Going For the Green?

 With St. Patrick's Day coming up and folks planning on wearing something green it's a good time to mention that green was not the original color used to depict the saint, it was blue. As early as the 13th century St. Patrick can be found in blue robes, the Irish coat of arms has a blue background plus there is even a shade of blue known as, "St. Patrick's Blue". So where did the green we associate with the holiday come in? Ireland has been known as the "Emerald Isle" and of course the shamrock figures in with the green but when things really took a turn for the green was The Rebellion of 1798 when the Irish took to wearing green uniforms and a shamrock in their protests and the rest, as they say, is history.