Tag: flags

• Divisive politics and Northern Ireland’s obsession with flags

  

  Support Politika News on Patreon. OPINION Northern Irish citizens, whichever side of the political spectrum they find themselves on, have an undeniably unhealthy obsession with flags, or ‘flegs’. While these pieces of coloured cloth are used as symbols of cultural or political identity the world over, in few places have they provoked such controversy and […]

  Anna Gray

  12th Jul 2021

  Ireland, UK

  Battle of the Boyne, flags, history, Irish nationalism, nationalism, Northern Ireland, Northern Irish politics, politics, society, The Troubles, unionist, violence, war