Local old age home celebrates St Patrick’s Day
Quondam Village has several Irish residents and thus the colour green decorated the village.
About 30 residents at Quondam Village got together to celebrate St Patrick’s Day on March 17.
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It was a bring-and-share evening accompanied by the strains of Irish music.
The village has several Irish residents.
The colour green decorated the village.
As the tradition goes, ‘wearing green’ on St Patrick’s Day is supposed to make you invisible to leprechauns (mischievous elves).
What many do not know is that the original colour of Saint Patrick was blue.
A 13th-century image of St Patrick depicts Ireland’s patron saint in a blue robe.
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The first formal use of the colour blue was under the reign of King Henry VIII, who turned Ireland into a Kingdom in 1542.
The use of the colour green in Ireland has been an evolution over time.
They popularly believed that St Patrick once used a shamrock in his preaching to symbolise the Christian Holy Trinity.
Derived from the Irish word ‘seamróg’ meaning ‘little clover’, shamrock refers to young sprigs of clover.
During the 1798 Irish Rebellion, the clover became a symbol of nationalism and ‘wearing the green’ on lapels became a regular practice.
Ireland’s Constitution defines the green-white-orange tricolour as the national flag but doesn’t define a national colour.
Copies of the Irish Constitution are printed with a blue cover and the carpets of the Irish Houses of Parliament are a deep blue.
However, ‘wearing the green’ remains a tradition associated with St Patrick’s Day.
