Thank you all for your guidance. I'm definitely leaning towards the saffron. Yes, I heard that the Irish can be a 'tough crowd'.

In all my reading of Irish history, I've run across only one photograph of any one kilted. One of my books has a picture of a young Countess Markievicz, beautiful debutant turned revolutionary, seated among a kilted pipe band. There's no date given, but I think the photograph was taken well before the '16 rising.