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.

March 17th is the day of green, shamrocks, and leprechauns. But St. Patrick's Day is so much more than a color, and the many ...

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 ...

An Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s whirlwind trip to the White House to meet with President Trump has come to an end with the shamrock ceremony marking the occasion. The decades-old tradition has always ...

The bowl of shamrock presented to US President Donald Trump by Irish premier Micheal Martin is part of a tradition dating back decades. On Wednesday, Mr Trump received a “beautifully crafted ...