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.
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 ...