Flag of Ireland

The flag of Ireland is the national flag and ensign of Ireland. The flag itself is a vertical tricolor of green (at the hoist), white and orange.

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So take it down from the mast, Irish traitors,
It's the flag we Republicans claim.
It can never belong to Free Staters,
For you've brought on it nothing but shame. ~ James Ryan

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In valley green, on towering crag
Our fathers fought before us
And conquered 'neath the same old flag
That's proudly floating o'er us.
- Peadar Kearney, "A Soldier's Song" (1909)

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IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN: In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.
- Proclamation of the Irish Republic (1916)

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So take it down from the mast, Irish traitors,
It's the flag we Republicans claim.
It can never belong to Free Staters,
For you've brought on it nothing but shame.
- James Ryan, "Take It Down from the Mast" (1923)

External links edit

Encyclopedic article on Flag of Ireland on Wikipedia
Media related to National flag of Ireland on Wikimedia Commons