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. But the holiday used to be a solemn feast day when you’d be far more likely to see the color blue.

St Patrick’s Day used to be a simple affair. Put on your green hand-me-down geansaí or gúna, maybe go to mass, perahps watch Darby O’Gill and the Little People on TV and eat as much chocolate as you can on your day off Lent. Consumerism has since taken hold and ways to mark Lá Fhéile Pádraig are myriad.