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Fact 1 |
c. 7500 BC first inhabitants where in Ireland |
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Fact 2 |
Phoenix
Park in Ireland is Europeans biggest park |
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Fact 3 |
Ireland have won the Eurovision Song Contest (Comórtas
Amhrán Eorafíse) 7 times (1970, 1980, 1987, 1992, 1993,
1994, 1996) |
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Fact 4 |
St
Patrick real name was Maewyn Succat, and Patricius was his
Romanised name |
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Fact 5 |
Ireland had its first female President in 1991, Mary
Robinson who was succeeded Mary McAleese. Ireland is the
only country to have 2 female presidents one after each
other |
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Fact 6 |
Henry
Ford of Ford Motor Company was the son of an Irish emigrant |
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Fact 7 |
The River Shannon (Sionainn or Sionna) is the longest river
in the British Isles, being 386 km (240 miles) long |
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Fact 8 |
Bernard
Murphy swapped his own daughter for 3 cows and a sheep in
1907 at Donegal Farmers Market - County Donegal |
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Fact 9 |
Smoking in public places is banned; the Irish purchase 20
million cigarettes a day |
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Fact 10 |
Ireland
is the 20th largest island in the World and the 6th European
Island |