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An Irish Banner I made

27th November 2023

Irish Banner

This is a banner I made to combine my 3 favourite Irish flags in part because I was arguing with some free-stater on the internet about how much I hate tricolours. Those 3 flags are, in order of how much I like them, 1: The Sunburst flag, used by the IRB in the 1850s, the Irish Republic Flag, used by the IRA in the 1910s and 20s, an the 4 Irish provinces flag, which was never officially used (to my knowledge).

The Irish text says "Le gean ar ghaeil chun bás nó saol", it's part of the current national anthem and means something along the lines of "With a smile upon the Gaels, to Death or to Life" (in case you were unaware the Gael are the main ethnic group of Ireland).

The Five Coat of Arms at the bottom are the Coat of Arms of the five historical Irish Provinces, from Left to Right there are: Munster, Leinster, Meath, Connaught, and Ulster (I ordered them based on geography, with Meath in the middle (which it was both historically and geographically accurate) and the rest orbiting around it).

I was thinking of rotating the base 90 degrees to make it a regular flag, but I couldn't find a way to make the provincial COAs work, so I didn't bother.