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THE LUCK O’ THE IRISH, POTS OF GOLD AND WEE FOLK
THE WEARIN’ O’ THE GREEN The green harp flag was used by the Irish Catholic Confederation of Ireland at least as early as the 1640s. In the 1790s, rebels in Ireland adopted green, both the fabric and the shamrock, as a symbol of their unity against English loyalists. The original ballad, “The Wearing of the Green” refers to this uprising and tells the story of a revolutionary immigrant who explains and laments that wearin’ o’ the green has been ...
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