Though the last name “Byrne” routinely pops up in many countries and cultures across the globe, there’s never so much as a drop of uncertainty regarding the country from which it hails. Coming in variations such as Burn, Burns, Byrnes, and O’Byrne, this name is unmistakably Irish, and we at Shamrock …

It’s St. Patrick’s Day! Check out this vintage newsreel footage of shamrocks being harvested from County Waterford and packaged for Irish around the world.It's long been a tradition to sport a shamrock sprig on St. Patrick's Day. St. Patrick himself is said to have used its three leaves to teach the …

Irish whiskey is having a bit of a moment in the run up to St. Patrick’s Day this year. Earlier this month, the Irish Whiskey Association visited New York and Toronto to promote its members’ products – i.e. just about every major Irish whiskey manufacturer including Bushmills. And the Distilled Spir …

For the 10th year in a row, iconic landmarks around the world will “go green” for St. Patrick’s Day. The annual Global Greening campaign is run by Tourism Ireland and has been since its 2010 inception, when just two landmarks were illuminated for the Irish national holiday. This year, nearly 40 …

Old Bushmills Irish whiskey is one of Ireland’s best-loved whiskey brands, renowned for its smooth taste and historic legacy, and has come to embody some of the best features of Irish history and heritage — its long lineage and its devotion to quality chief among them.THE HISTORY OF BUSHMILLS & …

County Tipperary is probably best known popularly through the World War I era song “It’s A Long Way to Tipperary” in which an Irishman forswears the grand sights of London and pines for his love back home in Ireland. But what the song doesn’t mention about Ireland’s largest landlocked county is that …