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The arms of Ireland are a gold, silver-stringed Celtic harp (cláirseach) on an azure field.. As a region, Northern Ireland has not been granted a coat of arms, but the Government of Northern Ireland was granted arms in 1924, which have not been in use since the suspension of the Parliament of Northern Ireland in 1972, which was abolished the following year.
A green flag with a gold pike topped with a red phrygian cap, superimposed over which is a gold harp, and a gold scroll bearing the slogan "Erin Go Brah" in black beneath the harp. 1846–1848 The green silk flag of the Saint Patrick's Battalion of the Mexican Army may have incorporated the old Irish Harp flag (illustrated), which may date back ...
The Irish presidential standard. The coat of arms of Ireland and the standard of the president of Ireland are a gold (or) Irish harp with silver (argent) strings on a field of blue (azure). [39] The standard was introduced at the end of Douglas Hyde's term in 1945; [40] contemporary news reports describe the blue as "St. Patrick's Blue". [41]
The national flag of Ireland (Irish: bratach na hÉireann), frequently referred to in Ireland as 'the tricolour' (an trídhathach) and elsewhere as the Irish tricolour, is a vertical tricolour of green (at the hoist), white and orange.
It consisted of a gold cláirseach on a green background. It was associated with moderate nationalism at a time when the tricolour was confined to more radical movements. [citation needed] It is the same as the modern Flag of Leinster. It was used by the Irish team at the 1930 British Empire Games.
Fans of Tyrone (red and white) and Meath (green and yellow) on Hill 16 in Croke Park watching the teams' 2007 All-Ireland football quarterfinal.. The county colours (Irish: dathanna na gcontaetha) [1] [2] of an Irish county are the colours of the kit worn by that county's representative team in the inter-county competitions of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), the most important of which ...
St. Patrick’s Day is March 17. Celebrate Irish pride with this collection of short, funny and catchy St. Patrick's Day quotes on luck, beer, gold and more.
From the beginning of organised motor sport events, in the early 1900s, until the late 1960s, before commercial sponsorship liveries came into common use, vehicles competing in Formula One, sports car racing, touring car racing and other international auto racing competitions customarily painted their cars in standardised racing colours that indicated the nation of origin of the car or driver.