That’s Not A Fleg

This is a fleg.

King George IV passing by the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin – and a specially erected ‘triumphal arch’ – in 1821. in a painting by William Tuner de Londe.

It was the first visit to Ireland by an English monarch since the 14th century.

Older readers may recall our post on the temporary arch for Queen Victoria’s visit to Dublin in 1900.

Good times.

Via the Center for Modern Literature, Materialism and Aesthetics.

Thanks Sibling of Daedalus

29 thoughts on “That’s Not A Fleg”

I think you mean George IV

Lush on January 31, 2013 at 10:29 am said:

+1
- Chompsky on January 31, 2013 at 10:40 am said:
  
  Apologies, Lush and Drawnon. Fixed now. Thanks.
tweeglitch on January 31, 2013 at 10:56 am said:

+IV

Jaysus they were a long time not even tipping across for a visit!…

funman on January 31, 2013 at 4:47 pm said:

God, wouldn’t you be rightly annoyed if you were in the cinema that day, with all that racket going on outside? Probably wouldn’t get your farthing back either.

would it not be easier to just print all the world flegs on a giant toilet roll (very apt in fact), and then nobody can get offended, apart from vegetarians who I am sure would find a way…

Nessy on January 31, 2013 at 10:22 am said:

I’m a vegetarian and I’m highly offended.. For what nobody knows or cares!
- Atticus on January 31, 2013 at 11:03 am said:
  
  I’m surprised you have the strength to get offended
  - Fieldy on January 31, 2013 at 11:40 am said:
    
    or reply for that matter
    - Nessy on January 31, 2013 at 1:27 pm said:
      
      I ate a lot of fruit this morning…

Its very unusual to see the Union flag of the State to be combined with the Royal Standard of the monachy. Must be an early form of photoshop!!!

Captain Obvious on January 31, 2013 at 11:05 am said:

Yep, they called it ‘painting’.
- Jolly on January 31, 2013 at 11:23 am said:
  
  Ha!
- funman on January 31, 2013 at 4:48 pm said:
  
  Brilliant.

The good old days, wha?

Serious question – what in the name of jaysus is a “fleg”??

I’m an ex-pat, if that helps.

Captain Obvious on January 31, 2013 at 11:04 am said:

It’s Nordy for Flag.
- funman on January 31, 2013 at 4:49 pm said:
  
  Yup. Its ‘Flag’ in broad east-belfastian.

Isn’t this Hugh Laurie’s character from Blackadder?
Hope he brought the cúpla focal for the visit.

Saw this before, over Sinead’s mantelpiece.

I don’t remember that painting in my Irish History propa..em book…hasn’t Dublin done great from independence.

cluster on January 31, 2013 at 12:47 pm said:

Number of famines = 0
- Rod on January 31, 2013 at 1:01 pm said:
  
  hey why not add a few more items to your totally biased list:
  
  number of asteroids = 0
  number of serious earthquakes = 0
  number of times England invented potato blight = 0
  number of posts on Broadsheet blaming the English for the above = 100000000000000
  - Captain Obvious on January 31, 2013 at 1:25 pm said:
    
    “I don’t remember that painting in my Irish History propa..em book…hasn’t Dublin done great from independence.” …
    Eh it’s a painting*, it’s meant to paint the whole thing in a positive light!…
    *Dramatisation…actual scene may not have occurred …
    - Bosco on February 2, 2013 at 11:13 am said:
      
      Does that go for all the pictures in me history book?

when 2 million people die of starvation in your country that generally taken as sign you’re not doing a very good job of running the place

Sminkypinky on January 31, 2013 at 3:13 pm said:

And when thousands have emigrated every year since independence (with the exception of the ‘Tiger’ years) it also indicates that every government since 1922 hasn’t done a good job of running the place

There’s another painting of the same scene by Joseph Patrick Haverty but reasons I haven’t been able to ascertain the archway depicted by him differs a lot from Turner de Londe’s.