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IRELAND

The Flag of Ireland is the national flag of Ireland^[1][2] (Irish: An Bhratach Náisiúnta), also known as the tricolour,^[3] and is a vertical tricolour of green (at the hoist), white, and orange. The flag proportion is 1:2 (length twice the width). The green represents a Gaelic tradition while the orange represents the supporters of William of Orange. The white in the centre signifies a lasting truce between the 'Orange' and the 'Green'.^[4]

First introduced by Thomas Francis Meagher in 1848, it was not until the Easter Rising of 1916, when it was raised above the General Post Office, along with a green flag with words Irish Republic in Dublin, that the tricolour came to be regarded as the national flag.^[5] Meagher was the son of Newfoundland-born mayor of Waterford, Ireland, Thomas Meagher, Jr., and his flag was inspired by the similarly-symbolic Newfoundland Tricolour created in 1843.

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