St Patrick's Shamrock Brooch Featuring the Red Poppy

Featuring the Red Poppy

Royal Irish Fusiliers Tie

DSO was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Irish unionist politician

Author: Hilary Robinson

St Patrick's Shamrock Brooch Featuring the Red PoppySt Patrick's Shamrock Brooch St. Patrick is the patron saint of the island of Ireland. He is credited with bringing Christianity to the island of Ireland and was probably responsible in part for the Christianisation of the Picts and Anglo Saxons. Patrick was born in Britain. When he was 16 years old, Irish raiders tore him from the villa of his father, Calpurnius, a deacon and minor local official, and carried Patrick into slavery in Ireland. He spent