Driving down Patrick’s Hill this morning, I spotted a Union Jack flying on Brown Thomas building which was a pile of stones of the former Cash’s in 1920.
City Hall had two Union Jack flags – on the new Civic Offices, and on the City Hall rebuilt in 1932 following the Burning of Cork.
Last week, I was chatting with MOC about the measures being put in place for the visit of Charles and Camilla today to Cork.
He mentioned that when Queen Elizabeth visited a few years back, he saw a Union Jack flying over City Hall. He said that it was not flying there for long as less than an hour later he looked and it was not there – he wondered if the memories of Tomás MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney tugged at someone’s conscience.
There were no such tuggings this morning – nearly 100 years on, it is now ok to fly the Union Jack.
Pondering the title for this blog post, I was brought back to the music of my teenage years which is worth a blast to bring back the memories. "Free to screw you before you screw me" | Gimme a country that's red, white and blue Gimme the British way, honest and true Gimme the chance to be one of the few Gimme-gimme-gimme-gimme-gimme Gimme a nation where people are free Free to do and free to be Free to screw you before you screw me Gimme-gimme-gimme-gimme-gimme,'cause I'm alright I'm alright Union Jack ( Fly the flag, fly the flag) Gimme a Britain that's got back the Great A race of winners not cramped by the State And only the helpless get left at the gate Gimme-gimme-gimme-gimme-gimme, 'cause I'm alright I'm alright Union Jack (Fly the flag, fly the flag) I'm alright (gimme-gimme) I'm alright (gimme-gimme) Union Jack (gimme-gimme) I'm alright (gimme-gimme) I'm alright (gimme-gimme) Union Jack (gimme-gimme) Fly the flag, fly the flag (gimme-gimme) I'm alright (gimme-gimme) I'm alright (gimme-gimme) Union Jack (gimme-gimme) Fly the flag, fly the flag (gimme-gimme) Hey! From Lyrics.com |