Tea Pub - Ireland Quiz – 9th April
How can you prepare? Where to find the necessary information?
I.
Irish Language Areas in Ireland
http://www.broadsheet.ie/2013/04/12/irish-acce
II.
Some Irish/Gaelic words in English
1. boycott: an eponym; from Captain Charles Boycott (1832 - 1897) a British land agent who was ostracised by the
local community in the west of Ireland, 1880s. In 1880, as part of its campaign for the "Three Fs" (fair rent, fixity
of tenure and free sale) to protect tenants from exploitation, the Irish Land League withdrew the local labour
required to save the harvest on Lord Erne's estate. When Boycott tried to undermine the campaign, the League
launched a campaign of isolation against him in the local community. Neighbours would not talk to him; shops
would not serve him; local labourers refused to tend his house, and the postman refused to deliver his mail.
2. clan: extended family, from Gaelic ‘clann’.
3. colleen: (from cailín) girl (usually referring to an Irish girl)
4. crack: fun. Although not of Irish origin, ‘crack’ is often spelled ‘craic’ to make it seem so. It originates in the north
of England and is not related to the drug ‘crack’. Idiomatic phrases in Ireland: ‘What’s the craic?’ (Hi, what’s
happening?); ‘The craic was ninety!’ (We had a lot of fun.)
5. donnybrook: a fight (from a village in South Dublin known for its violent market/fair in the 19th century; now
used and understood mainly in the USA).
6. eejit: Hiberno-English pronunciation of ‘idiot’; less insulting that ‘idiot.’ Examples: ‘Stop acting the eejit!’ / ‘That
guy’s an awful eejit, isn’t he?’
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galore: plenty, enough. From go leor, the Irish for ‘a lot’. ‘There was food and drink galore at the party!’
8.
gob: (literally beak) mouth. ‘I pucked him in the gob!’ (I punched him in the mouth); ‘Shut your gob!’ (Shut your
mouth!); ‘That guy is an awful gobshite!’ (That guy is an idiot (shit-mouth!).
9. hooligan: an eponym; from Patrick Hooligan, a London-Irishman who murdered a policeman in 1898.
10. puck: punch/hit (e.g. ‘I pucked him in the gob.’). ‘Puck’ is also the name given to the goat that is crowned king
for a week during the Puck Fair in Killorglin village, County Kerry (south-west Ireland).
11. smashing! = That's good/great!’ Possibly from Gaelic: ‘Is maith é sin.’ / That is good.)
12. slogan: slua ghairm = a war cry or gathering cry, as formerly used among the Scottish clans.
/Desmond Fitzgibbon- Emerald Cultural Institute, Dublin/
http://www.ireland-information.com/heraldichall/irishsurnames.htm
III.
History
1. St Patrick and Christianity
2.
Viking attacks
3.
Norman Ireland
4.
Henry VIII and English reformation
5.
Acts of Union 1801-1912
6.
Potato famine, Ester Rising, War of Independence
7. 1922 – free state, Northern Ireland and Modern Economic Rise of
the Irish
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/ireland/history/
video 1 hour – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkI88YF2XKg
A BRIEF HISTORY OF IRELAND
Today, Ireland is a country with a bright future. In 2005, “Economist” magazine selected it as the best place in the world
to live. Hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world share that opinion and have moved there in the last
decade. But this optimistic outlook was not always the case. Ireland has a long, often bloody and tragic history.
Ireland was first settled around the year 8000 BC, when hunter-gatherers came from Great Britain and Europe, possibly
by land bridge. They lived by hunting and fishing for about four thousand years. Around 4000 BC they began to farm,
and the old hunter-gatherer lifestyle gradually died out.
The descendants of these original settlers built burial mounds and impressive monuments such as Ireland’s most famous
prehistoric site, Newgrange. Newgrange is a stone tomb dated to sometime before 3000 BC: older than the pyramids in
Egypt. Early Irish society was organized into a number of kingdoms, with a rich culture, a learned upper class, and
artisans who created elaborate and beautiful metalwork with bronze, iron, and gold.
Irish society was pagan for thousands of years. This changed in the early fifth century AD, when Christian missionaries,
including the legendary St. Patrick, arrived. Christianity replaced the old pagan religions by the year 600. The early
monks introduced the Roman alphabet to what had been largely an oral culture. They wrote down part of the rich
collection of traditional stories, legends and mythology that might have otherwise been lost.
Two centuries later, from the early ninth century AD, Vikings invaded Ireland.
These attacks went on for over 100 years. At first the Vikings raided monasteries and villages. Eventually, they built
settlements on the island, many of which grew into important towns. Irish cities founded by the Viking invaders include
Dublin, the capital city of the Republic of Ireland, as well as Limerick, Cork, and Wexford. Irish society eventually
assimilated the descendants of the Vikings.
The year 1169 saw another invasion that had severe consequences for the island. An invasion of Norman mercenaries
marked the beginning of more than seven centuries of Norman and English rule in Ireland. The Norman/English control
over Ireland was expanded until the beginning of the 13th century, when the new rulers began to be assimilated into
Irish society, as had the Vikings before them.
The Reformation brought this time of relative peace to a brutal end. Beginning in 1534, military campaigns put down
Irish chiefs who would not submit to the English king. People were massacred. A policy of “plantations” began: land was
confiscated from Catholic Irish landowners, and given to Protestant settlers from England and Scotland. During the next
century and a half, Catholic Ireland was conquered, and religion became a source of division and strife, a role it held
until recent times.
During the 18th century, many laws were passed that discriminated against Catholics. The native Gaelic language was
banned in schools. By 1778, only five percent of the land was owned by Catholics. In 1801, the Irish parliament was
abolished and Ireland became part of “the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland”. Catholics could not hold
parliamentary office until 1829.
Poverty was widespread. For many Irish, potatoes were the most important food. In 1845, disaster struck: the potato
blight. This disease destroyed much of the potato crop for the next few years. The cause of the blight was not
immediately understood, and the English rulers did little to help the situation.
About a million people died of starvation or disease. Another million emigrated to escape poverty and starvation.
Because of the potato blight, the population of Ireland fell from more than eight million in 1841 to about six million in
1852. The population continued to decline more slowly until the second half of the 20th century.
Efforts to gain home rule and improve the condition of the people went on during the 19th century. There were
movements for land reform and movements to make Gaelic the official language of Ireland once again. There was strong
Protestant opposition to these demands. By 1900, civil war loomed. The Home Rule act was passed in 1914, which
would have given Ireland some autonomy, but it was suspended when the first world war started.
There was an uprising on Easter Day, April 24, in 1916. The Easter Uprising failed to spread beyond Dublin, and the
leaders were arrested and executed. Their brutal treatment tipped public opinion in favour of independence. The Irish
War of Independence began in 1919 and continued until 1921.
In 1922, the southern 26 counties of Ireland seceded from the United Kingdom. The new country called itself the Irish
Free State. Gaelic was restored as the official national language, together with English. Ties with Great Britain were cut
in 1948. The country became known as the Republic of Ireland. The other six counties in the north of the Ireland, called
Northern Ireland, remained part of the UK, which they still are today.
This did not end the conflict. There was sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland, between Nationalists, largely Catholics,
who wanted Northern Ireland to unite with the Irish Republic, and the Unionists, mostly Protestants, who were loyal to
Great Britain. This unrest exploded violently in the late 1960s, a time called the Troubles. It did not end until 1998, when
a peace agreement was signed.
Economically, things slowly began to look up for the Irish after the establishment of the Irish Republic. The economy
began to grow in the late 1950s. The population began to increase for the first time since the potato blight, but even
today, at about 6 million, it has not yet re-attained its 1841 level.
Ireland joined the EEC (now the European Union) in 1973. Membership did much to improve the Irish economy, both
through direct aid and by increasing foreign investment there. The Irish economy boomed in the 1990s, so much so that
Ireland was nicknamed “the Celtic Tiger”. After centuries of poverty and suffering, Ireland is now a prosperous, modern
country with much to offer the world.
/2008 abcteach.com/
IV.
Geography
Name these Geographical Locations on a Blank Map
Celtic Sea, Irish Sea, Saint George’s Channel
Aran Islands, Achill Island, Gorumna Island
Galway Bay, Donegal Bay
Kerry Mountains, Carrauntoo Hill, Wicklow Mountains, Mourne Mountains, Giant’s Causeway, Donegal Mountains
Central Plain, Shannon, Cliffs of Moher, Lough Neagh, Lough Foyle, Lakes of Killarney
Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Galway, Limerick, Waterford
V.
Famous Places
Identify some of these famous places shown on the screen:
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Dublin
National Museum – Archeology
Natural History Museum
Trinity College
Fitzwilliam Square
Chester Beatty Library
Temple Bar
Christ Church Cathedral
Saint Patrick Cathedral
Old Jameson’s Distillery
O’Connell Street
Guinness Storehouse
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Malahide Castle
Dun Laoghaire
Wicklow Mountains
Enniskerry
Glendalough
Powerscourt
Kilkenny
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Lakes of Killarney
Cork
− Blackrock Castle
The Shannon Region
− Limerick
− Cliffs of Moher
− Dunguaire Castle
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Burren national Park
Western Ireland
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Galway
Aran Islands
Northern Ireland
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Carrick-a-rede
Giant’s Causeway
Belfast
Grand Opera House
Belfast Castle
Down Cathedral
New Titanic Visitor Centre
Literature
Reading : Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oxford Bookworm - Stage 3
Seamus Heaney - poet - biography and poem: Digging - The poem is at the bottom of the page. Click on the title and
listen.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/seamus-heaney
James Joyce - writer - Ulysses
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3810193.stm
Samuel Beckett - writer - Waiting for Godot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot
J.B. Shaw: Pygmalion
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/pygmalion/context.html
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/pygmalion/summary.html
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/pygmalion/characters.html
Yeats:
http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/yeats/context.html
http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/yeats/section1.rhtml
Read the poem:
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-lake-isle-of-innisfree/
VII.
Film
1. Michael Collins (1996) - watch the film.
Director: Neil Jordan
Writer: Neil Jordan
Stars: Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Julia Roberts
II. Short Cuts from some of these films – Identify the Irish actor, name the title of the film, name another film where
the same Irish actor played.
1.
Harry Potter és a bölcsek köve / Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001)
Director: Chris Colombus
2.
Csavard be, mint Beckham/ Bend it Like Beckham (2002)
Director: Gurinder Chadha
3.
Apám nevében / In the Name of the Father (1993)
Director: Jim Sheridan
4.
Téli mese/ Winter’s Tale (2014)
Director: Akiva Goldsman
5.
Halj meg máskor / Die Another Day (2002)
Director: Lee Tamahori
6.
Becstelen brigantyk / Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
7.
Párizsból szerettel / From Paris with Love (2010)
Director: Pierre Morel
8.
Gladiator (2000)
Director: Ridley Scott
9.
Frankenstein (1994)
Director: Kenneth Brannagh
10.
A bal lábam / My Left Foot (1989)
Director: Jim Sheridan
VIII.
Folk Music and Dance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_music_of_Ireland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chieftains
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Harp_Orchestra
www.michaelflatley.com/about/bio+his dance shows on you tube: Lord of the Dance, Feet of Flames, Celtic Tiger
IX.
Pop Music - Irish Musicians, Bands,
U2 – rock band
QUIZ on U2 - http://www.atu2.com/band/bio.html
Songs:
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhi6nNYNOxQ
One - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgZ4ammawyI
Enya
Songs:
Caribbean Blue - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1L8uRApYeQ
Only time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfYIMyS_dI
The Script – rock band
Songs:
If You Could see Me Now - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGlkwKA-t_4
Hall of fame - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adAdN5IRDMY
Wallis Bird – musician
Songs:
Hardly hardly - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxX9HJ0A7F8
To My Bones - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIVif6zvDIs
The Corrs
Songs:
Breathless - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Q5gTvYrl8
So young - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzLTf69vQos
The Cranberries
Songs:
Zombie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts
No need to argue - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEaxoSMUgXI