Facts about Ireland
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The famous Titanic ship was built in Belfast.
Henry Ford of Ford Motor Company was the son of an Irish emigrant.
John Kennedy, the thirtyfifth President of the U.S.A.was born in Massachusetts in 1917. The Kennedy
family were descendants of Irish emigrants to the U.S.A. in the nineteenth century.
Kilkenny born architect James Hoban designed the White House and also the official residence of the
Irish president, Aras an Uachtarain.
Bushmills, Couny Antrim is the Worlds Oldest Whiskey Distillery based on the undisputed fact that a
seven year licence to distil dating from April 20th 1608 is attributed to the distillery. Located near the
village of Bushmills in Co. Antrim. It is though that distilling may have begun on the site as early as the
thirteenth century, but the first permit was granted by James VI and I to Sir Thomas Phillipps, a local
landowner, in 1608.
The home of Guinness is in Dublin.The famous Guinness Brewery at St