Tricolours and Tribulations
This week, the verified St Patrick’s Day Twitter account made the following tweet, seemingly claiming ownership to the Irish tricolour “for all our people, our beautiful multi-ethnic society. It was designed to signify peace and hope, not hatred and ignorance. #AwakenIreland Stand up to racism”. Ah yes, the multi-ethnic society which has seen crime rise to levels never seen before, the needs of illegal immigrants put before the needs of the Irish people and the vilification of the Irish nation as a whole. https://t.co/IyePqfbZnB" / Twitter
This is moronic coming from the St Patrick’s Day Festival twitter account, St Patrick’s day commemorates the arrival of Christianity to Ireland, not the arrival of critical race theory and woke American politics imported from social media. Regardless of whether you are religious or not, one must admit the absurdity and unwanted political takes during an important religious festival for the people of Ireland.
Given that the people who promote American politics and American issues in Irish life and society are more loyal to the Multicolour than the Tricolour as has been demonstrated many times over the past decade, I shall clear the meaning of the Tricolour before it gets altered by a Liberal arts student in Trinity College.
The Irish Tricolour was invented and presented as a gift to Thomas Francis Meagher (The leader of the Young Irelanders movement) in 1848 by a group of French women called who were sympathetic to the idea of an Ireland that was independent of Britain, as Ireland was part of the British Empire at the time and was undergoing one of the worst manmade famines in its history, cutting the population of eight million by twenty to twenty five percent, with over a million dead, millions leaving for nations such as America, Canada, Britain and Australia, though if one was going to Australia it was likely for stealing food or a pair of shoes. In turn, there was a large decline in the usage of the Irish language through 1845 and 1852. Despite food being widely available such as wheat, barley, beef, butter and other cash crops, they were all being shipped out of the country with military escorts.
The flag consists of three vertical lines coloured green, white and orange. The green represents the Catholics who were the majority of people in Ireland, the orange represents the Protestants who were the minority yet held the most power in the country and the white signifies a peaceful union between the two groups.
It is a flag that is frequently flown by those who recognise that the country they live in or have ancestry from is one that had to put up with centuries of tyranny, prosecution and slavery and despite all the odds, ultimately prevailed over what was the most powerful Empire in history. Nationalists, ordinary folk, the diaspora who yearn to return home, it is flown by them all, while liberals fly the flags of foreign extremist ideologies and funnily enough, Antifa Ireland claims the tricolour is a symbol of white supremacy, which is contradictory as white supremacists have a seething hatred for Irish people and Irish people are treated as second class citizens in their own country, despite somehow benefitting from white privilege. For example, at this current time with the covid lockdown, Irish people cannot travel five kilometres away from their homes or risk a fine from authorities if they are caught, while the airports are constantly bringing in everyone and their dog. People then wonder why covid cases are not going away, it’s not because nationalists held an anti-lockdown protest or people commemorating their history, that is clear.
So why did the St Patrick’s Day Festival twitter account make such an inflammatory tweet? Undoubtedly to cause a stir for publicity, after all, there is no such thing as bad publicity. However, I wonder who the people are that run the twitter account and what connections they may have to certain Europhillic NGO groups and the government as a whole. Though as I was doing research, I learned that the group are funded by the Irish taxpayer, shocker.
Another reason why they made such a tweet is because the Irish Tricolour is something that is beyond them, therefore they feel like it must belong to them while it goes against their narrative. Liberals can fawn over the Tricolour all they want, but to do that is trying to change its original meaning and re-making it into something it is not. It will never represent economic migrants, LGBT extremism and indoctrination, a technocratic bureaucracy, Black Lives Matter or an African colony.
If the Tricolour truly is an example of multiculturalism in these people’s bubbles, it is one of the bloodiest examples of it, especially in recent history as the horrors of The Troubles are still fresh in many peoples minds. A large number of protestants (those who staunchly support British rule are called Unionists) in Northern Ireland do not view the Tricolour as a symbol of unity, evident by how they frequently burn the Tricolour and other Irish imagery during The Twelfth of July celebrations in celebration of the victory of the Battle of the Boyne in 1699.
And to be fair, republicans do not support the tricolour either nowadays (those who want a United Ireland to put it simply), you will see them fly the Palestinian flag or LGBT flags more often than the tricolour, again, promoting foreign ideologies and destructive talking points over the needs of their own people, as the expression goes, Britain out, everyone else in. They believe Kashmir belongs to the Kashmiri, but lord forbid you say Ireland belongs to the Irish unless you want a smoothie thrown on you or coca cola mixed with curry powder by Sinn Feiners (supporters of Sinn Fein, a Marxist Leninist backboard party) or the daughter of a hated former minister for justice.
Those who are attempting to change the meaning of the Tricolour and what it means to be Irish have learned nothing from the past. Though knowing these people and the talking points they promote, they likely believe that Africans were the first inhabitants of Ireland and support blackwashing Irish history as a whole while viewing it all through a rainbow lens.
For example, Liberals love to take important Irish documents such as the Proclamation of Independence and intentionally misinterpret the meanings of certain quotes, such as “Cherishing all the children of the nation equally”. They make the idea that anyone who’s parents are from outside of Ireland are somehow as Irish as Brian Boru (The first High King of Ireland), when this is nothing but a coping mechanism for something they will never have or understand. I am pointing to the word “Nation” here, when people look at it and when liberals use it, they are making it appear to have the same meaning as the word country. In reality, the word nation means a large group of people who share a common ancestry, common language and a common culture with each other.
Having an American passport does not make me as American as George Washington, America has a whole other way of life, politics, laws and so on, I can spend a lifetime there as an American citizen but by no means would I consider myself to be more American than a lovely Boston person I have trouble understanding or a country singer in West Virginia with heritage dating back centuries in the Appalachian Mountains unlike migrants who leech off the system and brag on social media how Africans invented everything, that white Irish people are colonists who have to be driven out of Ireland and yelling at Irish shoppers who are locked in a shop for their safety that they deserve to die because they’re “white bastards”.
One must point out the irony of how often they use the quote “Cherishing all the children of the nation equally” yet these are the same people who voted for abortion on demand in 2018 with no pain relief and no proper burial being given to the aborted children whose mother aborted them because she would rather earn a six figure salary working for a news publication. All paid for by the Irish taxpayer, your body your choice? My money my choice.
When the proclamation was first written, the word nation was used purposefully as the Irish people shared what was a common struggle for freedom against a regime that was sending them off to die as cannon fodder in the Somme or die being shot out of the water in Suvla bay, fighting for the freedom of small countries while their country is not free. All for what? So ungrateful and belligerent illegals who would come in planes and not in chains obtain a piece of paper that says they are Irish as they try to redefine what Irish is to include them? It would have been better to let the Germans in through the front door then.
Regardless, the liberal classes have eaten up the whole Tricolour debacle, using the same scripts from the Democrats in America and verbally abusing those who go against their scriptures, it is hilarious though to simultaneously see them complain about the Irish Tricolour being the symbol of a fictitious far right and that the flag should be changed. They would sooner see the EU flag or LGBT flags being made national flags. Here is an image that accurately sums up those from outside the country who show their gratitude on social media.
This whole ordeal does not surprise me, but I will make one thing clear to those who seek to re-write Irish history and tarnish the flag.
You can try all you want, in the end, those who fought, bled and died for a chance for Irish people to be represented in their own country made their ideals that led them into gunfire known which still stands to this day, Ireland belongs to the Irish. Their facts win, your blind opinions driven by faux emotional virtue does not, no matter how much taxpayer money you waste, how many people you slander and how many people you ban from public discourse.
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