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

Shamrock farmer, Joe Sugrue has spent about four decades working at the Co. Kerry site best known for exporting to the US and ...

With March now upon us, St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner. But Leprechauns, green beer and pots of gold aside, there is another traditional symbol associated with the ...

It is wrong to think that shamrock only grows in the Emerald Isle. The plant or plants that we call shamrock grow all over Europe and beyond – even in Mother England – and are frequently ...

By most accounts, the original shamrock is thought to be either yellow clover (Trifolium dubium) or white clover (Trifolium repens). Both plants have three oval green leaflets with tiny ...

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 ...

One of the puppies, who's since earned the name Shamrock, was born with a dark green colored coat due to biliverdin, a bile pigment that sometimes mixes with a pup's amniotic fluid, causing a baby ...