Foster's Irish Oddities: A Miscellany of Strange Facts

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An addictive, fascinating book packed with curious statistics, bewildering facts and quirky humour - a must read for anyone interested in Irish trivia.

Did you know?

• In 1811, seventy-year-old Cork man John Purcell earned a knighthood for killing four burglars with a carving knife.
• In August 1926, Miss Anne Clarke of Raphoe, County Donegal, single-handedly mowed, tied and stacked an acre of six-foot high oats at the age of ninety!
• The first pig to fly travelled over England with Irish pilot J.T.C. Moore-Brabazon in 1909.
• Patrick and Eleanor Grady, of Crookhaven, County Cork were born in the same house on the same day (26 July 1700). They married on the same day, and ninety-six years later they both fell sick and died on the same day leaving ninety-six descendants.