Quiz #15

SHS The Town I Know So Well
Welcome to Round 15 - STORY, SONG, & POETRY? Please answer the 10 questions below and click submit when done to see your score:

1. ‘And before I went to hire with him,
he was very nice to me,
he promised me eggs and bacon,
and he then shook hands with me.
Who is Hugo singing about?

2. Who wrote Crazy Dreams, Hard Station, Paradise is Near, Nothing but the same old story?                              


3. “I met with Napper Tandy,
And he took me by the hand,
And he said “how‘s poor old Ireland
And how does she stand?”
What place locally was associated with Napper Tandy?

4. Who wrote:-
“There is no other good enough,
To pay the prince of sin;
He only would unlock the gate
Of heaven, and let us in”?                  



                                                                 

5.In a poem about Strabane what was the Calibar?

6. What locally-born person of note wrote ‘Bards of the Gael & Gall’  ‘The Easter Sedulius’, ‘Modern Ireland’ and ‘History of Land Tenure & Land Classes in Ireland’?                      

7. “In Tyrone among the bushes, where the Finn and Mourne run
where my heart was gay and merry, recked then not of care and toil, ….among the field and meadows, fair by Mourne winding way,or the slopes of Knockavoe, bedecked heather brown, that rises o’er the Mourne shore.. “ Who wrote these words in exile?

8. Who was the bold Raparee acclaimed by William Collins?                                                                                                                                  

9. Who would I be if I fancied Martha?

10. Though my home is in the valley
Sure my mind is in the hills,
I see the roadside chapel,
On the way to …………..
The bridge which spans the river,
A river famed in song,
Where boys yet go a-fishing,
When the water’s running strong.
This poem by Joseph McCrossan describes a journey to what local place?                      

Comment (1)

  1. Vincent J. Doherty

    These quizes are hugely enjoyable and much appreciated by a man who left the town many years ago and doesn’t know as much about it and its people as he should. Keep them coming !

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