Portal:Ireland/Did you know/5


 * ...that when County Clare was created in 1565 it was moved from Munster to Connacht only to be returned to Munster again in 1602?
 * …that the MV Kerlogue, an Irish merchant ship, was attacked by both the Allied and Axis sides during World War II and rescued both sides. They rescued the Wild Rose of Liverpool and they rescued 168 Germans, 164 of who spent the rest of The Emergency interned in the Curragh internment camp?
 * ...that the College Historical Society of Trinity College, Dublin is the oldest undergraduate student society in the world?
 * ...that to the Romans, Scotia was another name for Hibernia, both meaning Ireland?