Union Jack on Dublin quays

luckat

Competition: where's it flying. Tip - it's not in colour.

darkman2

BURN IT!!!......Only joking:D Hmmmm I havnt a clue.:rolleyes: Arron quay perhaps, somewhere round there?

Black Swan

People fly all kinds of national flags in the States, but mostly USA. Especially around university with students from all over the world. So what's the big deal? It's not like they are laying claim to USA or Irish soil.:rolleyes:

Not only that, know some girls that wear flags on the seat of their pants.

Rb

Whats the prize in this competition?

TomCo

rb_ie wrote:

Whats the prize in this competition?

A lynching.

Wishbone Ash

luckat wrote:

Competition: where's it flying. Tip - it's not in colour.

On a marine vessel?

Civilian_Target

Erm... custom house...

luckat

Not a marine vessel, not (as far as I know) on the Custom House.

Prize? Hmmm.... a lucky ring?

Fajitas!

Possibly on a rooftop along by the liffey...If you're coming off Church St, from Constitution hill... non?

EDIT: and it's graffiti, not an actual flag...Guess I shoulda mentioned that!

luckat

Not a rooftop, not graffiti.

Lump

The British Embassy? The Four Courts? Who cares?

nikolaitr

Just outside the Four Courts along with some other flags.....I always see them in B&W and think "Am I going colour Blind"

Wishbone Ash

Lump wrote:

The British Embassy?

On the quays???

Caco

George's Quay...?
I heard they might be changin some of the names of English named streets to Irish ones!

kona

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

People fly all kinds of national flags in the States, but mostly USA. Especially around university with students from all over the world. So what's the big deal? It's not like they are laying claim to USA or Irish soil.:rolleyes:

Not only that, know some girls that wear flags on the seat of their pants.

the US flag is the stars and stripes:rolleyes:

Caco

... or maybe Wellington Quay?

Gone West

a detail on that bridge that was forged in st. helens foundry in lancashire, mabye?

InFront

nikolaitr wrote:

Just outside the Four Courts along with some other flags.....I always see them in B&W and think "Am I going colour Blind"

Flags in black and white is an oddly nice idea, somehow very appropriate.

Not exactly quayside, but is it hanging over the GPO by any chance?:D

kona

cyclogical on they quays near the hapenny bridge advertising hope disc brakes:p

JaysusMacfeck

Rip the fecker down and throw it back over the border.

On a more serious note, I wonder what would happen if (for whatever reason) they stuck a huge Union Jack up on the GPO. Would the general public kick up a fuss?

InFront

Yes... and shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Lump

Wishbone Ash wrote:

On the quays???

I don't know where the embassy is.... it was a guess, more importantly I don't care!

Flukey

JaysusMacfeck wrote:

Rip the fecker down and throw it back over the border.

On a more serious note, I wonder what would happen if (for whatever reason) they stuck a huge Union Jack up on the GPO. Would the general public kick up a fuss?

Actually, the Union Jack did fly over the GPO a few years ago. It is a standard protocol when representatives of postal services from other countries visit. There was such a delegation over here at the time. It was mentioned because of the novelty of it, but there was no great fuss about it.

JaysusMacfeck

Novelty?

Hagar

Newcastle United fans sometimes use a b&w variant of the Union Jack.
There is also a green, white and red version used somewhere on the continent, Bretons (not Gwann ah Du) or Basques I think.

\m/_(>_<)_\m/

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

People fly all kinds of national flags in the States, but mostly USA. Especially around university with students from all over the world. So what's the big deal? It's not like they are laying claim to USA or Irish soil.:rolleyes:

Not only that, know some girls that wear flags on the seat of their pants.

thats funny...

like to see the Iranian, Syrian, Iraqi, or Afghan flag flying in the US...and that's only four.... i could go on and on.

joebhoy1916

\m/_(>_<)_\m/ wrote:

thats funny...

like to see the Iranian, Syrian, Iraqi, or Afghan flag flying in the US...and that's only four.... i could go on and on.

LOL true.

quoteBasquesquote

Yes E.T.A also used buy celtic supporters! Also one in green white and gold in a union jack

robinph

There was loads of countries flags in black and white on the flag poles down the quays a while ago, have they put them back up again for some reason?

Day-wanna-wonga

luckat wrote:

Competition: where's it flying. Tip - it's not in colour.

Who gives a sh*t? What's your point?

\m/_(>_<)_\m/

luckat wrote:

Competition: where's it flying. Tip - it's not in colour.

Day-wanna-wonga wrote:

Who gives a sh*t? What's your point?

UH-OH.... somebody didn't get their hole last night.


whats his point.....
im going out on a limb here.... this is a long shot but sure ill throw it out there anyway... maybe he has put a hint in there for us somewhere...

ok here goes.... is it a competition?

BrookieD

Its a Union Flag, it's not a Union Jack untill it goes to sea ;-)

\m/_(>_<)_\m/

BrookieD wrote:

Its a Union Flag, it's not a Union Jack untill it goes to sea ;-)

that's only one popular theory...

The issue of whether it is acceptable to use the term "Union Jack" is one that causes considerable controversy. Although it is often asserted that "Union Jack" should only be used for the flag when it is flown as a jack (a small flag flown at the bow of a ship), it is not universally accepted that the "Jack" of "Union Jack" is a reference to such a jack flag; other explanations have been put forward [1]. The term possibly dates from the early 1700s, but its origin is uncertain. The word Jack may have come from the name of the James VI, King of Scots who inherited the English crown, causing the flag to be designed, that is Jac from Jacobus, Latin for James. The size and power of the British Navy internationally at the time could also explain why the flag was nicknamed the "Union Jack" considering the navy was so widely utilized and reknowned by the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries it is possible that the term "Jack" did occur due to its regular usage on all British ships using the "Jack Staff" (a flag pole attatched to a ship on the bow). Even if the term "Union Jack" does derive from the jack flag (as perhaps seems most likely), after three centuries, it is now sanctioned by usage, has appeared in official usage, and remains the popular term. The BBC website disregards the term "union flag" because of its "great potential for confusion", preferring union jack (in lower case)[2] The term "Union Flag", on the other hand, is the term preferred in official documents by vexillologists. The Merchant Shipping Act[3] refers to the national colours of the United Kingdom as "the Union flag (commonly known as the Union Jack)".

Ponster

Cool. I didn't know that (I've always called it the Union Flag unless it was actually hoisted on a jack.)

luckat

Interesting, \m/!

Nobody's found it yet!

Hint: think of money.

goods

does anybody really care ?

solskjaer20

*Reminds me off the time about nine years ago when I seen the RUC standing on each other's shoulders burning a tri-colour at the end of the road and then trying to replace it with a jack*.

Their car was promptly burned out and not quite sure how they managed to get away themselves.

Lump

Ulster Bank?

Central Bank?

AIB Bank?

A Bank?

luckat

Getting warmer!

To win, though, you're going to have to name it and describe it!

Sangre

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

People fly all kinds of national flags in the States, but mostly USA. Especially around university with students from all over the world. So what's the big deal? It's not like they are laying claim to USA or Irish soil.:rolleyes:

Not only that, know some girls that wear flags on the seat of their pants.

Heaven forbid people don't want a flag flying from the country that colonised Ireland for 700 years.

InFront

Maybe I had a doctors appointment the day we learned about this in school, but wasnt it the Normans who came to ireland in 1169? I thought the British administration themselves didnt come until the plantations. Isnt 700/ 800 years colonisation by British people a bit untrue?

Anyways back OT, is this indoors or outdoors?

luckat

Outdoors, and it's not a cloth flag.

zoro

Sangre wrote:

Heaven forbid people don't want a flag flying from the country that colonised Ireland for 700 years.

I'm not sure if that was sarcasm or not .... :rolleyes:

Hagar

I think it's a stone carving on the Customs House.

robinph

InFront wrote:

Maybe I had a doctors appointment the day we learned about this in school, but wasnt it the Normans who came to ireland in 1169? I thought the British administration themselves didnt come until the plantations. Isnt 700/ 800 years colonisation by British people a bit untrue?

Anyways back OT, is this indoors or outdoors?

If it was the Normans, then they probably didn't take the boat straight across from France and must have had a bit of a trek across England first on their way over to start their oppressing, therefore they were English.

Lump

luckat wrote:

Getting warmer!

To win, though, you're going to have to name it and describe it!

How about I don't.

Hagar

Perhaps it's laid out in stone/marble on the ground.

luckat

Hagar, it's not the Custom House one I'm looking for. This one is modern.

Hint: it's in lights.

lostexpectation

is there some musical going on at the mo at the point with a flag in the sign?

luckat

Not there, Lost.

Collie D

joebhoy1916 wrote:

Yes E.T.A also used buy celtic supporters! Also one in green white and gold in a union jack

It's actually the Basque flag and true, ETA are Basque but that would be like somebody calling our tricolour an IRA flag

luckat

Hint: Not far from the Custom House, though, and you see it better at night.