The Irish Tricolour flag represents the country of the Republic of Ireland, 26 counties of the island, which in fact doesn’t include the 6 counties that St Patrick mainly operated in. In fact, it can be quite offensive to many people living in the place St Patrick mainly operated in, due to a civil conflict.
St Patrick also has his own flag - a red saltire on a white background - which deliberately represents him.
Making St Patrick’s day a festival of Irish Nationalism specific to the Republic of Ireland makes zero sense, and using a flag which only represents part of the island, especially since many Americans are also descended from Ulster Scots in Northern Ireland.
dw the tricolor will represent all 32 counties soon :3
I would expect a new flag should that happen.
Same. There’s gotta be a fucking flute or a lambeg drum just to appease the orange order.
I’d like St Patrick’s Saltire as it would be consistent with England and Scotland which may also be part of a dissolved UK by then. Kinda like how the frenchy countries use tricolours and the germy countries use horizontal tricolours
I think boob harp is my second preference. It looks cool and would be funny to have a boob on our flag.
IDGAF about some random Catholic missionary, but won’t miss a chance to promote Irish reunification.
Fair enough 😂
I don’t know if this counts as an unpopular opinion, as opposed to something that a lot of people don’t know. Have an upvote for the interesting facts though :)
In America it’s just a day for people to get drunk and talk about their Irish heritage when they don’t really have any knowledge of.
My family came from Ireland. We have no clue what part of Ireland. We don’t speak the language or know the history but doesn’t stop us from celebrating st Patrick’s day.
I find it such a strange holiday.
Same with Cinco De Mayo or really any of the holidays we’ve appropriated from different cultures. It’s just a day to get drunk and vaguely celebrate something
Patron Saints often have little connection to the country that holds them.
The rest of the UK saints…
- St George (England) was a Roman soldier In Greece
- St Andrew (Scotland) was an apostle of jesus in Galilee.
- St David (Wales) was actually Welsh and and a Bishop of the Catholic Church.
St Patrick does have connection to Ireland, due to his mission affecting the whole island, and he was kind of patron saint of the whole place before the split anyway.
Yes but you’re complaining that the flag doesn’t reflect the geographic location he worked. I’m saying it doesn’t matter.
