Happy St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick’s Day and best wishes to all who are celebrating so many in Irish history who have striven for a future of equality for all peoples.

The Starry Plough flag flown by the Irish Citizen Army during the 1916 Easter Rising. Image by Rannpháirtí anaithnid, as appearing in Wikipedia, edited to add width. It is distributed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 license. See editor’s note for more details.

Editor’s note: The image in this article is the flag, the Starry Plough, that was flown by the Irish Citizen Army during the 1916 Easter Rising against English imperial rule of Ireland. The original flag’s creation is a subject of dispute but often credited to William H. Megahy or George William Russell. The image of the flag in this article is by Rannpháirtí anaithnid, as appearing in Wikipedia, edited to add width. It is distributed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 license.

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