The Leprechaun is an elusive but enduring inhabitant of rural Ireland. Visit The Leprechaun Watch for information on what it takes to see a leprechaun - and what to do if you do! Tell us what you have seen!

Samuel Beckett, linguist, cricketer and literary Nobel laureate, wrote a novel entitled 'Malone Dies'.

Sweet Molly Malone, affectionately known in Dublin as 'the tart with the cart', is one of the most famous Irish 'Malones'.

Gooseberry crumble (tart, but sweet, but not a tart) is a filling dessert made using readily available hedgerow fare.

Irish legends and more readily useful knowledge would have been passed on throughout the many hedge schools of Ireland, which developed due to the eighteenth century Penal Laws.

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