On tombstones, shamrocks symbolize Irish origin or ancestry.
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Shamrocks
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Symbolism, tagged glendalough, hill of tara, ireland, irish, shamrock on June 3, 2012| Leave a Comment »
A Grave Concern: Interesting decor
Posted in Morbid Musings, tagged calvary cemetery, chicago, Crosses, grave offerings, illinois, irish, shamrock on September 29, 2011| Leave a Comment »
If you look very closely at this cross, you can see lines and shadows of something fairly narrow wrapped around it. It’s a wire and green foil disposable garland with shamrocks like you might find in a craft store in the weeks before St. Patrick’s Day. I’m not sure when it was placed there. It’s a little tattered, so maybe it could be a leftover St. Patrick’s Day decoration or placed there for a more personally specific day, such as a birthday or anniversary. In a city with such a strong Irish heritage, I wasn’t surprised to see symbols of Irish ethnic pride, but this was a little unusual.
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A Grave Concern by Ashley D. Smith is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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