Portal:Ireland/Did you know/12

...that Newfoundland, in eastern Canada, has a unique dialect of Irish, closely resembling the Irish spoken during the 16th to 17th centuries and called Newfoundland Irish?
...that in 1631 the entire population of the village of Baltimore, County Cork was kidnapped by Algerian pirates in what became known as the Sack of Baltimore?
...that the modern game of croquet was invented in Ireland in the 1830s?
...that the Guinness company once produced a Marmite-like yeast extract spread called Guinness Yeast Extract?