Portal:Ireland/Did you know/11


 * ...that City Hall in Cork was paid for by the British government as a gesture of reconciliation during the 1930s to replace the one burned down by British forces during the War of Independence?
 * ...that the English phrase "By Hook or by Crook" is said to be derived from attempts to take Waterford in 1649 by Hook, meaning Hook Head on the east side of Waterford Harbour, or by Crook, a village on the west side of the harbour?
 * ...that Private James Daly, who led the Connaught Rangers mutiny in India during the War of Independence, was the last member of the British armed forces to be executed for mutiny?
 * ...that Dublin University Football Club, Trinity's rugby union club, established in 1854, has a strong claim to be the world's oldest football club?