Flogging Molly - What's Left Of The Flag

What this video is

Released in March 2002 as a track on Drunken Lullabies — Flogging Molly's second studio album on SideOneDummy Records — 'What's Left of the Flag' arrived at a pivotal moment in Celtic punk's mainstream visibility. Written as a tribute to Dave King's late father, the song fuses Irish Republican mourning iconography with punk defiance, reflecting the band's dual Irish-American identity rooted in Los Angeles but…

Why it matters

A canonical example of early-2000s Celtic punk music video production: lo-fi visual grammar, performance-driven editing, and Irish-diasporic imagery operating outside mainstream major-label aesthetics. The video documents a key transitional moment when Celtic punk crossed from the underground into…