Facts about Ireland
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Ireland has won the Nobel prize for literature on four occasions with George Bernard Shaw, William
Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney.
Irish aviation fact = Shannon became the worlds first duty free airport in 1947
There is no death penalty in Ireland.
Ireland is a neutral state and is not a member of N.A.T.O.
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
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