| TIGERMOTH | Followed Celtic in Ireland in the boom years with Dublin girlfriend - one of the flighty de Havillands? (5,4) |
| THEQUEENOFSHEBA | Solomon's dusky girlfriend (1 Kings 10:4) (3,5,2,5) |
| MOULTS | Casts off Dublin girlfriends having unusual sides |
| DARTS | The game of the flighty set |
| RABE | "In the Boom Boom Room" playwright |
| OMAHA | In the boom, a happy city on the Missouri (5) |
| ROAR | Raised floor on both sides back in The Boom (4) |
| DANIELOCONNELL | Roman Catholic political leader in Ireland in the first half of the 19th Century (6,8) |
| PENAL | The _____ Laws were anti-Catholic measures imposed in Ireland in the 17th and 18th Centuries. (5) |
| STEEPLECHASE | Which type of horse-racing event originated in Ireland in the 18th century when horses were raced cross-country from church to church? (12) |
| RAPPAREE | A bandit or irregular soldier in Ireland in the 17th century (8) |
| MAYO | County in the West of Ireland, in the province of Connacht, County _ (4) |
| GREATFAMINE | This tragedy started in Ireland in 1845 and ended in 1849. It was caused by late blight, which ruined the potato crop, and it resulted in about one million deaths and mass emigration. |
| GAELTACHT | Any of the regions in Ireland in which Irish Gaelic is the vernacular speech |
| CLARE | County in the Republic of Ireland, in the province of Munster (5) |
| TIPPERARY | County in the Republic of Ireland, in the province of Munster (9) |
| QUAICH | The Centenary - is given to the winner of Scotland v Ireland in the Six Nations (6) |
| COUNTYTOWN | One of the six counties that form Northern Ireland, in the north-east (6,4) |
| VINCENTTHOMASBUCKLEY | Who, born in Romsey, Victoria, founded the Committee for Civil Rights in Ireland in 1969 and was gra |
| ORANGEORDER | The _ _, a society founded in Ireland in 1795 to uphold the Protestant religion (6,5) |
