Emerald Isle/Info

According to a pop-up Dev message on March 17 (St. Patrick's Day), this will be a "rare" set - they implied a limited time release.

Ireland never had any snakes to drive away. Ireland, after all, is surrounded by icy ocean waters—much too cold to allow snakes to migrate from Britain or anywhere else. The snakes are regarded as a metaphor for the irish that followed a nature-based pagan religion, and their 'driving out' refers to their conversion to Christianity.

The real St. Patrick wasn't even Irish. He was born in Britain around A.D. 390 to an aristocratic Christian family with a townhouse, a country villa, and plenty of slaves.

St. Patrick's Blue, not green, was the colour long-associated with St. Patrick. St. Patrick's Blue is officially the colour which appears on the Irish Presidential Standard (i.e. the flag of the President of Ireland) and the Coat of arms of Ireland.

The national plant of Ireland is called the Shamrock, not clover, although there is some debate amongst botanists about whether shamrock refers to all the 'trefoil' genus of which clover is perhaps the best known, or a specific species Trifolium repens (white clover). Shamrock derives from a gaelic word seamrog which means 'little clover', and therefore implies a specific kind of clover. St. Patrick used the three blades to illustrate the holy trinity.

The horseshoe in Ireland is normally displayed with the open end up, in order to "catch" the luck, otherwise it will flow out.
In most of Europe, the Middle-East, and Spanish-colonial Latin America protective horseshoes are placed in a downward facing or vulval position, but in some parts of Ireland and Britain people believe that the shoes must be turned upward or "the luck will run out." Americans of English and Irish descent prefer to display horseshoes upward; those of German, Austrian, Italian, Spanish, and Balkan descent generally hang them downward.

A real Irish pub looks nothing like what you've seen on TV. If you happen to be in a real Irish pub in Ireland, and the lights go out around 1-2 a.m., just sit there and wait for the lights to turn back on. That's how they get rid of the stupid tourists. Let's call it a "soft close" for people who don't know the real drinks start flowing at 3. If the tap doesn't have a half-full pint of Guinness waiting on the head to settle before it's topped off, it's not a real Irish pub.