White is the colour of peace. The Irish tricolor is really supposed to symbolize a united Ireland in which Catholics (green) and Protestants (orange) would live peaceably side by side.

@williamcooke5627

6 жыл бұрын

It certainly was not influenced by the flag of Newfoundland. First off, that green, white, and pink tricolor is *not* the flag of Newfoundland. The real Newfoundland flag has justly been described as 'a Union Jack gone psychedelic'.

@williamcooke5627

6 жыл бұрын

Secondly, the Newfie tricolor was imitated from the Irish one, not the other way round. It is supposed to symbolize peace (white) between the Irish (green) and the English (pink).

@thenextshenanigantownandth4393

6 жыл бұрын

yes I believe the new found-land flag inspiring the irish tricolor is a myth . irish flag was definitely inspired by the french tricolor .

@Spoonmancometogether

5 жыл бұрын

William Cooke and we all no there is no peace

@TheMrPeteChannel

3 жыл бұрын

That will never happen. Unless Ireland & Northern Ireland become more secular.

Showing a tricolour to a loyalist is like showing a cross to a Vampire.

@edwardaugustus9680

6 жыл бұрын

And showing a Union Flag to a Republican is like showing a cross to a Vampire. :p

@solidus784

6 жыл бұрын

More like showing a butchers apron to a cow

@Archris17

6 жыл бұрын

As fitting as the Tricolour is, I wish you guys had gone with the green field and harp :( Nothing seems quite as Irish to me. Then again, I'm just a filthy Englishman, so what business do I have to tell you what to do with your country anymore? Sorry about the centuries of oppression and abuse by the way - that was a dick move on our part.

@gavinlaird85

6 жыл бұрын

LoZ Collector No need to apologise bud. The issues are between nationalists and unionists in the North. The Irish in the Republic and the English have no problems with eachother anymore. As for the flag... I agree, the Harp is distinctly Irish that's why I like to use it. The tri-colour can sometimes be mistaken for the many similar looking flags like the Ivory Coast flag or even the French and Italian flags.

@garyodriscoll7988

6 жыл бұрын

LoZ Collector No hard feelings, had ireland worked together, along with home field advantage, we could have fought ye off. Sorry for Stealing St. Patrick lol

I like the Irish tricolour but the harp flag is much better.

@unioneitaliana7107

Жыл бұрын

Put a yellow harp in the middle of the Irish tricolor. 😉

@tldredhistory8391

Жыл бұрын

It’s the presidential flag

@mncplayer1597

Жыл бұрын

@@unioneitaliana7107 Put SPQR in yours

@thomasmeagher8941

Жыл бұрын

Well I wasn’t very creative that day.

@sha9543

Жыл бұрын

As an Indian, I was hoping there would be some connection, but no ... :(

The flag with the harp was originally "St. Patrick's blue", and St. Patrick wasn't related to green. The flag was then changed by nationalists to green for their cause.

@nirnman

5 жыл бұрын

correct the national colour of Ireland was blue as in St Patrick's Blue. the Order of St Patrick was not a loyalist protestant order rather it was a part of the British Honour system of Knighthoods for those of Irish origin, akin to the Order of the Thistle for those of Scottish origin. furthermore, its regalia was in the aforementioned St Patricks Blue the colour of the plumes of the Irish Guards. The order ceased with the treaty which gave the Irish Free State its independence so that now Northern Irish are made Knights of the Order of St George and St Michael.

@thenextshenanigantownandth4393

4 жыл бұрын

Actually the green harp flag was the banner of Owen Rory O'Neill who was giving the English crown trouble at the time. The flag he used was a harp on a green background. It's true however that blue was the original color of Ireland relating to st Patrick, but the Irish changed it to green in a act of defiance agasint the English over 900 years ago.

Quite fitting you posted this today Hilbert, on the day of the first ever visit of an Irish Taoiseach to the Orange lodge head office in Northern Ireland.

@kieranfitz

6 жыл бұрын

And a gay one at that.

@antseanbheanbocht4993

6 жыл бұрын

Kieran Fitzgerald I hope your not suggesting that King Billy was a gay.

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

Completely coincidental seeing as I made this several months ago but thanks for letting me know that's quite a nice coincidence!

@greengreen9878

6 жыл бұрын

not my Taoiseach

When I was living in Ireland I felt amused by the thought that green was because the country is the greenest place I've ever seen, white was to be the color of the Irish after thousands of years without much sunlight, and orange the color of the hair of many of its people. I know that it's silly, but it was entertaining when I first heard it.

@Minime163

5 жыл бұрын

Very good nice to see my hair colour represented on our flag

@alisonmccarville8340

5 жыл бұрын

That’s just stupid

@ray_kaydee

4 жыл бұрын

The true meaning behind it

Did the Tudor exam on wednesday and your previous 5 videos about the Tudors were extremely useful to watch, especially just before the exam! Thanks for making them! I’ve been a subscriber for about a year now so keep up the good work:)

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome, how did you find the exam?

One thing that you forgot to mention is that the French supported various Irish rebellions and at some points attempted to invade Ireland by sea in order to liberate them but as we all know a naval invasion against Britian never goes well.

@francehasbeenthemostimport9558

6 жыл бұрын

Sorry for you but the invasion of Ireland was successive we even create a new republic there: the Republic of Connacht ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republic_(1798) ). Of course the french expedition of bare 1'000 people didn't last longer.

@user-bi9kj1oh1f

6 жыл бұрын

France has been the most important power post-Rome I was talking about a different attempt but even with that one that republic was very short lived.

@francehasbeenthemostimport9558

6 жыл бұрын

It's already amazing that an expedition of 1'000 people managed to do it

@user-bi9kj1oh1f

6 жыл бұрын

France has been the most important power post-Rome sure its impressive I guess but when they landed they were supported by Irish rebels and they had to try multiple times before landing. It's still impressive but I'm not really sure what your point is.

@vestty5802

5 жыл бұрын

The Struggle Of The People France has a few Irish regiments

1:50 no Dutch national anthem I am disappoint 3:35 mmm tasty

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

Thought I'd catch you out with this one ;)

@killeragnew

6 жыл бұрын

That was my same reaction

@oliverhees4076

6 жыл бұрын

like with Suriname in your languages of South America video

@ogorangeduck

6 жыл бұрын

WILHELMUS VAN NASSOUWE BEN IK VAN DUITSEN BLOED

@menschman1464

6 жыл бұрын

ik kan geen Nederlands spreken. ik heb google translate gebruikt

The tri colour was not inspired by the Newfoundland tri colour, in fact it was the opposite. The Newfoundland tri colour was invented by irish-canadians. And the Irish tri colour was in fact a gift from France.

Green on the tricolour represents the catholic Irish Orange represent protestant Irish. white is for peace and unity and shows that both are united as Irishmen united regardless of religion. This is as well as green being a national colour of Ireland anyway

I was always told that the Green-White-Orange stood as follows: Green at the hoist for the "Emerald Isle" and the Catholic populace, Orange at the fly for the non-Catholic populace, and White in the middle for peace between the former two. My ancestors came to these United States from Ireland either in the late 18th or very early (pre-famine) 19th centuries.

🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪

@Hideyoshi1991

6 жыл бұрын

何

@nonames5883

6 жыл бұрын

Do you know when the language in Ireland became english

@lochlainnw

5 жыл бұрын

English was never really used outside the Pale until the late 1800's as far as I'm aware (barring the plantation towns like Youghal or the ones in Offaly, and obviously the 4 Protestant counties in the North). So English never was widespread throughout the country until after the famine (genocide) when the Gaelic culture was almost too weak to survive. There had been previous efforts to stamp it out but it never worked until the English enacted the worst atrocity ever carried out on the island

@paulrayfield8419

5 жыл бұрын

Making it 100 for you

@hassana1077

5 жыл бұрын

Ivory coast 🇨🇮

The flag that the Irish rebels actually flew over the GPO on O'Connell street during the Easter rising was a field of green with 'Irish Republic' written on it in white with an orange shadowing of the letters.

@vestty5802

4 жыл бұрын

Barry Ellis fun fact their is a picture of Irish officers of the British army holding up the flag upside down after they beat the rebels as a sign of disrespect

Great video, but you left out the “irish republic” flag and the “Na fianna” /sunburst flag. There was also a flag called the “erin go bragh” but this was used at a slightly earlier date. Anyway great video and keep the great work up

Currently doing my a level course work on agriculture and industry in Russia from 1855 to 1953, it would be incredibly helpful and useful if you would consider making a video on it, also great video as always

I have to admit I actually found this series rather entertaining.

Yay! Another video!

Great video 👏🏻

Thanks for the reference to the good ol’ Pink White and Green!!

IRISH BRIGADES VIDEO!

@kieranfitz

6 жыл бұрын

Maxwell McClain which one?

Great video ! Family is part Irish - We always heard that the tricolor was designed in 1798 or so in France itself for the United Irishmen and that it was made of silk and sent to Ireland along with weapons and that it was designed by the Grand Orient Lodge of Paris and first flown over 33 the mall in Cork..To this day, well three years ago anyway I heard in S.Ireland that a lot of Irish are uncomfortable with the flag and flying the flag around homes and shops is not all that common. Germans are the same way ( part German too) because of the gold/"yellow" color and seeing it as a flag of defeat vs black/white/red.

Oh~ papa Hilbert im happy to come back to this channel after some months

How do you do your animations? Theyre simple but so effective!

I thought orange was to represent all the gingers, not the protestants... heh heh

@starhawck

6 жыл бұрын

Bullphrog 855 You, and a lot of people, buddy. :D

@g-rexsaurus794

6 жыл бұрын

It's meant to represent an Irish person, green outfit, whitish face and ginger hair.

@the_irish_anglerorourke893

5 жыл бұрын

Racists

@chobochobus

5 жыл бұрын

@@the_irish_anglerorourke893 their taking the mick calm down haha

@dullfuture9283

5 жыл бұрын

Aaron O'Rourke jheeeze calm down

A bit difficult for those with English and Indo-Iranian language. I can follow the Germanic and Romance and Indo-Iranian languages easily with English translation down. But for these languages,it is quite difficult. Is sentence formation so different compared to English or other Germanic languages in Tocharian?

I love it when you do that Dutch thing!

Can you expand your series to more flags of europe, and their history?

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

Certainly!

Most underrated flag video on youtube.....probably

Tbh i think it would be good if we had the try colour with a harp in the middle of the white(peace)

Really, I actually came just to watch Her Wilhelmus playing while the video was zoom in on to 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱 3:35 . Thanks for the treat today

It might also be interesting to note that the cross of Saint Patrick is till today used as the flag of the Puritan church of Ireland

Awesome subbed

Wait *grabs beer* ok I'm ready

Green white and gold

I had read that the tricolor was presented to the Irish by a group of French women who, understandably, sympathised with the "Struggle". Should there be a United Ireland in the coming years, I expect and hope that the traditional harp flag will fly again.

@cjon6898

4 жыл бұрын

It's not right to abandon the Tri-colour. Maybe a harp can be added to it.

The plough and the stars is my personal favourite Irish flag 🇮🇪

Yay. Fun with flags.

at 02:00 the dutch map is flipped/mirrored just to let you know.

Glad to see your horses don't skip neck day

Could you make a video on the Gaelic Feudal system?

I have a suggestion, when theres another dutch reference, can you play “Wien Neerlands Bloed” instead of “Het Wilhemus”?

Is St. Patrick's Saltire diminished on the Union flag because of the partitioning of Ireland or is it just done that way to look good?

@Damo2690

6 жыл бұрын

It is actually offset eg the lines wouldn't meet in the middle of the flag. This is done to try and show that the other two flags are not 'over' the irish cross. Same reason why st George's cross has white border around it, to show that it is not 'on top of' the Scots one.

At 1:48 i was expecting het wilhelmus to blast into my ears

3:34 ah, there we have our anthem again

Interesting. very interesting.

You should make a video about the Dutch East India Company or the British one

Wolfe Tone would be proud

There was also an all green flag with Irish Republic on it flown in 1916. Looks a lot like the Saudi flag.

@In1998able

6 жыл бұрын

But that's was to gay

@papadoc711

6 жыл бұрын

is that the one that said Irish republic on it?

@liberalaco829

5 жыл бұрын

But it could be compared easily to the old flag of Libya too.

@Craig-gq4gb

5 жыл бұрын

@@papadoc711 Yeah Green background with Irish Republic on it in Celtic font

Eastcoast Canadian here, that Newfie tricolour flag was created by the Fishermen's Star of the Sea Association, which was formed in St. John's in 1871. Though the red, white and green tricolour of the Newfoundland Natives' Society was used prior. So it could not have inspired Meagher's Irish tricolour which was first unveiled in 1848.

Hold up. What about the "Irish Republic" flag? The one with the gold writing.

You missed off the traditional Irish flag that was blue with the harp, in fact green only was added to the flag after one failed revolt. Blue is still the national colour of Ireland!

IRELAND! !!!!!!!

History With Hilbert (and atleast one Netherlands reference in every video)

"we aint no british mate were catholic" XD

@danielimmortuos666

6 жыл бұрын

Lug Lamhfhada Irish people don't like being called British, even though Ireland is a British isle, mainly because the term British is associated with 'em filthy protestant imperialist to the east and north

@wolfthequarrelsome504

5 жыл бұрын

@@danielimmortuos666 Ireland is not a british isle.

@dragondov

4 жыл бұрын

The first President of the Irish republic was Protestant, as were many leaders of the Irish rebellions...

@conlaiarla

4 жыл бұрын

@@dragondov unfortunately they were a tiny minority....pity that . The vast majority of protestants in even the Republic of Ireland still harbour allegiance to the British. Even now they maintain a certain separation from the native Irish.

@jamesmoran7785

3 жыл бұрын

@@danielimmortuos666 Ireland is not actually one of the British isles even though it says it on Wikipedia and everyone says it

The ancient Irish Gaelic colour was blue. The presidential flag today is still blue. The harp is the "Brian Boru" harp, used as a symbol of the Irish state today ( and Ryanair by chance... No connection though). Mis calling Thomas Francis Meagher as "Sir" Thomas Francis Meagher wont make you any friends in Waterford.

Did I miss the video explaining the Dutch Flag?. I wondered why the red on the Dutch flag isn't orange.

wait how were the Dutch the original rebels? there were many many more rebellions in Europe before the 80 year war... even some succesful, or did you mean rebellions that succeeded and managed to stay independant until now?

@Hilbert you can do a collaboration with Geograèhy Now on episodes Fan/Flag Friday?

Is this a re-upload or did I came from the future and am I having a déjà-vu?

@Townes.VanZandt

5 жыл бұрын

Probably a bit of both.

DETROIT!!!! My granda Sullivan is Irish. I asked her about the Ireland flag. Is my Irish flag is green, white and orange? She told me that my Irish flag is green, white and gold. Is my granda Sullivan right or is she wrong? I do not know about the Ireland flag.

I thought the traditional Irish color was blue and green was just the color of the nationalists. On the coat of arms it’s the golden harp on a blue shield and on the flag of the royal family it shows the Irish harp on a blue background is it wrong ?

I got to your video while trying to invent a HYPOTHETICAL [?!] flag of all the British Isles!!! I had a relatively tiny Mann ‘three legs’ in the middle, with also the Welsh dragon there too but a bit bigger. Then I divided the rectangle of a flag equally into three parts emanating from the Manx’s three legs ; on each of these three parts I put as far as possible ( let’s say the wind was blowing out of view small parts of each!) - simply the Irish Republic tricolour, the flag of St George for England and the flag of St Andrew for Scotland. But I got stuck for what to do with the flag of St Patrick. Mustn’t leave him out or I’ll have an Orangeman on my tail. How can I get him in without spoiling the Manx three legs pointing out to each part?

Very interesting 👍 I'm sure most Irish people today if asked would prefer a new Irish flag like the one of old, all green with the harp in its center because the orange (like it or not) is the British prods in the North of Ireland Would LOVE to see a new flag that represents the 32 counties Ireland Anyone agree?

@cjon6898

3 жыл бұрын

No. Our forefathers fought and died under the Tricolour, and we have lived under it happily all our lives with it being a symbol of peace between people of all backgrounds. It will not be changed, and any attempt to do so is treachery.

@enurii

Жыл бұрын

Definitely not I hate complex flags and our Tricolour is perfect

Thomas Francis Meagher is a distant ancestor of mine.

Fun With Flags :)

As someone who’s half Irish and half Dutch I’m not sure if I should love or hate William of orange.

@maeganbady

5 жыл бұрын

Same lol

@oran9519

5 жыл бұрын

The Love Wizard well are you Catholic or protestant

Calling the Irish 'rebels' in their own country against an occupying force? Wha!?

Please do one of cornwall

4:31 fun fact: this design is the flag of County Offaly if I'm not mistaken

@westbrit1020

6 жыл бұрын

King's county

i have not watched this yet but i feel like you only made this video because of the orange and the dutch

Éirinn go Brách ☘️

3:28 What happened in Maastricht?

Personally I love the harp flag and there's a whole story behind the history of that flag too.

Do forget to check that one out

The green in the tricolour represents the catholics in Ireland, the orange represents the Protestants in Ireland and the white represents peace between the two religions

Great video Hilbert. Judging from a lot of these comments Ireland is quite the controversial topic. "Blablabla up the ra" "Blablabla orange" "Blablabla immigration"

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

My comment section to a T. And Wilhelmus memes!

@chobochobus

5 жыл бұрын

Well no shit on that one, as long as British occupation exist in Ireland we wont stop talking about it and even when they do leave we wont forget the atrocities.

The williamite war had Irish fight on both sides just like any war involving Ireland

Irish as a people have a outstanding military record even if it wasn’t for their country 90% of the time

@vestty5802

4 жыл бұрын

flip inheck true

When there’s no Het Wilhemus after mentioning the Dutch. (Sorry if I spelled the song name wrong.)

a super white ginger redhead person sitting on grass pretty much sums it up.

William of Orange, the DUPs favourite flamboyant homosexual.

@dutchmountainsnake5379

6 жыл бұрын

Waltherus no

@dutchmountainsnake5379

6 жыл бұрын

Waltherus heterosexueel

@ghostofthelostcause2744

6 жыл бұрын

Leo Varadkar, the Republic's favorite Indian homosexual.

@westbrit1020

6 жыл бұрын

No now they love Leo he has been at a orange lodge today

@dipearbore9149

6 жыл бұрын

This is William the 3rd he was straight, his son William the 4th was a homosexual

2:04 Die Nederlands ik flipped?!?!

love this vid! im Irish btw :D

I've got the Starry Plough of the ICA hanging in my room

You should make a video about the Saint Patrick's Battalion, a group of Irish soldiers that during the Mexican-American war fought alongside the Mexicans against the Americans 😄

@JuanKuzov

5 жыл бұрын

lol

@wolfthequarrelsome504

5 жыл бұрын

I think he would ham that up also.

I can understand that the Irish were trying to unify the Catholic and Protestant Irish against the English, but it still seems strange to me that since the fighting ended up being largely Catholic vs Protestant that the Irish would keep orange on their flag, especially given how closely the Loyalists in the north were connected to orange.

@JuanKuzov

5 жыл бұрын

its called trying to court them

When padrig perse first rose the tricolour over the Dublin Post office you can clearly see it is orange at the mast first then white and green, just wondering when they changed it to green at the mast first. Recently seen the video proof of the flag being first raised on a TV show Ireland a 1000 years of history and you can clearly tell orange is at the mast first not green,even though the video is in black and white it is very easy to tell orange is at the mast first not green. The TV show is on Sky TV if anyone would like to see it.

Please make an Irish Brigade Video

What about Kelly’s Irish brigade?

GREEN , WHITE AND GOLD ! That's what I learned at School, growing up midlands Republic of Ireland .....

God! I aways laugh in the anthem

the flag of Iceland is the best flag p.s. great video

@historywithhilbert146

6 жыл бұрын

I'll cover it when I do the Scandinavian flags haha

@stefanatliorvaldsson3563

6 жыл бұрын

takk fyrir

@darthvader5830

5 жыл бұрын

Ngl it's actually sexy af

Blue also represents St Patrick as that's his coulor not green

IRELAND IRELAND TOGETHER STANDING TALL SHOULDER TO SHOULDER WE'LL ANSWER IRELAND'S CAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!

Blue for presbyterian(sorry I'm never gonna spell that right) But isnt the color of St Patick blue? Blue why wasnt it blue for catholics and Green for everyone?

@unclescott6327

5 жыл бұрын

we like orange more

What is fun is that red colour fades to orange over time, so a lot of Italian towns look like they have Irish ex-pat communities!

intresting

Uibh Fhaile .Co Offaly has that flag that was flown by the irish national league, location Midlands Ireland.

@dodgyscript8006

6 жыл бұрын

Beg your pardon great video lad.

Tis the season once again lads. Tomorrows the 12th. Get your earplugs out (or rather in).