| 1) Which Irish writer wrote Borstal Boy about his period of incarceration? |
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JM Synge
Brendan Behan
John B Keane
WB Yeats
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| 2) Fergal Keane, famous for his 'Letters...' series of books (as read on Radio 4 ) has also written about the Rwandan conflict. What was the title of this volume? |
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Rivers of Blood
Season of Blood
Time for Blood
A Bloody Journey
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| 3) Bloomsday, celebrated every year in Dublin by Joyceans, follows the route taken by Leopold Bloom through the streets of that city in Ulysses. On what date does this event occur? |
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June 16th
December 12th
September 11th
April 10th
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| 4) Which writer famously wrote this of his home city: 'How sick, sick, sick I am of Dublin! It is the city of failure, of rancour and of unhappiness. I long to be out of it.'? |
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James Joyce
William Trevor
Patrick Kavanagh
WB Yeats
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| 5) Felicia's Journey (recently adapted into a film by Atom Egoyan, starring Bob Hoskins) follows the journey of a naove, country-girl from rural Ireland to Birmingham in search of her 'Johnny'. Who wrote the book? |
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Marian Keyes
William Trevor
Nuala O'Faolain
John Banville
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| 6) Which Irish writer, responsible for editing The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction, was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize for his bleak tale of family division, The Blackwater Lightship? |
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Colm Toibin
Benedict Kiely
John Haywood
Frank McCourt
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| 7) Bram Stoker brought one of horror's most enduring (if not endearing) figures to life with the invention of Dracula. Born and raised in Dublin, Stoker enjoyed a career prior to that of being a novelist. What was he? |
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A dentist
An accountant
A lawyer
A civil servant
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| 8) Irish novelist, dramatist, and newspaper columnist Flann O'Brien also wrote under the name of Myles na gCopaleen - neither of these, however, was the name he was born with. What was it? |
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Francis De La Court
Liam Brown
Sean O'Hegarty
Brian O'Nolan
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| 9) Which poet immortalised the 'stony grey soil' of Monaghan? |
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Louis McNiece
Patrick Kavanagh
Fran Breen
JM Synge
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| 10) Which Irish poet and Noble Prize winner for Literature was responsible for the recent Whitbread Prize winnning translation of Beowulf? |
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Louis McNiece
Seamus Heaney
Catherine Murphy
Carol Ann Duffy
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