By Linda Fulton Burke
All Things Irish
ACROSS
5 Distillery that provides us with
most of our Irish Whiskey
8 dessert made with bananas,
carmel, cream, chocolate sauce
10 Tommy Makem’s partner
11 blackthorn stick
15 Co. Clare’s biggest tourist
attraction
16 Cleveland’s Twin City
18 City of Tribes
19 keening woman that forewarns
of death
21 St. Patrick used this to explain
the Trinity
23 County home to Rock of Cashel
and Cahir Castle
26 Mashed potatoes with cabbage,
onion
27 Folk Park with Castle in
Co.Clare
28 producers of wool
31 Irish drum
37 small woodwind Instrument
played with fingers and blowing
into it
38 Fin MacCool’s path to Scotland
43 Kiss this to get “the gift of
eloquence”
44 wee shoe cobbler
45 the old pub by Bunratty Castle
46 fish caught near the weirs of
Ireland
DOWN
1 the fastest Irish sport
2 He wrote “Four Freen Fields”
3 biggest selling Irish whiskey
4 Irish ale originally from Kilkenny
6 trad music hub of Ireland
7 Irish social dances
9 lrish football for women
12 Irish storyteller
13 Irish folk group named after a
rebel patriot
14 Belfast made ship that sank
17 famous Irish singing group from
Tuam
20 Original Irish stout
22 Irish Lager
24 turf for heating
25 famouse scenic drive
29 roof of old time cottages
30 “to your health” toast
32 black horse that brings death
warning
33 sausages
34 Ireland’s most famous crystal
35 John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara
star in this movie
36 oldest distillery
39 N. Ireland capital
40 Old Irish term for unlicensed
establishment selling whiskey,
spirits
41 Irish bacon
42 Ancestral county of most Clevelanders
Linda Fulton Burke
*Linda also worked as secretary to the Grand Recorder of the Ohio Royal and Select Masons. She is a past president of the Irish American Club – Eastside and was selected as Member of the Year in 2009. She is married to Jim Burke and has three children and four grandchildren. Linda is a student of the Irish language and all things Irish
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