Many music fans like to test their knowledge with puzzles and quizzes so we thought we’d provide a little light diversion with these brainteasers.
You’ll find anagrams hiding the names of top songs and performers. And we also have quotes from songs and great Irish writers. Can you identify them?
The puzzles vary from the easy to the fiendishly difficult so you’re sure to find some that will challenge your skills.
Which princes of Irish music are hiding in
LICENCED TRUTH
Clue? A loud and heavenly sound!
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Great Irish song lyrics
Enquirin’ for the rogue, they said my Connacht brogue
Can you complete the line?
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Which song is hiding in
EVEN NUNS THINK DREGS
Clue? A week’s hard drinking.
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Great Irish song lyrics
If my true love she were gone,
Then I’d surely find another.
Can you complete the couplet?
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Which great Irish musicians are hiding in
TEACH FINE HITS
Clue? Ancient rulers of Ireland.
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Quote from an Irish classic – can you complete the line:
There was Slugger O’Toole who was drunk as a rule.
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Which song could hide in a
DORKY OLD INCUBATOR
Clue? A hard way to an Irish city.
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Great Irish song lines:
Old age has laid her hands on me, cold as a fire of ashy coal.
Can you complete the line?
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Surely this Irish songstress would not
ANNOY BARMEN
Clue? From Clannad to solo star.
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Great lyrics from Easter Rising 1916:
Twas better to die ‘neath an Irish sky’ …
from which song?
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Which famous Irish band are hiding
HIRSUTE BLEND
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Can you complete the line?
I did put my head to a cask of brandy.
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Which riotous Irish song can you make out of
WEAKENING FANS
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Can you complete the line?
One sang high and the other sang low
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Which Irish highwayman song is hiding in
HA! JEER WHY I STINK
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