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unusual facts about The Shamrock


The Shamrock

Several of the characters and airs were re-used in O'Keefe's more successful 1783 play The Poor Soldier.



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Bedford Park, Bronx

Among the national symbols one may see strolling the neighborhood include the double-headed eagle (the emblem of Albania), the icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe (sacred to Catholic Mexicans), the shamrock of Ireland, the Arabic calligraphy of the shahadah (the Muslim profession of faith), or the coquí of Puerto Rico.

Charles Handy

Among the ideas he has advanced are the "portfolio worker" and the "Shamrock Organization" (in which professional core workers, freelance workers and part-time/temporary routine workers each form one leaf of the "Shamrock").

Durban Light Infantry

The garland which surrounds the coloured badge comprises the Thistle of Scotland, the Tudor Rose of England and the Shamrock of Ireland – symbols taken from the old colour – and the other two flowers, the Protea, the National flower of South Africa and the Strelitzia, the flower of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal).

East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

East Pittsburgh's school colors were green and white, and its athletic teams were called the Shamrocks.

Jamaicaway

The person most mentioned in association with the Jamaicaway today is probably James Michael Curley, the Irish American Mayor of Boston whose former house was long easy to spot, even after Curley's death, by the shamrock design incised in its shutters.

Jaycee Park

The Pirates were a special business rate to stay at the Shamrock Village, a former Navy training base that had been converted at a cost of $1.5 million into 150 efficiency apartments and 44 motel rooms.

Short Shirl

The Curragh plain in Ireland was chosen as the departure point, but the Shamrock never got that far, ditching in the Irish Sea due to engine failure on the way to Ireland on 18 April 1919.