With St. Patrick’s Day approaching, grocery stores and nurseries will be selling “shamrocks.” As someone of Irish descent, I look forward to bringing home a plant from my ancestral homeland. Given my ...

March is National Irish American Heritage Month as well as National Craft Month. In addition, spring officially begins a few days after St. Patrick’s Day, and that means it is time to start planning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 17—My great-great-grandfather, John McCartney, was born in Pennsylvania in 1834, so he missed the potato famine that killed ...

Merriam-Webster defines a shamrock as “a small plant with three leaves on each stem that is the national symbol of Ireland”—not to be confused with the lucky four-leaf clover. Its history dates back ...

“An earlier version of the illustration associated with this article showed a four-leaf clover to symbolize Ireland, but the Irish shamrock is conventionally depicted as a trefoil. The image has been ...