Foster’s Irish Oddities: A Miscellany of Strange Facts.
Author: FOSTER, Allen.
Publisher: Dublin: New Island, 2006. 161 pages. Hardback.
An addictive, fascinating book, packed with curious statistics, bewildering facts and quirky humour - a must read for anyone interested in Irish trivia.
Did you know?
The tallest twins (identical) ever recorded were the Knipe brothers (b. 1761) of Magherafelt, County Derry, who measured 7 ft 2 in.
Muckanaghederdauhaulia, County Galway, is the longest placename in ireland.
In preparation for the world Monopoly Championships in October 2000, Ireland’s Nigerian-born champion, Ekumdayo Badmus, changed his surname to O’Badmus to make it sound more ‘Irish’.
The world’s oldest known manuscript of the new testament is in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin.
In 1811, 70-year-old Cork man John Purcell earned a knighthood for killing four burglars with a carving knife.
In August 1926, Miss Anne Clarke of Raphoe, County Donegal single-handedly mowed, tied and stacked an acre of six-foot-high oats - at the age of 90!
The first pig to fly travelled over England with Irish pilot J.T.C. Moore-Brabazon in 1909.
Patrick and Eleanor Grady of Crookhaven, County Cork were born in the same house on the same day - 26 July 1700. They married on the same day, and 96 years later they both fell sick and died on the same day - leaving 96 descendants.
ISBN: 1905494408
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