St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color green: green clothes, green shamrocks, green beer and green rivers.

The Irish flag - or ... and the Irish Catholic may be clasped, in generous and heroic brotherhood.” The green represents Irish nationalism; the orange, Ireland’s Protestant minority ...

In Northern Ireland, this most commonly occurs between Catholics and Protestants ... Hostility is often demonstrated through the flying of flags, to show that only one side of the community ...