9 curisosidades sobre a Irlanda!!!

1. The Ukrainian sailor Iván Beshoff founded the famous “fish and chips shop” in Dublin in 1922. Now this restaurant is the most famous in Dublin.

2. The Irish alphabet has only 18 letters. There is no j, k, q, v, w, x, y and z.

3. It is estimated that the Irish diaspora* has 80 milions people around the world.

4. Ten Irish people have been awarded* with the Nobel prize: Williams Butler Yeats (literature), George Bernard Shaw (literature), Samuel Beckett (literature), Seamus Heaney (literature), Sean McBride (Peace), Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams (peace), John Hume and David Trimble (peace), Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (physics).

5. Samuel Beckett wrote the shortest play of the world. It takes 30 seconds.

6. The harp you can see in passports and in the Republic of Ireland stamps is an Harp of the XIV century, and it is kept in the Trinity College of Dublin. It is also known as the Brian Boru Harp.

7. Ireland has 5600km of coast, 14000km of rivers, 200000 Hectares of lakes and about 200 kinds of different fishes.

8. Ireland is known as the “Emerald Island” or 'Emerald Isle'.

9. The Shannon river has a long history, but it was drawn* for the first time by the cartographer Ptolomeo, in 330 BC.

And u? Do u know any curiosity about ireland...send to us...

*Dicionario:
diaspora= deslocamento, migracao, movimento migratorio
awarded= premiado
drawn= desenhado