2) Ireland has the second highest number of lawyers per capita in the world, after the United States.
3) It was customary at ancient Irish weddings for a couple's clasped hands to be tied together by a rope as a visual representation of their union, which could explain why getting married is often referred to as "tying the knot."
4) Divorce was banned in Ireland from 1937 until 1995.
5) Today, the average number of children per family in Ireland is 2.7465. From the 1940's to the 1960's it was 10.
6) There are at least 5 different accents in Dublin alone.
7) J, K, Q, V, W, X, Y, and Z are not used in the Irish alphabet, which only has 18 letters.
8) The sparkling crystal ball that drops in New York's Time Square on New Year's Eve features hundreds of custom-designed crystals made by Ireland's famed Waterford Crystal.
9) The greatest distance between any two points in Ireland is 302 miles. However, if all of the stone walls from the country's neolithic and megalithic sites were lined up end to end, they would stretch for a quarter of a million miles.
10) When the Abbey Theatre opened in Dublin in 1904, part of the building that housed it had previously functioned as the city morgue.
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Love Always,
Amanda
All facts came from the book Little Facts About Well-Known Places - Ireland by David Hoffman.
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