Luck of the Irish!

My daughter is great at finding four leaf clovers--she took that feature from her grandmother--just walking in a field she would spy that perfect clover without out looking hard! What a talent--guess they always had the "luck of the Irish" 

What makes your Knitting Irish?

When we packed up my mother's house to move her to Assisted Living, I found several lovely
pieces of jewelry; amongst the rings, she had what I called a Celtic knot ring that I wear on my
pinkie finger.  I always wondered what the symbol represented.   I found this website that explains the meaning--

History of soda bread

Though soda bread is now most commonly attributed to Ireland, the first people to use soda to leaven their bread was the American Indians. ... Irish Soda Bread was first created in the late 1830s, when the first iteration of baking soda—or bicarbonate soda—was introduced to the U.K

How About a recipe?

and how about some Corned beef and cabbage to go with that bread?

recipe for corned beef

and why corned beef and cabbage on St Paddy's Day?

Irish workers free dinner

The Irish builders would still have to buy a few drinks in order to get their supposedly free dinner, but the main reason that the corned beef and cabbage dinner is thought to be of Irish origin is not that they were enticed by a traditional meal so much as a cheap meal