The Irish tricolour, with John Crotty

Flags have become increasingly controversial in recent years. The
US flag has become shorthand for MAGA and the Irish flag is under
increasing strain, with its appearance on flagpoles all over
Ireland signalling that immigrants are unwelcome


However the history of our national symbol is equally
contested – who first combined the green, orange and white, whose
idea was it, what did it mean and why were other symbols
rejected?


Historian John Crotty is the author of a new book on the
tricolour.


The tricolour's contested origins show how myths are made


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