It may be the color associated with St. Patrick's Day, but Irish people feared the color green for much of their history. Green, now associated with St. Patrick and the rich colors of Irish ...

And it was Abraham Lincoln who, a year earlier at Malvern Hill, picked up a corner of one of the Irish colors, kissed it, and said, “God bless the Irish flag.” Lincoln and the Irish untangles ...

In fact, green was the color of the day every March 17 in cities all over the world, and not just in Ireland. The city of ...