2007-02-20 22:46:01 · 11 answers · asked by Darlene P 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ St. Patrick's Day
The Protestants wear orange, the rest of the free world wears green. In the US, if you are a school child and you are not wearing green, you get pinched. But you know, orange and green go well together, so it all works out, fashion-wise!
2007-02-21 02:58:13 · answer #1 · answered by Sweet n Sour 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, from one of the websites I saw, people wear orange to fight the exclusion of homosexuals on St. Patricks Day. The first website I found was this:
http://members.aol.com/MrGayPride/OrangeOnStPats.html
Also, the flag of the Republic of Ireland is green, white and orange. Here is the web address for that piece of information:
http://www.answers.com/topic/irish-flag
There is also an organization called The Orange Institution, or The Orange Order, who are a group of Protestants from Northern Ireland, who choose to wear orange on St. Patricks Day to commemorate the saint. Check out this website for more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Institution
Have fun!
2007-02-22 01:31:38 · answer #2 · answered by cerridwen1983 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the orange is for the protestants,they do it to protest against st paddys day,a big reason being the irish nationalist are mostly catholic and protest the orange order(protestants) marching down catholic areas. catholics protest these marches because the orange order is a racist and bigotted organisation,they march for 2 months celebrating their victory of 1066,they sing songs that are violent and taunting for exapmle one goes
"singing up to our necks in fenian blood,
surrender or you'll die...."no wonder we don't want them marching around huh? the irish flag goes
green=irish catholics/republicans
white=peace
orange=protestant/british
this shows how the irsh desire peace and unity amongst the warring factions.
most people wear green as that is the traditional color associated with ireland. saoirse(freedom),tiocfaidh ar la(our day will come)agus(and)
erin go bragh(ireland forever)!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-02-22 21:37:17 · answer #3 · answered by fenian1916 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The one on the other side from "St. Patrick" was William of Orange. I understand that "Orange" was the good guy.
2007-02-21 06:51:07 · answer #4 · answered by hasse_john 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Because the Irish flag has green, orange and white on it.
2007-02-23 16:20:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you see thats the starnge thing...st patricks day is an irish festival, but it is the protestants who go mad for it, even though they are the ones who maintain that they are 'British' not Irish, I just don't get it..Hypocrites!
2007-02-21 10:26:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
ive actually never seen anyone wearing orange on paddy's day, but then again i live in co. limerick and there isnt any prodies around here.
2007-02-22 12:45:37 · answer #7 · answered by Delete 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do they? its acutally meant be gold...green white and gold, the colour of the flag, the tri-colour
2007-02-21 06:49:38 · answer #8 · answered by scotgal 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who are they????
Tell me so I can make them mend their ways! ;-)
Only recalcitrant Prods would do that, meaning people who have the compulsion to show that they have nothing in common with those Irish.
2007-02-21 06:51:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I thought everyone wore green.
2007-02-24 09:32:54 · answer #10 · answered by Troy K 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋