Gnads wrote on Dec 12
th, 2024 at 5:56pm:
Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Dec 12
th, 2024 at 4:02pm:
I like our current flag, just wish the Irish were recognised on it.
You must be as thick as 2 short Irish planks.
Quote:The stripes on the Union Jack represent the three constituent nations of the United Kingdom: the red cross of St. George for England, the white saltire of St. Andrew for Scotland, and the red saltire of St. Patrick for Ireland;
Where do you live? Under a history ignorant rock?
Thank you for your display of uneducated, unedifying ignorance.
The Red Saltire is a cross, crosses in Vexillology are for martyrs, St Patrick died of old age and in bed.
Therefore the so called St Patrick’s Cross is a bit of bull, it is actually the Red Saltire of the Fitz Geralds, an Anglo-Norman family, the Irish emblem was the Harp, but it couldn’t be fitted to the Union Flag except in the centre, a dominant position, so the Cross of the Geraldines was ‘’borrowed’’ from the thoroughly un-Irish, Knights of St Patrick, and then it was ‘’broken’’ so that it fitted into the Union Flag [not, be it noted, the Union Jack]
Hope this little history lesson was helpful.
Edit. The Jack is the Flag flown on the’Jack staff’ . The short staff at the bow of a Naval vessel, thus the Union Flag becomes theUnion Jack as do all other flags flown in similar manner by any nation that is known as a Union, e.g. Union of South Africa, the Soviet Union, the USA [whose Union Jack is the Stars from the US Flag.]
Here endeth the lesson.
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