It's not for certain which plant is the true shamrock, but you can grab a piece of any clover and stick it in your lapel or hair on St. Patrick's Day and not be far wrong.
what do you mean the ''true shamrock'' ? The shamrock is like a four leaf clover but with three instead often found in ireland - i have lots in my garden! it was used by St. Patrick to represent the holy trinity.
Oh God, you sound like my father " look It up." I hated that condescending answer when HE COULD HAVE TAKEN THE Time to explain a word to his daughter Quality teaching time. He was So lazy. PROJECTION.
Why not just answer his/her question ? Why be demeaning?
It is just a clover that mutated into a four leafed one. They are rare like one blue eye and one brown. The clover has three lobes, a shamrock is a so called lucky clover because it is so rare it has four lobes. Big deal. I never searched for one -I knew the odds. but my dim friend wasted time doing that.
We're not "pretending" to be Irish. I'm sick and tired of native Irish intentionally misunderstanding how Americans refer to our heritage. Almost every family in the US came from somewhere else, which is unusual. When we say "I'm Irish," we're not claiming equal Irishness to you. We're saying "My ancestors came here from Ireland." And everyone knows this is what we're saying, but Europeans absolutely refuse to pass on an opportunity to complain about American culture.
If all your ancestors came from Ireland you are just as Irish by blood as they are but as they told me at 18 " the best of them left.". In my opinion the most enterprising and dynamic got on that ship for Ellis Island. My grandfather was gorgeous and left at 17! He was Great!
Actually both those questions could be nixed in favour of Yeats and THE ACTUAL TRADITIONAL Irish Airline like all the other Jetpunk official country airlines, KLM, Qantas, ALITALIA,ELAL, Lufthansa,Aer Lingus is THE OFFICIAL IRISH AIRLINE and less demeaning. But bigotry against the Irish is still alive and well. Instead of two alcohol questions and the non official airline, Yeats arguably the greatest poet ever and aer Lingus the actual official airline of Ireland are missing. But We have to name 32 Shakespeare plays for the history badge.
I'm from the midlands of Ireland County laois to be exact and i'm sat here at 2am moderately drunk on a wednesday night drinking a can of guinness after playing poker in the local pub and winning a cool 200 quid and this quiz has brought a great smile to my face me and my mum took it i got 20/20 and mum 19/20 thanks to the quizzer who made this made my drunk little night. FYI i don't drink every night just coincidental
Only ones I could think of were glenfiddich and glen talloch... but those were both whisky's not whiskey's (from scotland not ireland). I am not a whisk(e)y drinker so I was very proud I even knew those ! And spelled them right ! Haha. I have heard of jameson, but I was nowhere near remembering it.
My South Uist Papa was more Irish culturally than my Irish American maternal Grandparents. Although they blended racially and religiously which is the best.
Whistled like a Peruvian, taught me Gaelic, and all the names are pronounced as Spanish. Any other Highlanders and Islanders run into this?
Mary Kennedy is a Isle of Canna name.
Pure Gaelic speaker whose family fought against the US for Mexico.
The protestant Sullivans next door chanted 'Ruaridh get your dory, the herrings in the bay.' to be mean.
I love Belleek porcelain, too. My son brought me a nice piece years ago from his study-abroad semester in Ireland - I guess it's made in Northern Ireland, actually, but it's still Irish.
Patrick's birthplace is not known, but the consensus is that he was born somewhere in Britain. He did his ministry in Ireland though, and that's where he was loved. Kind of like how Obama was born in Kenya, but he made his mark in the US.
Everyone would have to learn English anyway, just like on the continent or in Asia or Latin America. It's the de facto business language. At least this way, it's native and has a very pleasant lilt to those not native to the island.
Languages have been displaced by the languages of incoming elites and conquerors everywhere and since forever, there's nothing unique about Ireland's experience (the people who brought the Celtic languages to our islands also displaced existing languages!).
I could be wrong and most definitely incomplete, but first word coming to mind is the picts. Can't be bothered to look it up at the moment. But most likely will, later this week. I hate to have something lingering in my mind, now what exactly was it..
i fly with ryanair a lot and i've never had that bad of an experience :O except once but the plane was totally packed full of annoying passengers so it wasn't their fault
An Irish quiz without the greatest poet of all time W.B. Yeats?! I think to be fair Aer Lingus should be the question not Ryan Air. Every country has a hilariously pathetic airline like Ryan Air. Easy Jet from the UK is even worse; they transport or deport CRIMINALS on passenger flights.
Why not just answer his/her question ? Why be demeaning?
Whistled like a Peruvian, taught me Gaelic, and all the names are pronounced as Spanish. Any other Highlanders and Islanders run into this?
Mary Kennedy is a Isle of Canna name.
Pure Gaelic speaker whose family fought against the US for Mexico.
The protestant Sullivans next door chanted 'Ruaridh get your dory, the herrings in the bay.' to be mean.
Everybody, and now my s.o., sent money home.
Who went for a swim in a lake /
Then a man in a punt /
Stuck a pole in her ear /
And said 'you can't swim here, it's dangerous'
"There was a young lady from Bude..."
Whose Limericks stopped at line 2."
(I think that was by Tim Vine)
Just wondering - do they get featured in different languages?
none...
If you're Irish, then none.
However, Galway Crystal should be accepted.