![]() ![]() Guinness had trademarked the harp symbol in 1876, and the Irish free state government of 1922 wanted to use the symbol they had to turn the harp the other way round. ![]() I was going to include this in the above points but found it quite fascinating. The oldest harp ever found was in 1929, and it is about 4500 years old, it was found in “Ur( more details here)”.The verb harp means to talk on and on about one subject similar to a harpist plucking the same string over and over. The word Harpa was first used around the year 600 A.D and is a generic term for stringed instruments.This older flag was first flown by Irish rebel leader Owen Roe O’Neill in 1642. ![]() Before the Irish flag you know today, we flew a green flag with a harp on it.The current design is based on the ‘Brian Boru harp’ of the 14th Century, which can be found in the museum of Trinity Colleges in the heart of Dublin. ![]()
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