How St. Patrick’s Day celebrations originally featured the color blue
With nationalism ascendant and Catholics outnumbering Protestants, green was widely embraced, particularly since it had been ...
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Why do people wear green on St. Patrick’s Day?
Wearing green is one of the most important aspects of Irish culture and celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, but not everyone knows ...
Here’s Why Some People Wear Orange—Not Green—On St. Patrick’s Day
Neither green nor orange were originally associated with St. Patrick. The 5th-century missionary and bishop actually sported ...
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What Are the St. Patrick’s Day Colors, and What Do They Mean?
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.
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How the color of St. Patrick’s Day went from blue to green
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 ...