Well now that Saint Pat's is just around the corner and you got the once a year Irish drinking green beer and the real lads laughing their arses off at them, I thought of a little quiz to see to commemorate this event...Now for me not being Catholic (hell I'm not even Christain), Saint Pat's is just another excuse to get pissed and to listen to good music, as if I really needed one...but anyways here goes:


1. Which of the following signers of the Poblacht Na h-Eireann was shot in a chair due to an infected wound in his foot?

a. Padraig Pearse
b. Joseph Mary Plunkett
c. James Connolly
d. Thomas Clarke
e. Michael Collins


2. Which of the following men were slated for execution in the aftermath of the Rising, but the sentence was commuted to imprisonment. For a bonus answer tell me why.

a. Henry Joy
b. William Pearse
c. Thomas MacDonough
d. Eamonn DeValera
e. None of the Above.


3. Which of the following instruments that are popularly seen as an Irish instrument is of English origin?

a. Uilleann pipes
b. feadog stain
c. bodhran
d. clarsach
e. they are all of irish origin

4. Which of the following songs is truly of Irish origin?

a. Danny Boy
b. The Unicorn
c. Barnyards of Delgaty
d. Follow Me Up to Carlow
e. And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda

5. Who wrote that hauntingly beautiful song Ride On?

a. AC/DC
b. Christy Moore
c. Jimmy McCarthy
d. No one did it is traditional.

6. Who said at a speach over the grave of O'Donovan Rossa "But the FOOLS , The FOOLS, the FOOLS! .. They have left us our fenian dead and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace!"

a. Padraig Pearse
b. Michael Collins
c. Eamon Devalera
d. Joseph Mary Plunkett
e. Wolfram

7. Whom did Grace Gifford marry just shortly before his execution in 1916?

a. Bobby Sands
b. Thomas Clarke
c. Joseph Mary Plunkett
d. Tom Barry
e. None of the above. I made it up with insane threads of my own feverish imagination.

8. The 20th century in Ireland had three major events all called Bloody Sunday. What were the dates and the events leading to them being christened that name?

9. The song Back Home in Derry is based on the work of which striker?

a. Francis Hughes
b. Patsy O'Hara
c. Bobby Sands
d. Joe McDonnell
e. No one. It is a traditional song.

10. Slainte means what in English?

a. health
b. cheers
c. piss off
d. salute
e. just drink the fecking thing will ye?

11. True or false. Corned beef and cabbage is a traditional Irish meal.

12. Whiskey is an anglicised word coming from an Irish phrase: uisge bheath. What does that phrase mean?

a. firewater
b. wife beating medicine
c. irish tears
d. water of life
e. liquor

13. The Irish Civil War was started because of what reason?

a. Eamon Devalera being a worhtless cunt.
b. partition of the six counties of ulster fromt he rest of Erin.
c. religion, Catholic and Prod Irish are not meant to be together.
d. the 11 pm closure times at the pub.

14. Tommy Makem once wrote a song about the Four Green Fields. Name them.

15. Who said "The great only appear great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!"

a. Padraig Pearse
b. Michael Collins
c. James Connolly
d. Eamon DeValera
e. Jim Larkin