You’ve visited, researched your family history, watched Irish movies and drank more pints of Guinness than you can count. But now you’re ready to really take the plunge in terms of exploring your Irish heritage. You’re ready to learn how to speak the Irish language! But where do you start? Fort …

It’s officially fall, and that means pumpkins are in season and temperatures are dropping as the march to winter begins. We thought we’d take the occasion to host a pop-up blog within ShamrockCraic dedicated to the most Irish of cold weather apparel, the Aran sweater. Every Monday for the rest of …

There are few natural symbols out there that are so rich and diverse as that of the tree, representative (at least on one level) of the never-ending cycle of existence, as well as the ups and downs of life that come along with it. Thanks to the seeds that are distributed in its fruit, the tree ca …

Like many other forms of Irish decorative arts, Irish porcelain and companies like Belleek china, as well as traditional Irish pottery, have roots in ancient history—pottery fragments of coil pots from roughly 6000 years ago have been found in Irish burial mounds and tombs. Scholars estimate th …

It’s officially fall, and that means pumpkins are in season and temperatures are dropping as the march to winter begins. We thought we’d take the occasion to host a pop-up blog within ShamrockCraic dedicated to the most Irish of cold weather apparel, the Aran sweater. Every Monday for the rest of Oc …

The notorious vampire Dracula has stood as a horror icon for decades, but the character's origin, and inspiration, as well as the life of his creator Bram Stoker, are generally unknown to the trick-or-treaters and party-goers who don the caped, black-clad visage each Halloween. In fact, Dracula and …