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 ...

I hope you have a bottle of good strong Irish whiskey stashed away all ready to fortify you for the St. Patrick's Day parade and for the ritual drowning of the shamrock through the big day.

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

The three-leaved shamrock is a popular symbol of Ireland and St Patrick as it grows all over the country, and takes its name from early Irish word seamair óg, or 'young clover'. Its association ...