26Leap Castle
When workers were renovating Ireland's Leap Castle, they found so many human remains impaled on wooden spikes within a wall that it took three cartloads to remove all of them.
27. The shortest St. Patrick's Day parade in the world takes place in Dripsey, Cork. The parade lasts just 100 yards and travels between the village's two pubs.
28. The 5th century Irish warlord known as Niall of the Nine Hostages has over 3 million direct male descendants. Men with common Irish surnames like O'Neil, O'Connor, O'Reilly are among his descendants.
29. In 2005, a man named Robert McCartney was murdered after a pub brawl in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The murder still remains unsolved due to all 71 of the possible witnesses claiming to be in the bathroom, leading the bathroom to be nicknamed the Tardis.
30. Ireland is the only country in the world with a musical instrument (Harp) as its national symbol.
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31Irish Potato Famine
During the Irish Potato Famine, the poor were given construction jobs, so they could earn food rather than receive it as a handout. However, to avoid taking jobs from other workers, these people built useless projects like roads in the middle of nowhere, and piers in the middle of bogs.
32. The government of Ireland declared a State of Emergency at the beginning of WWII, on the 2nd of September 1939, which wasn’t lifted until 1976. This event is known simply as “The Emergency”.
33. In Ireland, it had been a tradition to be given a pint of Guinness beer for a pint of donated blood, to replace the iron. However this program was cancelled in 2012.
34. The Irish last name prefix "Mac" means "son of" and the prefix "O" means "grandson of".
35. Marsh's Library in Dublin puts readers in cages to prevent them from walking off with rare books.
