EP6: That’s Not My Flag
from We, The Irish
Different symbols can mean different things to different people.Symbology is a tremendous thing, a series of colours, words or images portrayed in a very specific order can evoke great emotions in us all, both positive and negative.Individually, a mix of colours rarely mean anything.But what happens when you organise the colours in a specific fashion that it becomes the centre of an ideology, a cause or a reason for being.What if you add a design to these colours, does it begin to mean more as only you and your people can truly understand what this symbol means, and only you understand the emotions this design can evoke.What if the symbol you believed best displayed who you are and demonstrated everything you believed in, was deemed illegal or something which made you a lesser person?In 1906, a man from Wicklow showed the world, above all else, the symbol he believed in was more important than self-glory and he wanted the world to know all about it.This is his story.
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