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Foster’s Irish Oddities is an addictive book packed with curious statistics, bewildering facts and quirky humour - a must read for anyone interested in Irish trivia!

Did you know?

•The Tallest Twins (identical) ever recorded were the Knipe brothers (b. 1761) of Magherafelt, County Derry, who measured 7 ft 2 in.
•Muckanaghederdauhaulia, County Galway, is the longest placename in Ireland.
•In 1811, 70-year-old cork man John Purcell earned a knighthood for killing four burglars with a carving knife.
•The first pig to fly travelled over England with Irish pilot J.T.C. Moore-Brabazon in 1909.
•The world's oldest known manuscript of the New Testament is in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin.
•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 90!

Praise for Foster’s Irish Oddities
‘Entertaining…short pieces on strange Irish facts, like an Irish Ripley’s Believe It Or Not’
Irish Independent
‘All my faves and more…Fabulous…a cheering little miscellany’
Val Stevenson, Fortean Times
‘The reader is certainly introduced here to some odd and strange facts…fun’
Tom Widger, Sunday Tribune
‘The kind of oddities that can be laughed over with friends down the local pub’
Roz Britton, Metro
‘Bearing in mind that we are boring and stuffy, this is the one we’d plump for’
Jeremy Addis, Books Ireland
‘Amazing…a remarkable book’
Drogheda Leader
‘If you like interesting Irish trivia and have a quirky sense of humour, then Allen Foster’s Foster’s Irish Oddities is a must read…very entertaining’
Sean P. Feeny, Donegal News
‘It is an ideal book for dipping into at random. It will supply you with a smile, a strange tale or some odd facts with which to impress friends in the pub’
Ireland’s Own
‘Packed with bewildering stories and quirky humour’
David Lowe, The Sun