Quote Originally Posted by Sawney Bean View Post
Hi,
incidentally the Irish Guards pipers wear a saffron kilt as do the pipers of The Royal Irish Regiment and those of the London Irish Rifles - whose march is also Garryowen* (which is about an 18th century drinking club of well appointed chaps in Limerick). Slainte.

* It was a very popular song during the Victorian era and it probably got into the 7th Cav. via the various Irish members, particularly Miles Keogh an Irish born officer who, I think, served previously with the British Army.
Pipers in the Irish Air Corps and the Irish Army also wear the saffron kilt, as do even a few civilian pipe bands in the Republic (although most of the latter wear tartan, and some of them wear solid green kilts).