At last, a series that tells children what they want to know about Ireland, whether they are visiting on holiday, learning about Ireland at school, bored at the airport or want to learn more about their Irish heroes. Pick Your Brains about Ireland and find out its: Vital facts and figures * History in a nutshell * Local customs * Fabulous builidings and sights * Great inventors, artists, writers and scientists * Food and drink * Incredible festivals and the stories behind them * Sport * Good books and wicked websites * Phrases in gaelic such as ''my parents will pay!''.
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This book is packed with fascinating facts and stories from Ireland; its people, food, customs, language, history, sport, spectacular sights and sounds.
What do you know about:
The Viking Slayer of Clontarf
Irish monuments older than the Egyptian Pyramids
The inventor of the fiber optic, and why the sky is blue
Elbow music!
Gulliver's Travels and Count Dracula
The Father of the American Navy
A village ruled by a goat
"Acting the maggot" and "throwing the head"
Pick Your Brains and find out!
Mary O'Neill was born in Cork city and raised in Dublin, where she lived until 1988 when she moved to Oxford, UK. She has taught and written for the schools market for many years. She frequently returns to her home country of Irleand, has a twelve-year-old daughter and a rapidly ageing Irish husband.
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