Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day so before you get your celebration on, break out the Irish whiskey have some Irish stew and a Guinness and get ready to recover from the hangover to end all hangovers because Irish eyes are smiling this week- because we've got Ireland!
Adopted for national and civil usage on January 21st, 1919, the Irish flag is one of many modelled on the French tricolore and was first flown by the nationalists in the struggle for freedom from Britain in 1848. It wasn't until the Easter Rising of 1916 that it came to be associated as the national flag a fact that was officially confirmed in 1919 and written into the Constitution of Ireland in 1937.
The colors are relatively simple: the green is for the Catholic majority, the orange for the Protestant minority and the white is for the union (and peace) between Catholics and Protestants- which has been hard to come by in years past but seems to be doing OK at the present time.
Ladies and gentlemen raise your glasses and get ready to celebrate a day early for Ireland!
And until next time... keep your flags flying- FREAK or otherwise!
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