FEWER SHAMROCKS
The wearing of shamrock in. London on St. Patrick's Day seenia to be declining every year, although there are more Irish dinners there than . ever, says the "Manchester Guardian." Mr. Dulanty, tie Free State High Commissioner, however, is said to have dined at at least four of them on St. Patrick's Night, as befitted the /. most popular Irishman in town. One explanation why there are fewer shamrocks to bo seen in the streets is offered by a correspondent who went into a famous Irish tavern in Fleet Street and asked why there were no bowls of shamrocks ou the bar. The barman, replied that the distillers were not sending shamrock now. That was bad enough, said the correspondent, but to make it worse the man, with a good Irish accent, was wearing a red rose hi his coat. To wear a.Ted; rose in one's buttonhole behind the bar in an Irish tavera; on March 17 is- surely one'of the most daring deeds over done.onSt." Pat ricks-Day. . '/■■ ~
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 33, 8 August 1933, Page 14
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