Portal:Ireland/Did you know/18


 * ...that Limerick city was besieged three times in the 17th century?
 * ...Irish Times journalist Arthur Quinlan has interviewed every US president since Harry Truman?
 * ...that gas bubbles travel downwards in a pint glass of Guinness ale?
 * ...The Wanderings of Oisin, published in 1889, was Yeats' first publication outside of magazines, immediately winning his reputation as a significant poet?
 * ...that Irish songwriter Christy Moore wrote a comic song about the building of the Knock Airport, which transports hundreds of pilgrims to and from the Roman Catholic shrine at Knock, declaring, "I've never seen a miracle like the airport up in Knock"?
 * ...that, unlike oft-violent hurling, its female variant, camogie, forbids any unnecessary physical contact?