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

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 ...

The facts are that the first four letters of the word shamrock are brutally and cruelly accurate. The facts are that there is no evidence at all that St. Patrick used the delicate little plant as ...

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

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 you’ve ever seen a floral display around St. Patrick’s Day, then you’ve likely seen an Oxalis triangularis plant in all ...