Portal:Ireland/Did you know/12


 * ...that Newfoundland, in eastern Canada, has a unique dialect of Irish, closely resembling the Irish spoken during the 16th to 17th centuries and called Newfoundland Irish?
 * ...that in 1631 the entire population of the village of Baltimore, County Cork was kidnapped by Algerian pirates in what became known as the Sack of Baltimore?
 * ...that the modern game of croquet was invented in Ireland in the 1830s?
 * ...that the Guinness company once produced a Marmite-like yeast extract spread called Guinness Yeast Extract?