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One of my favorite holidays, let the green beer flow! How many Irish MCF'rs do we have here?

I'm Scottish/Irish.

 

Anna top of the afternoon to all the Irish Monte Owners.
Hope you are having a fine Saint Paddy's Day. The day for the wearin'-'o-the-green!

I got a bit of the Old Sod in me from me daddy's side 'o the family!
So, I'll be takin' this opportunity to wish you all well and hope your dreams come true!

Happy St. Patrick's Day 2008
Rick Massey

 

I have some Irish, French and some German in me self.

 

Saints be praisin, tis St. Paddy's day again.

Here's to hoping the luck of the Irish is with you and your family.

I have Irish from my mother's side. Her father was Irish.

 

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Please educate me.

Isn't a shamrock a 4-leaf (lucky) clover?

WHY..... is it you always see a shamrock as 3-leaf clover?

 

The people who build the graphics prolly know nothing about the Irish culture.

 

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Irish Shamrocks and 4-Leaf Clovers
From David Beaulieu,
Your Guide to Landscaping.
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The thought of "Irish shamrocks" evokes visions of the green landscape of the Emerald Isle as surely as does St. Patrick's Day itself. But identifying a particular plant as the shamrock is a dubious practice, botanically speaking. If you have your heart set on making such an identification, you had better start looking for some 4-leaf clovers, because you'll need lots of luck! But ironically, 4-leaf clovers themselves are quite distinct from Irish shamrocks, for reasons that history makes clear.
The term "shamrock" derives from the Irish word, seamrog, which translates to "little clover." Rather vague, considering that there are many kinds of clovers -- and even more plants that can pass as clovers to the layman. Consequently, in St.


Four Leaf CloverEverything to do with Four Leaf Clover items.Yahoo.com[/align][/align]Patrick's Day celebrations a number of plants serve as Irish shamrocks. But there is no "real McCoy" that can claim to be the authoritative shamrock.

Even among the denizens of Ireland itself, there is no consensus that dubs one particular plant as the true Irish shamrocks, as Tippitiwitchet Cottage reports in a 1988 survey concerning shamrocks. The survey, conducted at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, revealed that when the Irish wear the "shamrock," it can be any one of four plants. Three of the plants are clovers, while the fourth is a clover-like plant known as "medick." All four are in the Pea family:

[ol][*]Lesser trefoil, or hop clover (Trifolium dubium): 46%.[*]White clover (Trifolium repens): 35%.[*]Black medick (Medicago lupulina): 7%.[*]Red clover (Trifolium pratense): 4%. [/ol]

Various members of the Wood Sorrel family (such as Oxalis acetosella) are also sold as shamrocks for St. Patrick's Day. These clover look-alikes are more easily cultivated as houseplants than is real clover, making them popular for interior decorating during St. Patrick's Day celebrations. But the wood sorrels are not even related to the four plants listed above. One would be quite justified at this point in asking, "What's the story here, how can such a diverse group of plants all be considered Irish shamrocks?" And there is, indeed, a story that accounts for the confusion ....

The Legend of St. Patrick and Irish Shamrocks

What medick, the wood sorrels and the true clovers all have in common is a trifoliate leaf structure, i.e., a compound leaf with three leaflets. The number 3, of course, is significant in t

 

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