With St. Patrick’s Day approaching, grocery stores and nurseries will be selling “shamrocks.” As someone of Irish descent, I ...

But if you're talking Saint Patrick's Day — and who, in the leadup to March 17, isn't? — then you're talking good Irish ...

AD, a missionary who earlier assumed the name Patricius, arrived in Ireland with the objective of converting the Celtic Irish to Christianity. Legend has it that he used a small, three-leafed plant to ...

If it is indeed wood sorrel which is traditionally ... frequently maligned late Charlie Haughey. The Irish government had long registered the shamrock as a national trademark, but this was ...

The shamrock is deeply rooted in Irish folklore. According to legend, Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, used the ...

Historically, a shamrock looks like a clover with three leaves. Though, shamrocks could be medic, wood sorrels, or true clovers since they all have leaves of three leaflets. Even among the Irish ...

The bowl of shamrock presented to US President Donald Trump by Irish premier Micheal Martin is part of a tradition dating back decades.

The tradition of the sitting Taoiseach presenting the sitting US President with a bowl of shamrock at The White House to mark St. Patrick's Day has origins in the Truman era. In 1952, Ireland’s ...