The British monarch is hamstrung by tradition and politics from offering a robust defense of the largest country in his realm ...

St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color ...

With nationalism ascendant and Catholics outnumbering Protestants, green was widely embraced, particularly since it had been ...

Patrick wrote in Latin, and signed his works “Patricius.” In some accounts of his life, Patrick was given the birth name ...

However, blue still plays a symbolic role in Ireland: Since 1945, the flag representing the president of Ireland has a gold harp with a dark blue background – the color known as St. Patrick’s ...

According to researchers at the History Channel, Patrick was born “in what is now England, Scotland or Wales ... white and green shamrock, the colors of the Italian flag.

The Order of the Garter for the previous Kingdom of England already used a dark blue (Scotland’s ... tricolor as the national flag, but doesn’t define a national color so, in essence, Ireland ...

In just a couple of days, everyone will be Irish. Every year while scrolling social media on St. Patrick’s Day, I notice that ...

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