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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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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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 why people wear green when celebrating the holiday ...
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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 ...
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Why do you get pinched if you don’t wear green on St. Patrick’s Day?
As we mentioned, the original color of Saint Patrick was blue but because Ireland, as the nickname the ... are green and there's green in our flag - Americans gradually began wearing more and ...