Is it ok to wear orange in Dublin, ireland?

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questioneer

No problem. If what you mean is "do people in Dublin associate wearing orange with unionism and object to it on those grounds" then the answer is no, short of a sash or King William t-shirt and even then most people wouldn't be bothered. This is not the North and most of us don't really care that much, if the truth be told.

Of course now wearing orange as a fashion disaster waiting to happen is a distinct possibility - "Jasus would you get that bright shiny shirt out of my eyeline, I've a throbbing hangover...."

fifibee16

Sure, as long as you team it with green and white.

Andy C

Yes,

Allthough orange is associated with William of Orange and the Unionist movement in Ulster, unless you are wearing a sash and bowler hat I wouldn't worry.
Of course, orange does not suit everybody!

There are people who still have many reasons to express political opinions as above and this can be very useful in promoting debte but for the most part people will debate these at the appropriate time.

Enjoy yourself in Ireland.

chelsea

we don't have a dress code here in dublin it is ok to were what you want don't mind what other people say it is a free country wear what you like

Charlotte C

Please disregard the above answer-pure craziness
Absolutely fine to wear orange in Dublin but only if it suits you

Pauline N

Thats a really strange question to ask. Of course its fine to wear orange in Dublin! Why wouldnt it be????

stefan

you would be better received in east belfast

cartier95

yes , its disaster to wear orange !

It could of course have more to do with the fact that most Protestents
are quite happy with the better liftestyle that being part of the U.K.
gives them.

> Whats more telling is the fact that there is next to NO feeling for
> Unionism amongst protestants living south of the border.

Exactly how many Protesants in the south have you spoken to? Might I
suggest a trip to the Conservative club which is still active in Dublin.

> Remember also the principles behind the foundation of 'Ulster' (ie
> Northern Ireland). 'Home Rule is Rome Rule' 'A Protestant Parliament
> for a Protestant People'.

Few can argue that Home Rule (or worse, de facto political
independence) WAS Rome Rule, given the events in the first 50 years
after the south left the U.K. In fact had the priest not been obsessed
with fathering children and molesting altar boys, the position of the
church might still be as powerful.

> Irish Nationalism has not sought to appeal to one religion or the
> other - indeed the Presbyterians were the first to fight the Union
with
> Britain.

When exactly? How many Presbyterians were involved in Irish nationalism
after the union?

> A combination of divide and conquer tactics from the British
> and a willingness by successive generations of politicians (mostly
> Unionist) to link religion with politics have left us where we are
> today.

Nothing at all to do with the catholic/cultural nationalism of the
1890s/1900s???

> Name a single Unionist political leader of the last 79 years that
> hasn't been a member of the Orange Order - an avowedly anti-catholic
> organisation.

Name a Taoiseach who hasn't been a Catholic, an avowedly anti-
Protestant organisation that until recently taught it's members that
all Protestants were going to hell once they died, and forced children
of mixed marriages to be brought up as Catholics under fear of ex-
communication. (Did you see "A Love Divided" ???)

> Look at how catholics were discriminated against by the
> Stormont regieme.

Actually none as you well know. This has been discussed at length on
s.c.i., and you'll finf that any discrimination was done by local
authorities NOT by the government of N.I.

> Now, is it any surprise that politics in NI
> polarised around religious grounds?

Exactly how many Protestants are members of Sinn FÃ©in (in N.I. OR the
Republic)? (Even the Hitler Youth even had the odd jew

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