• Quilotoa@lemmy.ca
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    And it was meant to symbolize the unity between the Irish Catholics and the Irish Protestants.

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    It’s a good thing that they did. Had the Dutch or the Germans designed it, they would have to decide whether the Catholics or Protestants were on top, which would have been problematic.

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      If the Dutch had designed it, the protestants would have been on top, in 1848 we just lost half the country to the catholics in the south during a civil war AKA the Belgian revolution. If the Germans had designed it, I don’t think Germany was united as a country jet in 1848?

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        After browsing the “History of Germany” wikipedia page, I found the German Empire that popped in around 1848, which had the the same colors of the modern German flag.

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    If it’s supposed to represented the union between those two, than why are the green and the orange regions separated by a giant white border?

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    So it literally is just a cloth that was slated to become a French flag but dyed different colors and pawned off as a gift to the Irish? Neat!

    • khannie@lemmy.worldOP
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      Ah the meaning (and motive of the French ladies who designed it) is quite distinct though no doubt heavily influenced by the flag of the French Revolution.