B. If false, why is it false?

• 1. An eejit is an Irish fairy with a beard who has a pot of gold hidden at the end of a rainbow.
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  False – The Irish fairy is a leprechaun. An eejit is an idiot or a fool.


• 2. The ‘Emerald Isle’ is Ireland’s nickname.
• 
  True – Most people in the UK know this because Ireland has a lot of wet weather and the countryside has so many different colours of green.


• 3. Céad míle fáilte is a very common Irish expression to greet visitors. It means “a hundred thousand welcomes” in Gaelic.
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  True – (look at the video in part C for pronunciation)


• 4. A good craic is a very large crack.
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  False – Craic is a Gaelic word pronounced the same as a ‘crack’ but that means news, gossip, fun…


• 5. ‘It’s lashing’ means that someone is punishing you with a whip.
• 
  False – It means that it is raining really hard.


• 6. A lock-in happens in a pub.
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  True – There may even be spontaneous singing and dancing after-hours during a lock-in.


• 7. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars” was written by a non-Irish author.
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  False – It’s by the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde.

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