{"id":10556,"date":"2026-09-12T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev95.site\/history-on-the-street-in-ireland-and-malta\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T13:34:00","slug":"history-on-the-street-in-ireland-and-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev95.site\/ar\/history-on-the-street-in-ireland-and-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"History on the Street in Ireland and Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dev95-315795080\" class=\"dev95-- dev95-entity-placement\"><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl27862732.profitableratecpmnetwork.com\/2ad7a50e0bbc23ac6801d7b77c501463\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-2ad7a50e0bbc23ac6801d7b77c501463\"><\/div><\/div><div id=\"dev95-1764620076\" class=\"dev95-before-content dev95-entity-placement\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Stop wasting time on dead links! \ud83d\uded1 This smart platform automatically detects your device and country to give you the exact best offer instantly. Check it out now 100% free! \ud83d\udc47<\/strong><br data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-sfc-pl=\"|||[]\" data-complete=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif, &quot;Noto Color Emoji&quot;; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.profitableratecpmnetwork.com\/pvhx5mbcc?key=ff7d362db3c20bc86fad685cc94f1fc4\">\ud83d\udd17 <strong class=\"rQesXe MPyX\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-complete=\"true\" aria-owns=\"action-menu-parent-container\" data-copy-service-computed-style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif, &quot;Noto Color Emoji&quot;; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);\">[Click here]<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div>\n<p class=\"\"><em>When strolling through hot sandy Malta, strange are the sights that might startle a tourist, especially those of us with an interest in Anglo-Irish history. Among the sacred sites of domes and steeples there\u2019s an occasional red object that resembles and shares the shape of icons back home in the damp cool British Isles.<\/em><\/p><div id=\"dev95-1648288088\" class=\"dev95- dev95-entity-placement\"><center>\r\n<script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '4ba6b6513c00e0ba76511f798ae56401',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 50,\r\n    'width' : 320,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highrevenueformat.com\/4ba6b6513c00e0ba76511f798ae56401\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n\t<\/center><\/div>\n<p class=\"\"><em>Here, John O\u2019Dowd looks at history in Ireland and Malta.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"><\/p>\n<p>                <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-stretch=\"false\" data-image=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/50adfa2ae4b0cc1d786569eb\/18458214-c895-4a8c-a9d9-2caa7048626a\/20260912+960px-William_Butler_Yeats_by_George_Charles_Beresford.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"960x1370\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"\" data-load=\"false\" elementtiming=\"system-image-block\" data-sqsp-image-classic-block-image src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/50adfa2ae4b0cc1d786569eb\/18458214-c895-4a8c-a9d9-2caa7048626a\/20260912%2B960px-William_Butler_Yeats_by_George_Charles_Beresford.jpg?resize=960%2C1370&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"960\" height=\"1370\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 100vw\" onload='this.classList.add(\"loaded\")' srcset=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/50adfa2ae4b0cc1d786569eb\/18458214-c895-4a8c-a9d9-2caa7048626a\/20260912+960px-William_Butler_Yeats_by_George_Charles_Beresford.jpg?format=100w 100w, https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/50adfa2ae4b0cc1d786569eb\/18458214-c895-4a8c-a9d9-2caa7048626a\/20260912+960px-William_Butler_Yeats_by_George_Charles_Beresford.jpg?format=300w 300w, https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/50adfa2ae4b0cc1d786569eb\/18458214-c895-4a8c-a9d9-2caa7048626a\/20260912+960px-William_Butler_Yeats_by_George_Charles_Beresford.jpg?format=500w 500w, https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/50adfa2ae4b0cc1d786569eb\/18458214-c895-4a8c-a9d9-2caa7048626a\/20260912+960px-William_Butler_Yeats_by_George_Charles_Beresford.jpg?format=750w 750w, https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/50adfa2ae4b0cc1d786569eb\/18458214-c895-4a8c-a9d9-2caa7048626a\/20260912+960px-William_Butler_Yeats_by_George_Charles_Beresford.jpg?format=1000w 1000w, https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/50adfa2ae4b0cc1d786569eb\/18458214-c895-4a8c-a9d9-2caa7048626a\/20260912+960px-William_Butler_Yeats_by_George_Charles_Beresford.jpg?format=1500w 1500w, https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/50adfa2ae4b0cc1d786569eb\/18458214-c895-4a8c-a9d9-2caa7048626a\/20260912+960px-William_Butler_Yeats_by_George_Charles_Beresford.jpg?format=2500w 2500w\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-loader=\"sqs\"><figcaption data-sqsp-image-classic-block-caption-container class=\"image-caption-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"\"><em>WB Yeats by George Charles Beresford. Source: Public domain, National Portrait Gallery, available <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:William_Butler_Yeats_by_George_Charles_Beresford.jpg\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"\">Yes, Malta is a warm dry dusty paradise; a pearl in the Mediterranean. It\u2019s so far south that it almost touches <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historyisnowmagazine.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/9\/the-scramble-for-africa-then-and-now?rq=africa\"><span>Africa<\/span><\/a>. On the contrary, for an example, Ireland is an emerald on an opposite edge of Europe, shivering and glittering with wet jagged cliffs reaching towards America. Even in summer, it\u2019s bashed by the cold Atlantic and stung with a razor-sharp wind. The only image nature shares with both outposts is the sky and endless sea, albeit, one island is surrounded with deep growling colours and the other illuminated with sunnier shades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">So, to find a common denominator, some might note that both islands were graced with Ireland\u2019s Nobel-winning poet, WB Yeats. Known for rebellious theatre and love letters, it\u2019s rumoured that he meandered through Malta\u2019s capital, Valetta. However, Yeats wasn\u2019t fit for much walking and was on the resort to see a doctor. It\u2019s understood that he was suffering from Malta Fever, and didn\u2019t do much writing either. However, a first edition of his work was prized and lovingly kept at a local library. To this day, his poetry is read, studied and celebrated in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historyisnowmagazine.com\/blog\/2026\/5\/2\/the-great-siege-of-malta-1565-what-really-happened-when-500-knights-took-on-an-empire?rq=malta\"><span>Malta<\/span><\/a> but <em>no, <\/em>Yeats poetry or any other Irish writing is not what jumps out immediately at Irish tourists as they ramble through sun-drenched streets. Rather, it\u2019s something much more objectively physical and British that stirs an interest in visitors. It\u2019s a chunk of metal, a bit of a bulk that\u2019s cemented into the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As bold as the burning sun, blatantly Britannic icons are the attraction: a British post-box and phone kiosk! These relics of empire stand to attention on Mediterranean squares and street corners. They\u2019re blazingly stark naked in bright royal red polished paint beside palm trees. These metal icons are moulded with a monarch\u2019s mark and standing tall with an imperialist stance. For any historian rambling through Malta, squinting at majestic buildings and dazed by illuminated limestone, the abrupt spasms of royal red metallic street furniture are a feast for the eye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Visitors are often in awe with these colonial relics of ingenuity, marvelling at how polished they are; such a shine to put councils back home to shame. A child might think of Postman Pat with his black and white cat; children throughout Malta and the world are familiar with the cartoon characters serving the Royal Mail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Irish streets also inherited such iconic furniture but the sculptured structures were painted green or matching shades of cream long ago. Both Malta and the Emerald Isle are adorned with these metallic monuments to a British monarch, as are numerous other ex-colonies and crown territories throughout the world. Gibraltar is another Mediterranean example but remnants of the late-empire\u2019s infrastructure don\u2019t stop there. A red phone-box buried in jungle has startled many travellers in Africa. Treading through growth in Sierra Leone, a hiker could come upon a British phone-box in need of a coat of paint. It\u2019s indeed red, though blistered by sun but standing tall against towering greenery that threatens to devour it. Neglected and long out of order but, like the metal monuments in Malta, and Postman Pat, it\u2019s loved. It seems that the whole empire, or its remnants, is littered with icons from yesteryear: post-box, kiosk, clock tower, a road sign, bus stop, bus shelter with Victorian wrought-iron railings, together with lengths of railway sunk beneath a jungle floor, not to forget the odd statue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historyisnowmagazine.com\/blog\/2026\/7\/1\/how-queen-victorias-family-tree-spread-haemophilia-across-europe?rq=queen%20victoria\"><span>Queen Victoria<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historyisnowmagazine.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/23\/the-sack-of-baltimore-irelands-slave-raid?rq=ireland\"><span>Ireland<\/span><\/a> is an oddity because the street furniture is painted green or a matching shade of cream. Sometimes, a heavy repetitive coat of the thick moss colour was pasted onto a post-box. The new colouring for postal and telegraphy infrastructure erupted with Irish independence. In 1922, the Free State set about installing street names in the Irish language, and rechristening train stations to honour revolutionary leaders. However, nothing was more vibrantly stark and as immediate as painting metalwork on a street. The change of sovereignty was heralded with a thick coat of green paint. The painting of hardware in Ireland was described as the first populist act of the new parliament, the Dail Eireann in Dublin. Decoration was easy but the imprinted symbols of British monarchs were more stubborn and refused to budge; crests remained moulded in metal.\u00a0In Ireland and Malta, and indeed worldwide, lettering for Queen Victoria and King George remain inscribed and alive to this day. History leaves its mark upon the street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">While post-boxes in Ireland are green, those across the sea remain royalist red. However, there\u2019s the overlapping corner on the Emerald Isle where colours clash. It\u2019s where symbols matter. Tribal colours in Ulster are displayed as patriotically as a flag on a lamppost, changing abruptly at the Gerrymandered border: Green or Red, British or Irish, Loyalist or Republican. Some Unionists and observers alike suspect that these team colours could pose a problem if Irish unity was to proceed. History points to Britannic regalia being discoloured and some demolished: Nelson\u2019s Pillar blown-up in Dublin and Queen Victoria\u2019s statue smashed to smithereens. Could Unionists be robbed of their cultural comforts yet again? Surely, they\u2019d see red if anyone was to paint their local post box in Belfast green!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Maybe Malta, an island that\u2019s a thousand miles away, has the amicable answer. It has significantly more in common with I<a href=\"https:\/\/www.historyisnowmagazine.com\/blog\/2020\/7\/28\/the-1916-proclamation-that-helped-to-create-an-independent-ireland?rq=ireland\"><span>reland<\/span><\/a> than a post-box, or a phone-box or the love of Postman Pat with his black and white cat. Malta is declared to be the world\u2019s most Catholic country, even more than the Republic of Ireland. This tiny blessed state boasts more papist churches in relation to population than anywhere else. It has a majestic baroque cathedral that makes the Vatican look like a mere garden shed. This is where Europe stood against Arab invaders, resisted the Otterman Empire, flew the flag and held the frontline for Christendom. The course of Europe\u2019s history was decided in Malta. Ever since establishing a home for Christian knights, a springboard for crusades, and hosting the Order of Saint John, they\u2019ve been blessing themselves and going to a Catholic mass, to confession and kneeling for the Angelus at six o\u2019clock. Like children throughout Ireland, youngsters in Malta will prepare for their First Holy Communion and go on to get married in a Catholic church and maybe receive Last Rites from a priest at the end of their lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In a further similarity with republican Ireland, Malta had its own rebellion against British rule, during the time of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historyisnowmagazine.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/5\/michael-collins-a-myth-about-the-irish-independence-leaders-death?rq=ireland\"><span>Irish Troubles<\/span><\/a>. The bloody Sette Giugnio riots occurred in 1919. This resulted in, initially, a harsh suppression by the colonial authorities and then self-government being reluctantly granted in 1921. The two islands seemingly moved in similar steps at, roughly, the same time. As with the Easter Rising being commemorated in Dublin, Malta marks Sette Giugnio every year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">So, did Malta remove British icons or, maybe, go paint a post-box? <em>No,<\/em> not a bit of it. Despite its rebellion and papist allegiance, Malta was fighting for empire and its Protestant king a few years later. It held the fort for the Mother Country throughout World War Two. The island garrison in the Mediterranean was under siege. Again! Its history is littered with bombardments because of its strategic location: before and during the Roman Empire, then an Arab conquest and throughout the time of the Ottermans. As late as 1800 the island was blockaded during Napoleonic wars. So, in the early Forties it was rewarded yet again for its stubbornness, for their Maltese tendency to resist surrender. They were bold and resilient to the end. Being a mighty British defender of the sea resulted in it being bombed and bombed again. It was hit more than any other country on planet Earth. Despite being attacked mercilessly it refused to surrender; as always. It held the record for the most battered place during the war until a nuclear blast elevated poor Japan to take that most unwanted prize. At the end of an awful war the whole island was awarded the George Cross Medal for bravery and loyalty. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Some might have thought that Malta would have had enough of British colours and paraphernalia and all things empire. But <em>no!<\/em> Catholic Malta\u2019s fondness for the red British post-box and kiosk is as staunch as the Irish Protestant\u2019s appreciation for the Orange Lodge; loved, as children would love Postman Pat with his black and white cat. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Unionist or Nationalist, British or Irish, planter or Gael, take heed of Catholic rebels in Malta, proud of their Anglican steeple dominating the Valetta skyline. The tall stout Protestant church, Saint Paul\u2019s, is just down the street from scores of Catholic churches and Saint John\u2019s cathedral. Could Malta be a model for Ulster, a Catholic gesture and promise not to paint the town green again? Could voters for Irish unity still cherish nostalgia and appreciate the British post-box?\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s an important question because symbols matter. To this day, tribes fight over colours and words in Ulster, tearing down flags to burn and spit on, and whitewashing road signs into oblivion. A visitor to Malta, Carl Jung, psychologist and author of Man And His Symbols, unfolds the significance of steeples, statues, spirals and the like. Jung had an interest in the miss-mash of sacred sites on the island dating back centuries beyond the arrival of the British or any other empire. Today\u2019s tourist is presented with both prehistoric and post-Roman religious symbols. The sacred structures sit happy alongside icons of Twentieth-century modernity and telepathy. They document religion\u2019s history with domes and spikes, the symbols that Jung wrote about. It seems he did not write about the Great British phone-box, not a mention of its ornate crest to honour a monarch, but disciples of Jung regard technology as an emerging religion, as they did capitalism and all things money. They believe every religion has its symbols. Joseph Campbell, the writer and Jung-follower, suggested that modern structures, such as boastful tech towers and financial skyscrapers, reflect beliefs and are up there with the domes and steeples. Or maybe down there on a street with a red British phone-box. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Despite tourist hotels, Valetta has been spared the latest fashion in high-rise structure. It\u2019s skyline and street scene has everything it needs to reflect ancient gods, Christendom and Twentieth-century modernity. The Internet, digitalisation and virtual space-age clouds may have rendered the post-box and phone-box redundant but the old street icons demand their slot in history. They stand there, alongside church and cathedral, not in a museum. Or is Malta a living museum? Regardless of a visitor\u2019s belief, whether its ancient, modern or futuristic, there\u2019s plenty to entertain the eye of today\u2019s historian, tourist, dreamer, whoever. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Today, visitors walk in the footsteps of both Jung and Ireland\u2019s writer of love letters. Yeats is regarded as the most all-time poetic client of the Royal Mail or any postal service. He is read and quoted here. Unfortunately, he was delivered late for much of Ireland. He was a true servant to Eire through troubled times, being instrumental in making the Irish Free-state function when, as with Malta, the British released its hold. However, he remained loyal to Protestant tradition. He would probably have voted to keep his local post-box painted red. He insisted on being buried in a Protestant churchyard but despite his allegiance to English tradition he embraced, honoured, promoted and even mourned Celtic culture: faeries, banshee and all. In his famous poem, Easter 1916, he wrote of Irish nationalism: <\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><em>Wherever green is worn\u2026..\u00a0 A terrible beauty is born.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"\">\n<p class=\"\">Maybe Ireland could revisit Yeats poetry, and copy Malta, adopt iconic monuments to a monarch, keep them as an inheritance rather than symbols of suppression. 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