Flags can come to mean very different things to different people, and very different things than the people who designed them intended.
Of course
HOWEVER
isn't it the most neoliberal shit to rebrand and not own your past? If we do 100 years of good irelanding now, the flag could mean somthing else.
Flag 2.0 negates history - if the union jack was changed tomorrow would it be fair on a global scale to not, as the saying goes, own one's own shit?