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No Flag Northern Ireland
🕑 Added 2019-06-18 16:49:37 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaQwC5QbLeQ
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Mo Cassidy
Not to try and make this look like a youtube comments section, but... I think it would have been useful (and not that wander-off-the-pathy) to mention that, even using the term Ulster (of which Northern Ireland is about a 2/3rds subset), let alone its flag, to represent Northern Ireland, is pretty broken.
Martin Embeh
____________________ If you order by alphabet, I am the first comment. Technically.
LewdShift Team
Nice
Ryan McGuinness
I'm from Northern Ireland and I didn't even know some of this stuff. I'd be surprised if more than 20% of the population knew what the red hand is supposed to signify. I'd never heard that story in my life until now. My parents are direct descendants of two of the the families named on screen at that part of the video and I still hadn't heard the story of the hand. ✋
Gaëtan Perrault
Start a the "Wikipedia article of the day" and then click on every 3rd link until you have a video.
Riffi the Camel
Very enjoyable! But I feel watching this is like banging my head against the wall of The Needle. No worries, camels walk wobbly anyway.
Ben Wagner
2 deliberate misspellings at 0:48 on newspaper? I understand the brand name, but why misspell Belfast?
matt
... is this a 'No Love Deep Web' reference? :D
Haggai Elkayam
YES
Harry Cochrane
I love the stories of 'official' flags within the UK. We should never forget that the first 'official' Welsh flag was this monster in 1953 - https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/g/gb-w1953.gif
Harry Cochrane
St Patrick's Saltire may have been taken from the coat of arms of the Geraldines (FitzGerald), an Anglo-Norman/Hiberno-Norman family. I think its exact origin is disputed (especially as Ireland was represented by a harp until the eighteenth century), but using it for the Union Jack makes sense visually rather than trying to add the Red Hand or making the background yellow.
Ben Goodwin
I've always been confused about how St Patrick's cross fits into the mix, anyone know?
Matt Scudder
Now I want to watch a video of Grey getting lost in the forest of all knowledge, where he just meanders from topic to related topic explaining things.
Ryan McGuinness
Talk about tackling a controversial topic 😉
Intergalactic Potato
Hah, I really liked how this was put together. When discussing anything about Northern Ireland it's incredibly easy to get pulled off to complicated tangents. Well done.
