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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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