A Wee Bit of Trivia: Irish Crossword Puzzle
- John O'Brien
- October 30, 2022
- Edited 5 months ago
Table of Contents
A Wee Bit of Trivia: Irish Crossword Puzzle
By Linda Fulton Burke
ACROSS
1 Matt Molloy plays the _____.
3 ______ Day-Lewis – Gangs of New
York, The
6 In December 1923, Yeats was awarded
the _____ Prize in Literature.
7 ____ Road was written by Maeve
Binchy.
9 Bram ______ was the creator of
Dracula.
10 The Chieftans have won six ______
Awards and been nominated eighteen
times.
12 Handel’s classic “_______” was
premiered for the first time in 1742 in
Dublin at the New Musik Hall.
14 Christy Moore was also a member of
Moving _______.
16 The Chieftans recorded “The Long
Black ____” with Mick Jagger.
18 In 1891, 1899, 1900,1901 and 1917
Yeats proposed marriage to Maud
______, but was rejected.
20 _______ Moore was once a member of
Planxty.
22 Maeve Binchy wrote a Circle of
__________.
23 _______ O’Hara – Miracle on 34th
Street, The Quiet Man, How Green Was
My Valley
24 Derek ________ left the Wolfe Tones
in 2001,
28 ______ O’Toole – Lawrence of Arabia.
Ratatouille, Prometheus.
29 The Dubliners’ first single was “_____
___.to Dublin” and “The Wild Rover”.
31 Jerpoint Abbey is located in Co.
_________.
DOWN
1 ______ of New York became #1 in
Ireland in 1981.
2 In 1983, the Chieftans were invited by
the Chinese Government to play in a
concert on the Great ____ of China.
3 Luke Kelly sang “_____ Old Town.”
4 There are ____ provinces in Ireland.
5 ________ Ronan The Grand Budapest
Hotel, Atonement, The Lovely Bones
8 Ireland registered the ____as its symbol
in 1876.
11 “Seven _______ Nights” was sung by
Ronnie Drew.
13 Jonathan ____ wrote Gulliver’s Travels.
14 Bobby Sands, a ________ Striker wrote
“Back Home in Derry.”
15 Blarney Castle is located in Blarney,
Co. ____.
17 _____ de Valera was President of
Ireland 1959-1973.
19 The county town(seat) of County Mayo
is ________.
20 Rock of ______ is located in Co.
Tipperary.
21 W. B. Yeats helped found the
______Theatre in Dublin.
23 “Joe _________,” a song about an IRA
member who was the fifth person to die
on the 1981 Hunger Strike.
25 _______ Castle is located in Cong, Co.
Mayo.
26 Erin go bragh means Ireland ______.
27 ______, a suburb of Dublin, is Ireland’s
“Beverly Hills”, home to a number of
Irish celebrities.
30 The prefixes ___, Don, and Down mean
fort or fortress in Irish place names.
