We’re Wearing…

Green

Green, to celebrate St Patrick’s Day. You may think the wearing of green, even dyeing Chicago’s river green, is associated with the verdant countryside of the Emerald Isle, but not so. Ireland’s flag was originally blue with a harp on it, but during the 1790s, a group named the Society of United Irishmen, in favour of an

Irish republic, wore green, and the colour gradually became associated with all things Irish.