In Ireland, what is the significance of the color orange?

I don't really understand your question but at a guess I would say it is in relation to our national flag. The orange represents the Protestant community and the green represents the Catholic population. read more

If you mean the orange strip on the Irish Tricolour (the flag of the Republic of Ireland), it represents the historical Protestant community in Ireland. Specifically supporters of King William III, AKA William Of Orange (his family being from the Orange region in France). Same background for the Orange Order in Northern Ireland and so on. read more

While this color tradition is not well known, it has deep roots in Irish history. Protestant Irish have been known as “orange” ever since 1690, when William of Orange (William III), the king of England, Scotland, and Ireland, defeated King James II, a Roman Catholic, in the Battle of the Boyne near Dublin. read more