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4 days ago · 1. It’s One of the Least Altered Interiors of the Fifth Avenue Gilded Age Mansions Still Standing. If you take a look at the blocks between within this stretch of the Metropolitan Museum Historic...
3 days ago · The Orange Order was founded by Ulster Protestants in County Armagh in 1795, during a period of Protestant–Catholic sectarian conflict, as a fraternity sworn to maintain the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. The all-island Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland was established in 1798.
2 days ago · Public Domain. The Bram Stoker Society heard how Dublin-born Stoker's mother's tales of the 1832 cholera epidemic, which killed 1,500, affected her horror-writing son. A remarkable account of how ...
3 days ago · National Emblem: The Shamrock is considered the unofficial national flower of Ireland and has been a symbol of Irish heritage and culture for centuries. Summer Plant: The word ‘Shamrock’ comes from the Irish word ‘seamrog,’ which translates to ‘summer plant’. This term refers to the young clover that is commonly found in Ireland.
5 days ago · What is the Celtic shamrock? The Celtic shamrock is a three-leaved clover that is native to Ireland. It holds cultural significance and is often associated with Irish mythology and folklore. Which is luckier, a shamrock or a four-leaf clover?
5 days ago · Wearing green and shamrocks. A Saint Patrick's Day greeting card from 1907. On Saint Patrick's Day, it is customary to wear shamrocks, green clothing or green accessories. Saint Patrick is said to have used the shamrock, a three-leaved plant, to explain the Holy Trinity to the pagan Irish.
3 days ago · In 1946, George Wade asked his eldest daughter Iris and her husband Henry Straker Carryer to oversee a new factory in Portadown, Northern Ireland. Recently, Iris Carryer told me the story herself. ” In England, just after World War II , pressure was brought to bear on manufacturers to start new industries in areas of the United Kingdom that ...
