2. The family name 'Kennedy' is Ó 'Cinnéide in Irish, which translates as 'rough-headed'.

3. Belfast Giants are the city's Ice Hockey team.

4. Torc Waterfall near Killarney in Kerry - a 'torc' is a metallic 3/4 neckband.

5. Jimmy Kennedy wrote the Teddy Bear's Picnic.

6. Dooish in Tyrone and Donegal share a name which in Irish means 'black hill' - dubhais. The Black Hills of Dakota are world-famous.

7. Ireland's largest 'folly', built near Belvedere House, Co Westmeath is called the 'Jealous Wall'. A folly is a building or architectural feature which has no practical purpose.

8. 'The pardon of Maynooth' was a massacre of those who surrendered Maynooth castle.