Now for a bit of trivia ~
- Did you know that according to old Irish folklore, to cure a stomachache, one must swallow a live frog.
- Irish women received the right to vote prior to American women!
- The Irish alphabet has only 18 letters! J, K, Q, V, W, X, Y and Z are not used.
- Four Irish writers have won the Nobel Prize for Literature: G. Shaw, W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, and Seamus Heaney
- In 1986, a 900 year old cheese was found perfectly preserved in a Tipperary bog - can you imagine being the first to take a bite from that cheese?!?
- Cahirciveen in Kerry was once so inaccessible from the rest of Ireland that it was quicker to send newspapers and mail from Dublin via New York!
- John Tyndall, a physicist who was born in Leighlin Bridge, County Carlow, was first to discover why the sky was blue!
- The Devil's Bit Mountain near Thurles, County Tipperary, is so called because Satan, furious at finding no wicked souls in Ireland as he flew over it, supposedly bit a chunk out of the rock in his rage!
May peace and joy surround you
Contentment latch your door,
And happiness be with you now
And bless you evermore.
A live frog? Yikes!
ReplyDeleteHappy St. Patty's Day to you too!
ReplyDeleteI suppose swallowing alive frog would cure a stomachache because you'd have bigger problems to worry about!
ReplyDeleteHappy St.Patrick's Day to you! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the facts Stacy PS it's been a while huh! Hope all is good :)
ReplyDeleteHappy St. Patrick's Day Stacy!
ReplyDeleteah - love the slideshow! Makes me want to go back! And thanks for the fun facts.
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