Did you know that the only Irishman to be offered the Papacy refused it? That an Irish ship discovered the ghostly wreck of the Marie Celeste? ...that the first casualty of the Irish Civil War was a Free State sniper, smashed over the head with a teapot by an elderly Dublin woman? Or that the skull of a Corkman is the most sacred relic of the Ashanti tribe of West Africa?

All is now revealed in this illustrated collection of amusing, amazing and arcane facts relating to Ireland and the Irish.