The Green Isle
Some fun facts about Ireland:
- The original Abbey Theatre in Dublin was opened in 1904 on the site of a morgue.
- Seventy years after the treaty, the waters of Carlingford Lough are still in dispute between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
- The world’s most northerly vineyard is in Mallow, County Cork.
- Prehistoric tombs at Newgrange in County Meath are older than the Great Pyramids of Egypt.
- Balbriggan, County Dublin, was once the hosiery capital of the world. Around the turn of the century stockings and tights were widely known as ‘Balbriggans’. It’s so sexy to ask your lady friend to take off her balbriggans.
- Ireland’s only gold rush took place in 1795 at Croghan in the Wicklow Mountains. It made no-one rich.
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