What is a shamrock?
St Patrick’s Day, 17 March, erupts in a sea of green, sprinkled with shamrocks. But what is a shamrock?
The story is that the druids held the shamrock as a sacred plant because of its three leaves – three being the magic number in druidism. So don’t get confused; it’s not a four-leaf clover.
When St Patrick arrived in Ireland from Wales he used the handy shamrock to illustrate the holy trinity of Christianity.
Show me a shamrock
We most often see the shamroc…
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