37 Comments

• Towngate | Mar 18, 2011, 02:41 PM EDT

  Searlit: Full marks for Retention! Twice round the fire for you! ( I may set the questions next year, so don't get too cocky!)

• Chieftain | Mar 15, 2011, 09:18 AM EDT

  9 out of 10...only half of the black stuff for me...ah feck it...pour the whole thing!

• Madeliene | Mar 15, 2011, 09:07 AM EDT

  WOO HOO! missed # 8 I am not English LOLOL

• Towngate | Mar 14, 2011, 05:32 PM EDT

  SPARKLET: No great mystery! ~ I got 32 points and wouldn't give Shananagans.tri his 2 points back! ~ Please don't think bad of me, though, - I am going to invest them in Irish Bank Bonds. Slainte!

• Searlit | Mar 13, 2011, 11:41 AM EDT

  I got them all right, but I remembered the one I got wrong last year when they posted this test. I 'll enjoy that Guinness!

• irishindy | Mar 13, 2011, 07:36 AM EDT

  still Irish even do i am 8 years away. 30 points

• gcwfromcanada | Mar 13, 2011, 04:31 AM EDT

  I qualify for the half glass of Guinness. Maybe I'll take it in the Gresham Hotel, that would be wonderful!

• Sparklet | Mar 13, 2011, 03:52 AM EDT

  Shenanigans.tri - how did you manage to get 28?

• Sparklet | Mar 13, 2011, 03:50 AM EDT

  27. I didnt know the Nobel prize one.

• JoanKaren | Mar 12, 2011, 07:07 PM EST

  I like it because I got a 27 and I'm an Irish American

• Towngate | Mar 12, 2011, 05:41 PM EST

  CISSY52; Your comment is very moving. So post more Comments. Get involved. Explain yourself.Tell us story.

• BiffSissy | Mar 11, 2011, 02:39 PM EST

  Lots of "craic" in the comments

• dickmac | Mar 11, 2011, 09:17 AM EST

  There are several very strong myths about our beloved Saint Patrick, #1 His was not Irish. He was born in Wales or Scotland. #2 His name was not Patrick. His given name was Mayween Succat. He took the name Patricus when he was ordained a Priest in France. #3 He never drove the snakes out of Ireland because there were none there. The ecology did not support them. Driving the snakes is a term used in the Bible to "tell a story". The word serpant was used to designate a sinner or someone evil. Hence the snake in the Garden of Eden with Eve,

• WoundedKnee | Mar 11, 2011, 04:46 AM EST

  Tisovertheglen: Looks like granma had Alzheimers. Oliver Plunkett was executed in London, not Drogheda, and Cromwell had been dead for 23 years when Plunkett died.

• Whitepark | Mar 11, 2011, 12:02 AM EST

  The only one I guessed at was #8 the Snakes, which I never believed, my theory always was that they were Super sized worms and decided to call them snakes, and where is there a better place in the world to start rumours other than Ireland!!!

• macausheen | Mar 10, 2011, 11:04 PM EST

  Wasn't sure about the police carrying batons instead of guns. I want my full pint anyhow.

• MAYOLAD | Mar 10, 2011, 10:04 PM EST

  I must have been off that day, when they were teaching history...got 18 not too bad

• cissy52 | Mar 10, 2011, 08:58 PM EST

  I love being IRISH - I only wish I could afford to visit Ireland someday.

• lindaburke | Mar 10, 2011, 08:44 PM EST

  10/10 I'll be there in a few weeks for that pint of Guinness or two. lol

• Correll | Mar 10, 2011, 08:22 PM EST

  It was fun and I did quite well. I thought 8 B was just legend.

• Gearoid4 | Mar 10, 2011, 06:12 PM EST

  Sure if someone says to ye 'Tis yourself' when they grate ye, then you know that person is Irish or must have Irish roots.

• Kells46 | Mar 10, 2011, 04:54 PM EST

  Irishlassred: have you been 'tippin' the glass or what? What you say makes no sense. Read it and check out question #8 again. I guess those lovely nuns did not do such a good job after all,as your spelling is not the best either, i.e. GRAMMAR, not GRAMMER. Maybe you should use spell check yourself. This way people will not trash you as a 2nd generation Irish person!!

• Tisovertheglen | Mar 10, 2011, 04:25 PM EST

  Our aged and late grandmother had some rare 'answers' to the history and geography of Ireland. Had her own unique grasp of things when asked by the hearth on this and that when we were youngsters and stopped by after Sunday Mass. Apparantly there were always potatoes in Ireland but Cromwell brought pestilence and Famine upon us for hanging Blessed Oliver Plunkett in Drogheda. The reason the River Boyne has no fish. St.Patrick banished the snakes from Ireland but they came back on the boats across the water with The Black and Tans. Arthur Guiness & Sons in Dublin fooled the clergy for the longest time that they were Catholic.The reason Pioneer Pins were handed out at the Church Misson by the Redemptorists who said Mass in a lovely way not to be forgotten. May she Rest in Peace. I am forever grateful and Irish by way of a turf fire and memorable moments. She liked Charles Stewart Parnell and Yeats and prayed they were in Purgatory and not some Presbyterian graveyard.

• S7McCabe | Mar 10, 2011, 04:19 PM EST

  My son Patrick did our geneology and I am proud to say that one of my Grandmother's was born in Carrickmacross, County Monahan. Grandfather born here of Irish parents from Cavan. McNally and McCabe. I will be 70 on St. Patrick's Day and my white hair will be neon green. I have 3 Children, Mike, Patrick, and Mary, of course. I've been to Ireland and did no tourist towns. We met the real people of Ireland. I left my sins there in confession and went to Mass in the Church where Grandma was Baptised. I am an IRISH AMERICAN and proud of it. No beer for me. Dad taught us to drink a good Irish whiskey straight up. So, he was right but he forgot to tell us about the headache. LOL I don't need any tests. I've got the birth certificate from Dublin. I can have dual citizenship, if I want and the paper work is finished to do just that!

• shenanigans.tri | Mar 10, 2011, 03:29 PM EST

  I got 28 points but I don't drink Guinness at all or any other beverage of the kind! haha! My father would knock my block off if I took a drink. What would I get then??? Or should I ask! :)

• LouGuyt | Mar 10, 2011, 03:10 PM EST

  As for #8, there were NEVER any snakes in Ireland.

• CitizenWhy | Mar 10, 2011, 02:53 PM EST

  Actually, St. Patrick tried to import snakes to Ireland. When that did not work, he decided to take credit for banishing them. Typical foreigner out to hoodwink the gullible natives.

• fedupirish | Mar 10, 2011, 01:52 PM EST

  Snakes, St. Patrick? You can do better.

• Irishjule | Mar 10, 2011, 01:51 PM EST

  I think the "snakes" that St. Patrick banished were the pagan beliefs and rituals that he replaced with Christianity.

• Liamkeyes | Mar 10, 2011, 01:13 PM EST

  No! No! No! St. Patrick did not banish the snakes from Ireland. There were no snakes to begin with. It probably refers to "Ne'er do wells and wasters and dossers" in other words, snakes was an apt description. Upon reflection, over Fifteen hundtred years later, it seems that they are appearing in Ireland again.

• cillowen | Mar 10, 2011, 12:59 PM EST

  how dare you put some inane challenge before me. Joyce was the only one that I guessed at. 100% then.

• tomgallagher | Mar 10, 2011, 12:56 PM EST

  Because St. Patrick banished them..LMAO. Give me a break.

• dickmac | Mar 10, 2011, 12:06 PM EST

  Your answer to Why there are no snakes in Ireland I disagree with.Science states that the ecology does not support them back to the Ice Age. The word serpent or snake, is all through the Bible and refers to Sinners not snakes. Do you think that a snake (serpent) really spoke to Eve and told her to eat the apple!Bye bye what was His real name ?

• SeamusMor | Mar 10, 2011, 10:52 AM EST

  27! I want a full glass!

• connemaraman | Mar 10, 2011, 09:54 AM EST

  your quiz is wrong , fine geal is in power now in coalition with labour

• antoman | Mar 10, 2011, 09:44 AM EST

  Sir Walter Raleigh gave Queen Elizabeth's cook some potatoe's from the New Land to prepare for a banquet that evening.The cook considering the potatoe's as merely roots cast them aside and instead prepared the stem and leaves of the plant.The leaves are poisonous and he may well have killed the Queen and her court were it not that the pot was dropped in transit from the kitchen to the table.

• Irishlassred | Mar 10, 2011, 09:06 AM EST

  This is the SAME "quiz" as last year - come on now. I'm 2nd generation Irish and I nailed the answers. Dig a bit harder AND use spell/grammer check: What do we have no snakes in Ireland? Don't you mean - why not what? This is why people trash the Irish - check your work! That's what the nuns drummed into me.