St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color ...

Wearing green is one of the most important aspects of Irish culture and celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, but not everyone knows ...

Neither green nor orange were originally associated with St. Patrick. The 5th-century missionary and bishop actually sported ...

Blue has historically been the color of St. Patrick himself, and orange is part of the celebrations as a stripe on the Irish flag—although we don't recommend wearing orange by itself.

To connect the past to the nationalist movement, she used blue as the background for the Irish Citizen Army’s flag. In 1934, Irish politician W.T. Cosgrave asserted that blue is “in perfect ...