Saturday 23 April 2016

By Frank Koller


The island has been the subject of a series of conquests since the 8th century BC, when the fearsome Celtic warrior tribes began making steady attacks on the island â€" the last of these tribes, commonly known as the Gaels (which in the local language came to mean ‘foreigner’), came ashore in the 3rd century BC and proceeded to divide the island into at least five kingdoms.

Sometime between about 600 and 150 BC, Celtic peoples from western Europe, who came to be known as Gaels, invaded Ireland and subdued the previous inhabitants. The basic units of Gaelic society were the tuatha, or petty kingdoms, of which perhaps 150 existed in Ireland.

From about 1642, Confederate Ireland's flag was green with a golden harp. During the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the Orange Order of Anglican Protestants opposed the United Irishmen, who were represented by the color green.

From around 1642, Confederate Ireland's banner was green with a brilliant harp. The three hues were joined together as an image of solidarity beginning around 1830, however not generally acknowledged until 1848. It was not until Easter Rising in 1916 that the tricolor banner was viewed as the national banner, and with the section of the Constitution of Ireland in 1937, the tricolor turned into the official national banner of Ireland.

Since Northern Ireland was partitioned from the rest of Ireland in 1921, the flag has been seen by northerners as a symbol of division rather than unity and the people of Northern Ireland usually fly a different flag. The Ireland flag consists of three equally sized vertical stripes of green, white, and orange. The flag's green stripe goes on the hoist side, the white in the center, and the orange on the outside, or fly.

The shades of Ireland's banner convey recorded importance. The green is an impression of the Society of United Irishmen, a republican association amid the 1790s. The orange is a representation of supporters of the House of Orange, who settled in Northern Ireland in the seventeenth century. The white between the green and orange is an image of peace between the two sides, reflecting Irish independence and the union of the general population of Ireland. The green on the Irish banner remains for the local individuals of Ireland, the Friendly Brothers of St. Patrick.The Flag Company Inc specialized in flag designs offered a special edition of decals and flags to memorize the history of Ireland Flag for the future.




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