Portal:Ireland/Did you know/13


 * ...the Choctaw tribe in America donated $170 towards famine relief in Ireland in 1847?
 * ...that Sir Francis Beaufort, creator of the famed Beaufort scale, was born in Navan in County Meath? Or that his restored Georgian home in Navan was controversially demolished in the 1990s to build a road?
 * ...that Newgrange is a 5000 year old passage tomb pre-dating the pyramids and Stonehenge? The builders had astronomical knowledge to precisely illumininate the internal passages of the tomb during the winter solstice?
 * ...that the Ó Siochfhradha brothers were Irish Language teachers and writers from Dingle?