Why the color of St. Patrick’s Day changed from blue to green
St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color green: green clothes, green shamrocks, green beer and green rivers. But the holiday used to be a solemn feast day when you’d be far more likely to see the color blue.
A flag-raising and Leprechaun Plunge kicked off Saturday's Jamesport St. Patrick's Day Parade. Grand Marshal Anthony Meras ...
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.
The city of Aurora will hold its St. Patrick’s Parade and Irish flag-raising ceremony beginning at 11 a.m. Sunday in downtown Aurora. The event “honoring the legacy of the parade’s namesake ...
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 ...
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