1. Snooker champion Alex Higgins' nickname was 'Hurricane' Higgins. 2. Eels are the main fish catch in Lough Neagh. 3. Edward Carson was first elected to Parliament for the constituency of Dublin University. 4. Philosopher Edmund Burke published Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful in 1756. 5. James Joyce and partners began Dublin's first cinema, the Volta in 1909. 6. Scrabo Tower, Newtownards, Co. Down, was dedicated 3rd Marquis of Londonderry, 1851. 7. The Hill of Tara was damaged in the 19th century by archaeologist digging for The Ark of the Covenant. 8. Lady Wilde, mother to Oscar, wrote poetry under the pen-name Speranza.

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