The harp is a symbol from Irish mythology, it's associated with the god The Dagda, he played the harp to make the seasons change.

I asked an Irish guy what the colors in the Irish flag meant. He said " the green is for the Catholics , the orange is for the protestants and the white represents the gulf of mutual incomprehension ".

Hilbert on behalf of the Irish people mad respect, no one does this kind of content of Irish history on KZfaq except for you, so thank you for sharing Irish history!

The cláirseach-on-blue flag is still the official flag of the President of Ireland, and the green version still used for the Eastern province of Leinster. I know, I know, minor details.

10:40 Sees the word 'orange' on screen in one of Hilbert's videos: immediately prepares to lower volume as soon as the inevitable Wilhelmus starts blowing my speakers out. Spoiler alert: doesn't happen! Who are you and what have you done with Hilbert?

gotta love some Irish history before bed (Irish Guy in Australia) Éire Abú. Thanks for this

As an Irish man I have to say your knowledge of our complex history is very impressive; as is your sensitive delivery of a topic that is almost impossible to discuss rationally on the internet. Great stuff!

Thanks for doing such a good job on the pronunciations! People often mangle Irish terms horribly, so getting it right deserves kudos.

Love this, it's great to see an interest in Irish history

Irish history is far more complicated than almost all Brits know and quite a lot more than most Irish too.

As a Irishman, I'm pretty proud of you doing a video on us, good job BTW.

How to summon the Irish:

Danté describes the Irish use of the harp in the 13th century. He describes the harp of Erin flag in detail. The harp is called the Anúna (An Uaithne) in ancient Gaelic mythology, and is attributed to Daghdha, the Irish father god, and Angus Óg, his son, the Irish god of love and poetry.

I'm American. My grandma was born in 1902 in Ireland. She immigrated here in 1929 and married a Canadian in 1931. She explained to me what it was to be Irish and our history. I miss her dearly.

Go raibh maith agat. Físeán iontach agus bhí an Ghaeilge go maith agat. Maith thú! ☘️

Finnegan my son, you are free now. You can pick a flag for your nation. Will you pick the Harp on green or a generic tricolor?

I love how you preserve the unique length to width ratio of the flag. The origins of that would be interesting as well.

1:40 a woman with wings ... isn't that a bit of a harpy?

The harp is the province flag of Leinster

I heard Dutch and prepared for the anthem, but nothing... Hilbert are u ok?

I drove my Saracen through your garden last night

2023: Saint Patrick's Day: An Englishman living in Friesland Who despite living in Northern Ireland for several years had no idea of the Irish tricolour symbolising peaceful coexistence, now learning this by stumbling across Hilbert again - Himself with Friesland and English background if I remember rightly from his other videos. Thank you!

Damn you Cote D'Ivoire, ripping off the irish flag like that. Shame on you!

Traditional celtic style harp on blue or green background Beautiful, design Replace that boring trickler

important note: the sinn féin of 1920ish IS NOT the same sinn féin as today

A great video as always :)

I personally have no direct connection to Ireland but I do have a particularly developed interest in the fascinating history and culture of Ireland and the British Isles. Thank you for the very informative video!

Pronunciation actually quite impressive.... quite a surprise! Nice job👌

I thought that the title "Lord of Ireland" was bestowed upon the English King himself, and the nobleman appointed as Administrator was called "Lord Lieutenant of Ireland"

I disagree with a few things in this video, for example blue is still today and always has been the national colour for Ireland, since the days of the old Irish kingdoms. Also I have done alot of music here in Ireland and have friends who are harpists, your history of the Harp is a new one to me and them. But good video.

what a channel, i cannot stress how great this stuff is. your cadence is a thing of beauty👌

Great video, always look forward to your new uploads

Big kudos for researching pronunciations properly - even Tom Scott got the pronunciation of harp wrong (and got the Scots version not Irish!) Thomas Francis Meagher raised the flag on the Mall in Waterford, and I know the guy each year who reenacts him - he grows the moustache each time! Where I am we'd pronounce his surname as one syllable, like Johnny Marr, we'd just stretch out the vowel slightly. GRMA Hilbert Worth noting the blue used is St Patrick's blue, and is the official colour of Ireland used (if you look at the President's seal). Green became intertwined later on for all the reasons in the video, especially as blue features on the British flag it could be distinct that we became independent.

Your pronunciation of Gaelic (et.al.)are a great part of your videos. It actually lead to my binging of your videos and subscription. I think 🤔 every video you make should include this excellent talent of yours. Perhaps a key phrase in the beginning and another to reward those watching the whole subject. Semper Fidelis, cousin.

Damn that's gonna be a long flag video... And I love it

Jesus, like 5 of my favourite channels have all uploaded 20 minute videos in the last hour. This is a conspiracy against my free time

No matter how hard De Valera tried the father of the Irish Republic is Michael Collins!

I would like to point that There actually another flag that they use however it was only Used in the Easter Rising. This was the Irish Republic Flag which like the harp flag has a green background but what make it different than the other two flags this one was emblazoned with the words Irish Republic in gold and white.

Great video, I knew about the harp flag with the blue background but never knew all the details, good on ya very educational, well done ✌💚☘

Nice Ivory Coast flag at the beginning. The golden harp on a green background is still used as the flag & coat of arms of the province of Leinster (East). The golden harp on a blue background is used as the Presidential flag. Also the 'South' became the Irish Free State (Saorstát Éireann), not the Republic in 1922, but all of that shite would assumably need its own video, what with the Irish Civil War and all.

Excellent information. I often wondered about the logo on Ryanair planes. Now I know. Thank you.

According to wikipedia The flag contains information The green is for Catholicism The white is unity The orange is for Protestant Ulster

A Fantastic Video As Always Hilbert.

@History With Hilbert, a couple of corrections/clarifications: 1) James & William: James II converted to Catholicism even before he ascended to the throne, and upon the latter declared religious tolerance without exception (the one declared after his overthrow excluded Catholics). William was a reluctant sectarian as well, offering religious toleration to Catholics in the Peace of Limerick, only to be vetoed by Parliament in London. The pope endorsed William because he was more worried about the Gallican Heresy (James was beholden to Louis XIV) than Protestant persecution. 2) The Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1922 created an autonomous Irish Free State in the south. Independence would not be declared and recognized until 1948 (in a photo finish with India and Israel).

Thank you for actually taking the time to research proper Irish pronunciation

Thanks! missed your videos the past few weeks. Thiw one was awesome. extra awesome because I'm part Irish

Good stuff man nice to get a bit more knowledge about my Country.

Well impressed with your pronunciations-good work Seán.👍✌

Talk about the St. Patrick’s Battalion during the Mexican-American War they also used the harp with the green field as a battle flag.

The harp is a fine flag, but I'm more partial to the sun brust flag myself. The harp as a instrument god knows how far back in human history that goes, but as a flag is solely Irish similar to how saltire didn't originate in Scotland but is considered scottish with blue and white. Also the united Irishmen didn't invent the green harp flag its origins go back to the confederates and Owen Roe O'Neill, it was a commonly used by the Irish long before the united Irishmen.

"This has been a rather long video"! ... it flew by it was that captivating! ... I'm gonna watch it again!

Sinn Fein was not really involved in 1916, the English press associated Sinn Fein with Easter 1916, but they were only tangentially involved. The whole thing was organized by the Irish Republican Brotherhood with the help of the Irish Citizen's Army and Cumann na mBan, all of which were Republicans, whereas the original Sinn Fein of Arthur Griffith (ironically) was for a dual monarchy, and wanted something like the Free States but for all or Ireland.

I love the harp flags, so much more original than tricolors. Fun fact 'cruit' is an early Irish word for a harp and the phrase "cruit cen chéis" means a harp without a plectrum (or maybe strings, no one is sure) and means something useless.

Respect from Ireland man, one of the few British people i respect. Take care and keep on keepin on man.👍

An excellent video I've now subscribed to the channel! The only criticism would be that it would have been more impactful to have presented it from the Irish viewpoint rather than a slightly English stance. Thanks for a good effort!!

How to Draw the Irish Flag: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o9SDmsuSmNPamoE.html

Great video. Excellent Irish language pronunciation. @8:50 the United Irish were not just simply another outfit of patriots. They were ideologically republican, secular and pluralist. Or at least the leadership was. Sectarianism was found amongst the rank-and-file. As stated in their name, they wanted to unite Catholic, Protestant and Dissenter (i.e. Presbyterian) into the common name of Irish. The flag seen at @1:14 is seen today as the flag of Hibernianism, a conservative Irish nationalism, popular in the Irish community in the US, and parts of rural Ireland. Displaying this flag is purposefully communicating an Ireland not republican, secular and pluralistic.

thanks for taking the time to learn how to pronounce some for the terms used in this video, you sound more fluent than I do. the change of blue to Green is rather simple Irish Colour Blue: Royal Irish Colour Green: Rebel in 1916, the Irish tri-colour was the flag used by the Original Sinn Fein (ourselves), the British wrongly report that Sinn Fein had been one of the guide hands of the upraising- at one point a Group of IRB plant the Tri-colour on a building that have been abandoned during the fight, and a British Gunboat started to shell said building (they thought it was the GPO) which were the idea is believed to come form. And because of the British reaction to the easter Raising (shooting a Irish tied to a chair because he could stand), public opinion switched to the Rebels and Sinn Fein (who weren't even involved in the raising ) nitpick 1922 the Irish Free State is formed as Dominion of the British Emprie 1936: the Irish free State declares itself independent and renames itself to Ireland 1948: the UK recognize Irish independence and started to referring to the Ireland as Eire or the Republic of Ireland when dealing with it - there was an instance during the Signing of the founding Document of the Council of Europe, where the British representative wanted Ireland to be denoted as the republic of Ireland not Ireland, the Irish representative refused and the other nations backed Ireland.

Cool info!

Cool video. I would have never guessed the meaning of the colors. Very interesting.

Interesting. I'd previously heard that the tricolour was green, white and gold as the first colour was associated with an independent Ireland and the white and gold came from the Catholic Papal flag (the colour being closer to gold than orange).

Foot note: The troubles in Ireland started again in 1969 when the RUC police removed an Irish tricolour from a shop in Belfast because it was illegal to fly the tricolour.

Great vid 💚

Thanks for that vid. Very informative even for an Irish man.! Always thought the tricolour was from the Easter up rising. But no it had a much older history.💚🇮🇪☘

You learn something every day. Thank you. The saltire is the national flag of Scotland and the Lion Rampart the original royal standard. St George's cross is the national flag of England and the three leopards the original royal standard. At the forming of the UK the Union Jack incorporated St Patrick's cross. I have always assumed that the said St Patrick's cross was the national flag of Ireland because of this (and the harp some ancient Irish royal standard). Perhaps you could do another short video to explain the status of St Patrick's cross, historically.

I know this is a sensitive issue , but I'm genuinely curious to know if there will be any celebrations of 1922 in 2022 in the Republic of Ireland ? It will be the centenary of independence of sorts but also the anniversary of partition. We never marked the 300th anniversary of 1707 in Scotland because it was reckoned to be too provocative. Also it's not that long since my local town in the west of Scotland was all closed up on a Saturday as it hosted a big Orange Walk.

1603 was the Union of the Crowns. Actual Union was 1707. Scotland and England

Your Irish pronunciations are really good, great job

When I see the blue with the harp I think of the Leinster Rugby Team

"Cruit" is still used in Scottish Gaelic today, e.g. "cruit-chorda" = "harpsichord". The Gaelic root "cruit" is similar to the English word "create" and is part of words that incorporate that meaning, such as "cruithear", ("creator"). The harp may be so-called because it creates music. It is thought that the aboriginal Irish people originally called themselves, collectively, the "cruithin". This may have meant something like "those created [by a god]" or more simply, "people". Interestingly, the first foreigner to record a visit to Great Britain, Pytheas of Massalia, stated that the name of the islands was the "Pretanikai" Islands, and the natives told him they were "Pretani", which is just the P-Celtic equivalent of "Cruithin"! So it is from Pytheas' Greek rendering of the P-Celtic words that we have "Briton", "Britain", and "Brittanic". However, when the Irish Gaels came to Scotland centuries later, they were using the word "Cruithneach" to mean either "Pict" or "Briton", and this seems to indicate that the word had changed its meaning, and by then it may have meant "stranger" or "foreigner". To complicate matters, "cruithneachd" rather bizarrely means "wheat", (perhaps from the creation of seed), so that the Irish Gaelic term for a Pict may instead have come from the fact that some Britons grew wheat, whereas the Irish (at that stage) did not. If so, the Irish Gaelic newcomers to Scotland were bundling the Picts together with P-Celtic Britons much further south, because there was then no variety of wheat that could grow so far north. Now are you sound asleep? Good!

The various flags of the island of Ireland are vary interesting. I would be interested to watch and learn about the origins of the sunburst and starry plough flags in particular as both has different colours and different versions. Also who used and uses it and it's meaning. There are others that would also be interesting. Enjoyed the video and information.

Imagine if history lessons at school were taught based on flags? Can't believe that I had zero Irish, Welsh or Scottish history at school. I only realised that the Union Jack used to not include the St Patrick's Saltire when I watched Pirates of the Caribbean..

who here played ck3 tutorial and managed to unite ireland?

This is a really good presentation but I must point out things in it that I believe are incorrect. The United Irishmen were an amalgam of Catholics and Protestants and not just led by a Protestant. The difference being that the Protestants were deserters who were also discriminated against like the Catholics were. Only Anglicans were not discriminated against. The next one I'm not so sure of but I believe that Sinn Fein didn't support the 1916 Rising

The gold harp on a green ground is the true ancient flag of Ireland. The modern tri-colour is the flag of the modern Republic of Ireland.

Another great analysis of the change of national emblems. Love the content of your channel. I was wondering if the change of colour of the harp flag actual happened until you displayed the royal flag with the lions and the blue harp. My reasoning was that in Welsh (can't vouch for Gaelic) the word for Blue and Green has been changed. In modern Welsh 'Glas' means blue but it used to mean green for some reason I don't know. Anyway that's not so relevant. When you pronounce the name Irish name Maher you almost don't pronounce the 'h'. So it becomes almost Ma'er.

I think it's very unlikely that the word Cláirseach entered Ireland as late as the Dal Ríadan period given that it's a key element in Irish folk tales going back much much farther. Also, trying to draw a link between Cruit and Cláirseach is a bit tenuous. Cruit ultimately comes from the British word for the island of Britain: Prydain. In Q-celtic the P becomes replaced with a hard Q (or "c") and we get Crydain. Irish is notorious for knocking the endings off words so it's an easy jump from there to Cryt or Cruit. The word Prydain dates back to at least the third century BC, which was long long long before the Dal Ríada emerged or there was any serious Gaelic colonisation of scotland. The common proposed etymology for Prydain is "Pritani" meaning "painted people," and indeed classical writers do attest the British were fond of prominent tattoos. The word cláirseach seems to relate to clár, meaning an organised work surface, suggesting the original instrument going by that name was more like a lyre.

Not verry low key subliminal this Guinness commercial 😉😂 Next one about Frysk Hynder? 😜🍻

Great attempts at the pronunciation!👍👍

I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!!!

At about 9 minutes when mentioning the French revolution(s) you used "La liberté guidant le peuple ", it is a bit anachronistic because depicting the revolution of the "trois glorieuses" aka the revolution of 1830. No big deal but you know, wrong révolution, sorry we have so many

"So raise the Harp of Erin, boys, the flag we all revere, the land of our adoption and the Irish volunteer" It might not be Ireland's flag anymore, but a couple of my friends in the New York National Guard were holding it up in front of the U.S. Capitol last week.

I love both your flag videos and the Celtic-related videos, so this is ideal! That picture at 9:27 is particularly fascinating. I'm of course especially curious how did Polish Eagle end up there? Was it just a sign of solidarity just after the Third (final) Partition and admiration to people like Kościuszko or did some Poles actually take part in the Irish uprising? Edit: I did some searching online and apparently this picture shows a celebration of the Bastille Day, 1792 in Belfast. So it is rather in the period leading to the 1798 Rebellion, still immensely interesting though. In the context of the situation in Poland, it would be just after the Russian invasion that abruptly ended the progressive constitutional reforms (and later led to the Second Partition, Kościuszko Uprising and the Third Partition). Also, as I said before, it would be really great if you would make such a video about the flags of Belarus. I realize that at this point I'm like Cato calling for the destruction of Carthage, I hope it's not annoying.

I read once that it was supposed to be blue instead of green as that was the colour St Patrick wore but decided to have it orange instead as you described

Hi Hilbert, I was wondering if you ever heard of the Oera Linda-bok. It's a piece of Frisian mythology.

Imma just guess that the tricolor is inspired in part by the French tricolor.

Great video thanks 👍

Great job. You're Irish pronunciation of the name for a harp had a Galway Irish type of pronunciation.

Nice video. Some thoughts on the harp; You didn’t comment much on the role of harp in Irish music and cultural heritage. While harp and drum are part so are the pipes. They share the latter with Scotland, though each culture has different forms of pipes. The harp is ancient, derived from the lyre of antiquity, a distant cousin to both guitar, violin and other string instruments. Music is a core feature of Irish culture much enjoyed by all.

The Irish tricolour the flag of the Irish repuplic, is actually a flag of Unity using green of celtic-gaelic tradisions, white representing peace and orange enccompassing the protestant tradition ... it is a flag of unity.

Two questions: Are you sure Eoghan Ruadh Ó Néill used a harp with the 'winged maiden'? My understanding is that the winged maiden version only came about in the late-17th century and Ó Néill was sailing in 1642. While United Irishmen used green and referred Ireland as the Emerald Isle and green was associated with rebellion, Eoghan Ruadh Ó Néill used a green flag in the previous century, so mustn't the origins of the green association go deeper into history?

Great video on the Irish Flag. This is just an FYI, not a criticism. Ireland did not become independent from England in 1922, it became a Free State (except the North) similar to Canada or Australia. Independence came December 29, 1937. Ireland became a Republic in 1948.

Shout out to Thomas Francis Meagher... watching this now living about a thirty second walk away from his statue in Waterford...my boiii:):)

The music used is wrong The first piece is beethoven's egmont overture

Half way through and I'm having trouble following this. Can you take the time to tell me who won the auction you were calling during this clip?

I've not had this conversation directly, but my Irish friends have told me that the flag is not described as green, white, and orange, but rather green, white, and gold. I was surprised, because I'd had the flag explained to me the way you explain it, but I guess in parts of the island that don't currently have a significant population of Protestants to have peace with (the people I've heard this from have been from Munster and south Connacht), they'd rather forget about that part of their history.

The tricolor is an awesome flag, great symbolism.

3:10 The Dál Ríata were IRISH. They invaded scotland from Ireland. Scotland got its gaelic culture FROM IRELAND not the other way around.

Your pronounciation is really good!

Absolutely brilliant, well done. Ar son saoirse na hEireann!