Irish Science, Arts and Culture

Science Arts And Culture

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  1. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The Irish Free State made their international debut at the ______ Summer Olympics.
  2. Complete the sentence about Roy Keane with the correct year: At the ______ FIFA World Cup, he played in every Republic of Ireland game.
  3. Complete the sentence about Packie Bonner with the correct year: True to his word, Blake tore up Bonner's Finn Harps contract, without him ever making a competitive appearance for the club, and Bonner…
  4. Complete the sentence about Jack Charlton with the correct year: In ______, Leeds United supporters voted Charlton into the club's greatest XI.
  5. Complete the sentence about Robbie Keane with the correct year: Keane moved to Liverpool in July ______ but he spent only six months at the club before returning to Tottenham, where he was made first…
  6. Complete the sentence about Liam Brady with the correct year: Brady started his career at Arsenal, moving to London to join the side on schoolboy forms in ______, at the age of 15.
  7. Complete the sentence about Shay Given with the correct year: Given began his career at Celtic; however, he never made a first-team appearance and joined Blackburn Rovers on a free transfer in ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Shay Given with the correct year: On 1 February ______, Given joined Manchester City for £6 million on a four-and-a-half-year contract.
  9. Complete the sentence about Italia '90 with the correct year: The ______ FIFA World Cup was the 14th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams.
  10. Complete the sentence about Italia '90 with the correct year: Teams representing 116 national football associations entered and qualification began in April ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Italia '90 with the correct year: The ______ World Cup is widely regarded as one of the poorest World Cups in terms of the games.
  12. Complete the sentence about League of Ireland with the correct year: The League of Ireland was founded in ______ as a single division known as the A Division.
  13. Complete the sentence about Shelbourne F.C. with the correct year: Shelbourne Football Club was formed in ______ in the Ringsend area of Dublin by a group of men led by James Rowan, a general labourer…
  14. Complete the sentence about Bohemian F.C. with the correct year: Bohemians dropped their amateur ethos in ______ and won two League titles, two FAI Cups, and two League cups during the 1970s.
  15. Complete the sentence about Cork City F.C. with the correct year: The club was founded and elected to the League of Ireland in ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about Irish Open with the correct year: The first Irish Open in ______ was played at Portmarnock Golf Club from 16 to 18 August.
  17. Complete the sentence about Pádraig Harrington with the correct year: In his final appearance, in ______, his team won the Walker Cup for the Great Britain & Ireland team.
  18. Complete the sentence about Graeme McDowell with the correct year: McDowell was born on 30 July ______ in Portrush, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and played with Rathmore Golf Club since he was eig…
  19. Complete the sentence about Graeme McDowell with the correct year: As a senior with the Blazers in ______, McDowell won six of twelve college events and the Haskins Award, given to the outstanding col…
  20. Complete the sentence about Graeme McDowell with the correct year: McDowell turned professional in ______, and won that season's Volvo Scandinavian Masters, which was only his fourth start on the Euro…
  21. Complete the sentence about Darren Clarke with the correct year: Clarke was born in Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, and in ______ he played collegiate golf at Wake Forest University in the…
  22. Complete the sentence about Punchestown Festival with the correct year: Punchestown Races were reorganised and reconstituted as "Kildare and National Hunt Steeplechases" in ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about Galway Races with the correct year: The first racing festival held in Ballybrit was a two-day event with the first race meeting on Tuesday, 17 August ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Galway Races with the correct year: The pub underneath the Corrib Stand, built in ______, was for many years the longest bar in the world.
  25. Complete the sentence about Irish Grand National with the correct year: The event was established in ______, and the inaugural running was won by a horse called Sir Robert Peel.
  26. Complete the sentence about Irish Grand National with the correct year: In the early part of its history it was often won by horses trained at the Curragh, and there were ten such winners by ______.
  27. Complete the sentence about Irish Grand National with the correct year: The first to complete the double was Ascetic's Silver, the winner of the latter version in ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Irish Grand National with the correct year: The Irish Grand National was sponsored by Irish Distillers under various titles for many years up to ______.
  29. Complete the sentence about Katie Taylor with the correct year: In ______, he became the Irish senior light heavyweight champion.
  30. Complete the sentence about Michael Carruth with the correct year: And, on the day of his return to Ireland, local pubs dropped the price of beer to that of ______.
  31. Complete the sentence about Michael Carruth with the correct year: Carruth turned professional in ______ after taking leave from his job as a soldier in the Irish Army.
  32. Complete the sentence about Sonia O'Sullivan with the correct year: O'Sullivan's first major international competition was the ______ European Championships at Split, where she finished 11th in the 30…
  33. Complete the sentence about Ronnie Delany with the correct year: At CUS, Delany was first coached by Jack Sweeney, to whom he sent a telegram from Melbourne following his ______ Olympic gold medal, st…
  34. Complete the sentence about Ronnie Delany with the correct year: Delany's first achievement of note was reaching the final of the 800 metres at the ______ European Athletics Championships in Bern, his…
  35. Complete the sentence about Sean Kelly with the correct year: Kelly won one Grand Tour, the ______ Vuelta a España, and four green jerseys in the Tour de France.
  36. Complete the sentence about Sean Kelly with the correct year: When the FICP rankings became established in March ______, Kelly was the first cyclist to be ranked World No.1, a position he held for a r…
  37. Complete the sentence about Sean Kelly with the correct year: In September ______, a delegation from the newly formed Carrick Wheelers Road Club visited the Christian Brothers Secondary School, where…
  38. Complete the sentence about Sean Kelly with the correct year: On Tuesday, 4 August ______, aged 14, Sean competed in his first race at Kennedy Terrace, Carrickbeg, County Tipperary, part of Carrick-on…
  39. Complete the sentence about Eddie Irvine with the correct year: Irvine was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in ______ with Ferrari, and won four Grands Prix across ten seasons.
  40. Complete the sentence about Ireland at the Olympics with the correct year: The Irish Olympic Council was formed in ______ during the provisional administration prior to the formal establishment of the…
  41. Complete the sentence about James Joyce with the correct year: In ______, he met his future wife, Nora Barnacle, and they moved to mainland Europe.
  42. Complete the sentence about James Joyce with the correct year: Except for an eight-month stay in Rome working as a correspondence clerk and three visits to Dublin, Joyce lived there until ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about James Joyce with the correct year: Ulysses was first published in Paris in ______, but its publication in the United Kingdom and the United States was prohibited owing to i…
  44. Complete the sentence about Dubliners with the correct year: First published in ______, Dubliners presents a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle-class life in and around Dublin in the early twentie…
  45. Complete the sentence about Dubliners with the correct year: The London house of Grant Richards agreed to publish it in ______.
  46. Complete the sentence with the correct year: On 10 June ______, Joyce met Nora Barnacle for the first time.
  47. Complete the sentence about Finnegans Wake with the correct year: The final title was revealed only when the book was published on 4 May ______.
  48. Complete the sentence about Finnegans Wake with the correct year: On 10 March ______, he wrote a letter to his patron, Harriet Shaw Weaver: "Yesterday I wrote two pages—the first I have since the fina…
  49. Complete the sentence about Finnegans Wake with the correct year: Joyce completed another four short sketches in July and August ______, while holidaying in Bognor.
  50. Complete the sentence about The Picture of Dorian Gray with the correct year: The Picture of Dorian Gray is an ______ philosophical fiction and Gothic horror novel by Irish author Oscar Wilde.
  51. Complete the sentence about The Picture of Dorian Gray with the correct year: In ______, Oscar Wilde met Frances Richards in Ottawa, where he visited her studios.
  52. Complete the sentence about The Picture of Dorian Gray with the correct year: In ______, Richards moved to London where she renewed her acquaintance with Wilde and painted his portrait.
  53. Complete the sentence about The Picture of Dorian Gray with the correct year: In December, ______, I gave a sitting to a Canadian artist who was staying with some friends of hers and mine in South Ken…
  54. Complete the sentence about Bram Stoker with the correct year: While a theatre critic, Stoker founded the "Dublin Sketching Club" in ______, which dealt mostly with art collections.
  55. Complete the sentence about Bram Stoker with the correct year: Stoker was born on 8 November ______ at 15 Marino Crescent, Clontarf, in Dublin, Ireland.
  56. Complete the sentence about Dracula with the correct year: Dracula is an ______ Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.
  57. Complete the sentence about Dracula with the correct year: Following the novel's publication in May ______, some reviewers praised its terrifying atmosphere while others thought Stoker included too mu…
  58. Complete the sentence about Jonathan Swift with the correct year: In ______, he was appointed the dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and was given the sobriquet "Dean Swift".
  59. Complete the sentence about Jonathan Swift with the correct year: In ______, Swift moved to Trim, County Meath, and many of his major works were written during this time.
  60. Complete the sentence about Jonathan Swift with the correct year: Jonathan Swift was born on 30 November ______ in Dublin in the Kingdom of Ireland.
  61. Complete the sentence about Gulliver's Travels with the correct year: By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, is a ______ satirical prose novel by the Anglo-Irish wri…
  62. Complete the sentence about Samuel Beckett with the correct year: During his early career, Beckett worked as a literary critic and commentator, and in ______ he took up a role as a lecturer in Dublin.
  63. Complete the sentence about Samuel Beckett with the correct year: In ______, he shared the inaugural Prix International with Jorge Luis Borges.
  64. Complete the sentence about Waiting for Godot with the correct year: In a ______ public poll conducted by London's Royal National Theatre, Waiting for Godot was voted as "the most significant English…
  65. Complete the sentence about Waiting for Godot with the correct year: The English-language version of the play premiered in London in ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about Waiting for Godot with the correct year: Beckett said Caspar David Friedrich's ______ painting Two Men Contemplating the Moon was a major inspiration for the play.
  67. Complete the sentence about George Bernard Shaw with the correct year: Born in Dublin, Shaw moved to London in ______; he struggled to establish himself as a writer and novelist, and embarked on a rig…
  68. Complete the sentence about George Bernard Shaw with the correct year: Shaw had been writing plays for years before his first public success, Arms and the Man in ______.
  69. Complete the sentence about George Bernard Shaw with the correct year: In ______ he provided the screenplay for a filmed version of Pygmalion, for which he received an Academy Award.
  70. Complete the sentence about Brendan Behan with the correct year: In ______, Behan's first play, The Quare Fellow, was produced in Dublin.
  71. Complete the sentence about Brendan Behan with the correct year: In ______, Behan's play in the Irish language, An Giall had its debut at Dublin's Damer Theatre.
  72. Complete the sentence about Brendan Behan with the correct year: Behan was born in the inner city of Dublin at Holles Street Hospital on 9 February ______ into an educated working-class family.
  73. Complete the sentence about Sean O'Casey with the correct year: As his interest in Irish nationalism grew, O'Casey joined the Gaelic League in ______ and learned the Irish language.
  74. Complete the sentence about Sean O'Casey with the correct year: In ______ Casey joined James Connolly's Socialist Party of Ireland.
  75. Complete the sentence about Sean O'Casey with the correct year: In March ______, he became General Secretary of Larkin's Irish Citizen Army, which would soon be run by James Connolly.
  76. Complete the sentence about J. M. Synge with the correct year: In ______, he moved to Paris, where he took up poetry and literary criticism and met Yeats, and later returned to Ireland.
  77. Complete the sentence about J. M. Synge with the correct year: Synge was born on 16 April ______, in Newtown Villas, Rathfarnham, County Dublin, the youngest of eight children of upper-middle-class Pr…
  78. Complete the sentence about Lady Gregory with the correct year: Despite this, in ______ she published A Phantom's Pilgrimage, or Home Ruin, an anti-Nationalist pamphlet against William Ewart Gladstone…
  79. Complete the sentence about Abbey Theatre with the correct year: The Abbey was the first state-subsidized theatre in the English-speaking world; from ______ onwards it received an annual subsidy from…
  80. Complete the sentence about Abbey Theatre with the correct year: Since July ______, the Abbey has been located at 26 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1.
  81. Complete the sentence about Abbey Theatre with the correct year: In April ______, the Fays gave three performances of Æ's play Deirdre and Yeats' Cathleen Ní Houlihan in St Theresa's Hall on Clarendon…
  82. Complete the sentence about Roddy Doyle with the correct year: Several of his books have been made into films, beginning with The Commitments in ______.
  83. Complete the sentence about Roddy Doyle with the correct year: Doyle was awarded the Booker Prize in ______ for his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
  84. Complete the sentence about Roddy Doyle with the correct year: In addition to teaching, Doyle, along with Seán Love, established a creative writing centre, "Fighting Words", which opened in Dublin in…
  85. Complete the sentence about Roddy Doyle with the correct year: Doyle attended University College Dublin, where he studied English and geography, and graduated with a BA degree in ______.
  86. Complete the sentence about Roddy Doyle with the correct year: The Snapper, made into a film in ______, focuses on Jimmy's sister, Sharon, who becomes pregnant.
  87. Complete the sentence about Colm Tóibín with the correct year: Colm Tóibín was born in ______ in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, in the southeast of Ireland.
  88. Complete the sentence about Colm Tóibín with the correct year: Following the foundation of the Irish Free State in ______, Tóibín's family favoured the Fianna Fáil political party.
  89. Complete the sentence about Colm Tóibín with the correct year: The city would later feature in some of Tóibín's early work: his first novel, ______'s The South, has two characters meeting in Barcelona…
  90. Complete the sentence about Sally Rooney with the correct year: In ______, her essay "Even If You Beat Me", about her time as the "top competitive debater on the continent of Europe", was seen by an a…
  91. Complete the sentence about Anne Enright with the correct year: Enright won the ______ Man Booker Prize for her fourth novel The Gathering.
  92. Complete the sentence about John Banville with the correct year: Banville began working as a sub-editor at The Irish Press in ______, and — subsequently — worked as a sub-editor at The Irish Times.
  93. Complete the sentence about Edna O'Brien with the correct year: In ______, O'Brien was elected to Aosdána by her fellow artists and honoured with the title Saoi.
  94. Complete the sentence about Frank McCourt with the correct year: In fall of ______ in the midst of the Great Depression, the family moved back to Ireland.
  95. Complete the sentence about C. S. Lewis with the correct year: According to Lewis's ______ memoir Surprised by Joy, he was baptized in the Church of Ireland but fell away from his faith during adolesc…
  96. Complete the sentence about C. S. Lewis with the correct year: In ______ Lewis married the American writer Joy Davidman; she died of cancer four years later at the age of 45.
  97. Complete the sentence about C. S. Lewis with the correct year: Lewis died on 22 November ______ of kidney failure, at age 64.
  98. Complete the sentence about Laurence Sterne with the correct year: While Vicar of Sutton-on-the-Forest, Yorkshire, he married Elizabeth Lumley in ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about Laurence Sterne with the correct year: In ______, he wrote an ecclesiastical satire A Political Romance, which embarrassed the church and was burned.
  100. Complete the sentence about Laurence Sterne with the correct year: Sterne died in ______ and was buried in the yard of St George's, Hanover Square.

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