Yes, in Ireland, the color green is associated with bad luck in certain situations. This belief stems from the notion that wearing green can attract mischievous fairies or leprechauns, who may bring about misfortune. However, green is also widely recognized as a symbol of luck and good fortune in Irish culture.
not in the area in which i was reared - south east. i can't answer for everywhere else. No way! green is not a symbol of bad luck in Ireland.It shows of prosperous green lands. Im from the west coast. I have never heard of it being unlucky It did in years gone by. Green is the favourite colour of the Little People. If you wore too much of it, you could offend them and they would dry your cows, steal your children, ruin your crops etc. This belief only died out in the mid twentieth century.
Certainly my Grandparents would not wear green, and very little green cloth was sold here until the 1950s. Answer I grew up in Dublin (born 1932) and nobody thought green unlucky; you saw it everywhere. Gates, railings, fences, letterboxes, telephone booths etc were always painted green. Since ancient time Ireland has been known as the Emerald Isle and the old Irish flag was green with a gold harp. Green was symbolic of Ireland and of Irish nationalism and perhaps some people may have avoided wearing it in case they might be suspected of being "rebels". (Cf. references to green in rebel songs: Wearing of the green - 1798; Boolavogue - 1898; Wrap the green flag round me - 1916). I never heard that green was unlucky until I started mixing with English people and assumed their belief was based on the association green/Irish and the fact that their Irish "subjects" had always given them trouble!
Hope and luck.
Ireland's state color is Emerald-green and it also represents luck and pride in being Irish.
Because you wont get pinched and so you can have good luck. Saint Patrick isn't associated with the color green, but he is the patron saint of Ireland, and Ireland's national color is green, as is half of its national flag. So people like to wear green to celebrate the festival of one of the Saints of Ireland. Saint Brigid, another Saint of Ireland, isn't especially linked to the color green, but her day - February 1st - is frequently symbolized by a cross (not a crucifix-shape) made of roughly-woven rushes (a sort of dried grass), or straw.
because of the irish
because it's color that says luck that why he wears green..
Green! Like clovers! :)
White (it is surrounded by green)
green
Blue, Yellow, Green, and Orange
It is part of superstition that four-leaf clovers are lucky, and four-leaf clovers are green, thus the theme of luck is green.
Nothing happens. Actually green was not the original color for St. Patrick's day. It was blue and if you are in Ireland if you are Catholic you wear green, but if you are Protestant you wear orange ( this dates back to William of Orange).
hope,life, and growth is what green symbolizes