Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

Primary schools to get Tricolour for 1916 centenary

245678

Comments

  • #32
    GMSA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭GMSA


    Hopefully the soldiers will educate our local schoolmaster on flag etiquette since he left the tricolour tied up a pole all summer. 3 flags flying the tricolour the EU flag and one of which is in tatters the Munster rugby flag. Disgraceful.


  • #33
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    riffmongous wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-CpZ6qtnjk

    If you wanna go about insulting the national flag, that kind of Provo-fanboy ḃսⅼⅼѕḣіt's the way to do it.


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,824 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    osarusan wrote: »
    All the money spent on flags.

    WHAT ABOUT THE HOMELESS?

    You can't hoist a homeless person up a flagpole, that would just be cruel.


  • #35
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Yamanoto wrote: »
    If you wanna go about insulting the national flag, that kind of Provo-fanboy ḃսⅼⅼѕḣіt's the way to do it.


    Damn you flag.Your mother's a hoe and you look rediculous.


    How's that?


  • #36
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    RobertKK wrote: »
    2016, a celebration of failure and death.


    Bit like Easter in general.


  • Advertisement
  • #37
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Deleted User wrote: »

    I'd certainly like to see one on O'Connell Street rather than the bland giant steel syringe that sits in the middle of it.

    Ah yes, the Stilleto in the Ghetto, The Pin in the Bin, The Stiffy by the Liffey.


  • #38
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Yamanoto wrote: »
    If you wanna go about insulting the national flag, that kind of Provo-fanboy ḃսⅼⅼѕḣіt's the way to do it.
    That song was written well before the Provos, if you recognise any of the names from the song


  • #39
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    I'd say some of the kids might get to the "cherish all of the children of the nation equally" and realise that they've been gypped


  • #40
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    kneemos wrote: »
    Damn you flag.Your mother's a hoe and you look rediculous.


    How's that?

    Your Múinteoir may pull you up on your spelling - 6/10, must do better.


  • #41
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,782 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Nodin wrote: »
    Bit like Easter in general.

    The 1916 dead remained dead...


  • Advertisement
  • #42
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    RobertKK wrote: »
    The 1916 dead remained dead...

    Unlike Jesus? :confused:


  • #43
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    RobertKK wrote: »
    The 1916 dead remained dead...

    True. I have to take that up with JC next time we go for a few jars.


  • #44
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Fantastic idea.

    Teaching our children that the national flag is something to be respected and the etiquette surrounding it's use is always praiseworthy as far as I'm concerned.

    Too many generations have grown up mostly seeing it defaced by event junkie soccer supporters or draped over some murdering terrorist's coffins.

    Well done to all involved.


  • #45
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,824 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    RobertKK wrote: »
    The 1916 dead remained dead...

    Or maybe that's just what they wanted you to think.....

    *ominous music*


  • #46
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Hopefully there'll be enough soldiers who can read all the big words in the proclamation,

    I s'pose the kids can help out out if they get stuck.


  • #47
    anvilfour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 720 ✭✭✭anvilfour


    RobertKK wrote: »
    It is what I believed for years. It also led to lots of records relating to Irish people being destroyed.

    Let's not forget most of the locals didn't support the 1916 rising until the British carried out those executions.
    The people didn't care about the proclamation.
    It would have been accepted as total failure if the British hadn't executed the men.

    Speaking as a Brit, I consider this a classic example of our unerring ability to balls up an already messy situation. :-D


  • #48
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    riffmongous wrote: »
    That song was written well before the Provos, if you recognise any of the names from the song

    Song may be an oldie, but you posted a video full of PIRA & RSF imagery.


  • #49
    swimming in a sea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 937 ✭✭✭swimming in a sea


    When is the main part of the 1916 commemoration?, as it is an early Easter next year and I think the rising was late April.


  • #50
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Yamanoto wrote: »
    Song may be an oldie, but you posted a video full of PIRA & RSF imagery.
    It's the only version sung by Declan Hunt I can find, and he sings it with far more passion that anyone else


  • #51
    recipio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,806 ✭✭✭recipio


    When I was in primary school, back in the Jurassic era, the teachers could not bring themselves to say 'green, white and orange' so it became 'green,white and gold'. It was a fudge, just as the foundation of the State was a fudge. It has become that cliche - a flag of convenience. When it comes to celebrating 1916 include me out.


  • Advertisement
  • #52
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    I still think we should replace the tricolour with the fenian harp, we'd be the only country with a pair of tits on our national flag then

    (someone will post a national flag with diddies on it now)


  • #53
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,782 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Nodin wrote: »
    True. I have to take that up with JC next time we go for a few jars.

    From what I read he will be very busy when it is time for the second coming.


  • #54
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Bambi wrote: »
    we'd be the only country with a pair of tits on our national flag then

    (someone will post a national flag with diddies on it now)

    Boobies ;)
    360_F_102352090_ie3kLjDIvgrT1sxVDknWCUh8PxgMYzM7.jpg




  • #55
    asherbassad
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭asherbassad


    Boring username wrote: »
    Indeed we should, and we should start with those uneducated dregs that deface our national flag on sporting occasions and cheap package holidays.

    FFS it's a flag.....a piece of cloth, not the damn Mona Lisa.


  • #56
    Dardania
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,397 ✭✭✭Dardania


    riffmongous wrote: »
    And quite fittingly, resurrection

    the value of compromise, and nurturing a positive neighbourly relationship?


  • #57
    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    I'll be out rocking my 90s Celtic jersey, can of Dutch in hand and singing drunk in a vague hum of the national anthem while the hoist the flag at the local school


  • #58
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Sheep Lover wrote: »
    I'll be out rocking my 90s Celtic jersey, can of Dutch in hand and singing drunk in a vague hum of the national anthem while the hoist the flag at the local school

    So will I , i'll probably have a tear in my eye too at the cost of school books.


  • #59
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Sheep Lover wrote: »
    I'll be out rocking my 90s Celtic jersey, can of Dutch in hand and singing drunk in a vague hum of the national anthem while the hoist the flag at the local school


    What about the barring order?


  • #60
    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    Nodin wrote: »
    What about the barring order?

    I'll be on official Republican business, I get a pass.


  • Advertisement
  • #61
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    recipio wrote: »
    When I was in primary school, back in the Jurassic era, the teachers could not bring themselves to say 'green, white and orange' so it became 'green,white and gold'. It was a fudge, just as the foundation of the State was a fudge. It has become that cliche - a flag of convenience. When it comes to celebrating 1916 include me out.
    Green, White and Gold flows off the tongue easier than Orange. More poetic too, since nothing rhymes with orange! I guess perhaps the early flags veered towards the yellow end of the spectrum to distinguish them from the green, white and red of Italy.

    No problem with them sticking the flag up in schools but let's leave out the whole "pledging allegiance to the flag" bs. I kinda like the way we generally don't get hung up on the finer points of flag etiquette.


Advertisement
Advertisement