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QUESTION: Name the Olympian and Hollywood star who won a Tailteann Games medal in a pond in the Phoenix Park in 1924.

THE Tailteann Games go back a few years.

Originally held from the sixth century BC until 1168, the year before the Normans came, they were a cultural and sporting festival at the Hill of Tara. The events were supposedly initiated by Lugh Lamhfhada in honour of his mother, Queen Tailte, as burial games.