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This site has developed as a result of the fun quizzes (and the serious ones!) which have been held in the Irish Chat rooms by chatters from all parts of the globe with a common interest in all things Irish. Many of the questions have a strong Irish flavour but there are questions of a general nature from other corners of the world. We hope that you will find these questions both useful and entertaining.

Literature

Who wrote "Angela's Ashes"?

Frank McCourt

What followed Paddy Clarke in the title of Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize winner?

Ha Ha Ha

The Tara Road was written by which novelist?

Maeve Binchy

What is the name of Frank McCourt's follow-up memoir to "Angela's Ashes"?

'Tis

What was the title of Bram Stoker's first novel?

"The Primrose Path"

In which northern county was Nobel Poetry Laureate Seamus Heaney born?

Derry

Which Irish poet was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923?

WB Yeats

When is Bloomsday? (Ulysses)

June 16th

Who wrote the poem 'I am Ireland'?

Padraig Pearse

Which initials did poet Yeats have?

W. B.

James Joyce's first novel shares it's name with which inhabitants of an Irish city?

Dubliners

Who was the author of Gulliver's Travels?

Jonathan Swift

The Book of Kells was written in what language?

Latin

Where is the Book Of Kells on display?

Trinity College, Dublin

Who wrote the Importance Of Being Earnest?

Oscar Wilde

What was the first name of the playwright Beckett?

Samuel

Which Seamus became Ireland's fourth Nobel literary laureate in 1995?

Heaney

Who wrote Juno and the Paycock?

Sean O'Casey

Roddy Doyle wrote of the Woman Who Walked Into what?

Doors

Who was being 'Waited for' inthe Samuel Beckett play?

Godot

Name the estate in Colleen McCullough's Thorn birds?

Drogheda

What animal was Pangur Bán in the poem of that name?

A cat

Who was the author of both 'The Butcher Boy' and 'The Dead School'?

Patrick McCabe

In which city was Bram Stoker born?

Dublin

In which century was the poet Yeats born?

19th

"The field" was written by which Irish playwright?

John B. Keane

Who wrote The Pygmalion that was adapted into My Fair Lady?

George Bernard Shaw

What was the Irish writer AE also known as?

George Russell

Which Irish poet was killed at the Battle of Ypres in World War 1?

Francis Ledwidge

   

 

 

 

 

 


 

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