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Shamrock is a city in Wheeler County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 2,029. The name Shamrock was first suggested, for good luck and courage, by Irish immigrant sheep rancher George Nickel, when he applied in 1890 to open a post office at his dugout home six miles north of the present townsite. Ever since Glen Truax, the town bandmaster, started the tradition in 1938, Shamrock has had a St. Patrick's Day celebration on the weekend nearest March 17. This two-day affair features Irish food, fun, and festivities, complete with a parade, a banquet, various other entertainments, and the crowning of Miss Irish Rose. A fragment of the genuine Blarney Stone from Blarney Castle in County Cork, Ireland, is mounted on a pillar in Elmore Park. www.shamrocktx.net www.tshaonline.org