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3 unusual facts about Irish Hospitals' Sweepstake


Irish Hospitals' Sweepstake

In the 1981 episode of WKRP in Cincinnati titled Out To Lunch, Johnny and Venus hand out Irish Sweepstakes tickets to the employees of the station as gifts from a record company rep.

In her collection of poems titled Transformations (1971), Anne Sexton mentions the Irish Sweepstakes in the first stanza of "Cinderella."

John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl

In 1932 Atholl came to national attention when he launched a lottery in an attempt to stop money going abroad to the Irish Free State Hospitals Sweepstakes.



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