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John "na Seamer" Burke, Baron Leitrim (Irish: Seán mac an Iarla a Búrc; / ˈ l iː t r əm /; LEE-trəm; died 1583), also known as John of the Shamrocks, was one of the notorious half-brothers called the meic an Iarla ('sons of the earl'), whose conflicts with each other and their father, Richard Burke, 2nd Earl of Clanricarde, caused devastation to south Connacht several times between the ...
A shamrock. A shamrock is a type of clover, used as a symbol of Ireland. Saint Patrick, one of Ireland's patron saints, is said to have used it as a metaphor for the Christian Holy Trinity. [1] The name shamrock comes from Irish seamróg ([ˈʃamˠɾˠoːɡ]), which is the diminutive of the Irish word seamair and simply means "young clover". [2]
The shamrock carries religious ties, while the four-leaf clover is considered a sign of luck due to its exceeding rarity. In fact, around one out of 10,000 clovers have four leaves.
Baron Leitrim was a title in the Peerage of Ireland which was first created in 1583 for Seán mac an Iarla a Búrc, and became extinct in 1591 on the death of his son, Redmond, second Baron.
Read on for the shamrock pin's rich history with the royal family. And this morning, in honor of St. Patrick's Day, the Duchess of Cambridge is participating in the century-old custom of ...
On 7 February 1893, Lord Lurgan married Lady Emily Julia Cadogan (1871–1909), daughter of George Cadogan, 5th Earl Cadogan, and Lady Beatrix Craven. Lady Lurgan attended the Devonshire House Ball of 1897 dressed as Alecto. [6] Before her death in 1909, they were the parents of one son: [1]
Lipton was born in a tenement in Crown Street [3] in the Gorbals, Glasgow, on 10 May 1848.His Ulster-Scots parents, Thomas Lipton senior and Frances Lipton (née Johnstone), were from the townland of either Shannock Green or Shankillk (Tonitybog), both near Roslea, in the south-east corner of County Fermanagh in Ulster, not far from Clones in County Monaghan.
Putting in at the Atlantic Basin Iron Works again in June, the ship was renamed USAHS Shamrock in August 1943. With the conversion complete, the new hospital ship left New York in September for Gibraltar and the Mediterranean where she operated locally, calling often at Oran, Palermo , the southern beaches of France, Bizerte , and Naples .