Irish pride

The corpus has no enrichment row for this concept (symbols), so it carries its label, description, aliases and provenance and nothing further. No visual traits or cautions are recorded — not because they failed to load, but because that data does not exist in the corpus.

• Celtic Cross (opens in a new tab)

  Tier 1

  Anti-Defamation League

  ADL Hate Symbols Database entry. THE ENTRY IS A FORM-LEVEL DISTINCTION, NOT A BLANKET WARNING, and both halves are quoted here because either half alone misrepresents it. The hazard half, verbatim: “The white supremacist version of the Celtic Cross, which consists of a square cross interlocking with or surrounded by a circle, is one of the most important and commonly used white supremacist symbols.” The exculpatory half, verbatim: “The Celtic Cross, as typically depicted, is a traditional Christian symbol used for religious purposes as well as to symbolize concepts like Irish pride”, and “the overwhelming use of this version of the Celtic Cross is non-extremist and, in the absence of other hate symbols, does not denote white supremacy or racism”. The page distinguishes the two by DRAWN PROPORTION: “Most renditions of the traditional Celtic Cross feature an elongated vertical axis (often accompanied by Celtic knotwork) that resembles that of other Christian crosses”, against the short version “surrounded by a circle”, and even for the short version says “although even here care must be taken always to judge it in context”. Says nothing about tattooing.

  cultural institution · retrieved 2026-08-30