islands including Dorinish island, purchased by John Lennon in 1967.

10. Name the four counties which share borders with Cork.

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Answers

1. Rathlin Island

2. Jack Lynch

3. Galway

4. Éamon de Valera

5. Cahore Point

6. Sligo

7. Offaly

8. Percy French

9. Clew Bay

10. Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford