Colours of Irish Winds

Colours of Irish Winds

Have you heard of this old Irish belief? It was held that the wind had a different colour for each cardinal direction (north, south, east, west) and 8 further subordinate directions. Some Irish historians at the turn of the nineteenth century popularised the tenth century Irish biblical poem, Saltair na Rann (‘Psalter of Quatrains’) which described the belief that in addition to creating the winds, God created them in different shades, with the northern wind being absent of colour or black, and other shades included greys, brown, yellow, purple from the east, red, blue, white from the South and green. 
The Irish county skies can more easily be seen to take on many hues, but give a thought to an old Irish claim for the wind. Maybe the next time the wind blows, you will think of what shade could describe it.

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