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?

c. James Connolly


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.

d. Eamonn DeValera-He was born in the US and the Brits wanted the Americans to join World War 1, and so were afraid of offending them.

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

b. feadog stain-This is the tin whistle. invented in England

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

d. Follow Me Up to Carlow; Danny Boy was written by an Englishman, The Unicorn by American writer Shel Silverstein, and And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda was written by Eric Bogle


5. Who wrote that hauntingly beautiful song Ride On?

c. Jimmy McCarthy


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

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

c. Joseph Mary Plunkett

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?
The first one was in August 1913 in Dublin during the Lockout. It helped to give rise to Connolly's Irish Citizen Army. The second one was also in Dublin. Michael Collins sent his squad out to assassinate 14 British Intelligence officers. Then the RIC raided a Gaelic Football game at Croke park, killing 14 innocent people. Then two high ranking IRA officers were arrested and killed in suspicious circumstances. The assassinations of the Intelligence officers crippled the operations of Dublin Castle. The third Bloody Sunday was on January 30, 1972. Soldiers from a British parachute regiment fired upon a crowd of unarmed peaceful civil rights protesters in Derry, killing 13 people and wounding several others. The British government's tribunal found the soldiers were not guilty of shooting the civilians in cold blood.

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

c. Bobby Sands

10. Slainte means what in English?

a. health

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

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

d. water of life

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

b. partition of the six counties of ulster fromt he rest of Erin.

14. Tommy Makem once wrote a song about the Four Green Fields. Name them. Connaught, Leinster, Ulster, and Munster

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

e. Jim Larkin