2007-03-17 03:38:17 · 14 answers · asked by Grace S 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ St. Patrick's Day
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2007-03-17 03:49:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
St. Patrick's Day is a national holiday in Ireland, with non-essential businesses being closed.
Ireland is known as "The Emerald Isle". I have been to Ireland, & am Irish, & can definately attest to the fact there are 100 shades of green in the countryside. It is a beautiful country! Also, the Irish flag is green, white, & orange.
So, to wear green, or wearing o' the green, is to show solidarity with Ireland or the Irish.
Erin go braugh!
2007-03-17 04:02:53 · answer #2 · answered by boppie2790 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ireland is known as the Emerald Isle, and since St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland, a lot of people wear green on St. Patrick's Day to honor Ireland.
2007-03-17 03:45:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you google some images of Ireland, and castles in Ireland, you will see how very green that country is! It's called the Emerald Isle because it looks like a green gem in the ocean. The flag is also green and orange, some Irish people who are protestants will wear orange instead of green on this day.
2007-03-17 04:26:29 · answer #4 · answered by Sweet n Sour 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is mainly political. The Catholic Irish wear green. The Protestants (those that were chased out of Ireland) wear orange. It has been a political struggle for many years. I wear orange as a general rule. I am Protestant and proud of that fact. My hair happens to be an orange red. My great-great- grandmother came from County Cork Ireland and came over here during the Potato famine.
2007-03-17 03:56:49 · answer #5 · answered by Penny M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because if you don't wear green on St. Patrick's Day the Ireland spirits will curse you for the day and everyone will pinch you for no green today.
2007-03-17 03:45:26 · answer #6 · answered by jessicalleycat 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once upon a time it was forbidden in Ireland by the ruling English...
It was seen as a form of protest(the color of the native shamrock) thus it was forbidden.
People started wearing it as a sign of being free in this country.
Check out the lyrics in the "Wearin' O' The Green" song.
2007-03-17 04:05:55 · answer #7 · answered by plasmadriven 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beer doesn't show up on green...you see the Irish people needed a day they could dedicate to their favorite passtime...DRINKING! So they brewed up (no pun intended) a day call St Patricks day. They figured they were all going to get so sloppy drunk and spill beer every where that it might as well match their clothes. So hence the green beer and green clothes. Now if you are an outsider and spill the green beer on your white shirt...well....that's just damn funny!
2007-03-17 03:43:39 · answer #8 · answered by J D 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it is the colour eco-friendly it is on the Irish Flag, yet don't be too hasty to positioned on eco-friendly, i for my area positioned on orange on st. patrick's day, my kinfolk replaced into Lutheran no longer Catholic. the colour eco-friendly regularly comprehend for the Gaelic and/or the Anglo-Norman peoples (nationalists and Catholic supporters) and the colour orange for the Protestants (those of the goddess religions that switched over to a distinctive sort of Christianity and supporters of William the Orange), and the colour white is for the truce between the two, that's the Irish Flag!]
2016-10-02 06:51:56 · answer #9 · answered by gayston 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a Protestant whose ancestors were driven out of France and Ireland to Scotland by the Catholics, I wear the protestant orange - not the catholic green.
2007-03-17 03:44:33 · answer #10 · answered by BCR 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i guess it's the color of the Irish for luck, probably has to do with the color of money---- i'm not wearing a stitch of green it's never done me any good
2007-03-17 03:42:56 · answer #11 · answered by nobody 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋