Ireland

How many of these questions can you answer?

Print this document before starting your task and answer as many questions as you can. When your group finishes the Webzine section, have a look at it again and check how many questions you can answer this time. Surprised?

1. Which of these towns (Galway, Cork, and Limerick) are in the South of the country?

2. Which kind of dish is usually prepared for Saint Patrick’s Day?

3. What do James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, William Butler Yeats and Oscar Wilde have in common?

4. What are jigs and reels?

5. Which county has four of Ireland’s six peaks above 3,000 feet (900 metres)?

6. What’s the Book of Kells?

7. When did Ireland suffered the great Famine?

8. Can you locate Croagh Patrick the on a map?

9. What’s the Bloody Sunday?

10. What materials are used to make a Bodhrán?

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