The three colours of our national flag are green,white and ?.

I was brought up to believe that green,white and gold were the three colours of our national flag. More recently I here people talking about orange being one of the three colours. And yet I see a 94 year old Irish tricolour from 1916 in the papers today with yellow as one of its three colours.

The 94 year old flag is depicted as being "the first symbol of the independent Republic"and flew from the top of the GPO in Dublin prior to the building been captured by the British forces.

Our national flag will always be green white and gold to me....what about the rest of you ?.

BufordTJustice (USA) - Posts: 669 - 13/03/2010 17:48:22    587280

Orange.......Represents the ' settler' community originally from scotland & England that live in the North of this island

In the event of a united ireland the tricolour is the obvious choice of flag as its colours represent both communities and white in the middle for 'peace'

Meath_bhoy (Meath) - Posts: 590 - 13/03/2010 18:16:24    587294

Its green white and orange, Nationalism-Peace-Unionism. It was given to Thomas Meagher by some French bird in the 1800's.

saffron21 (Antrim) - Posts: 138 - 13/03/2010 18:18:30    587297

saffron21
County: Antrim
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Its green white and orange, Nationalism-Peace-Unionism. It was given to Thomas Meagher by some French bird in the 1800's.

I heard that thing about some french one but 1916 i was told about,the story i heard was the irish looked for arms of the french but the french couldn't give them any but gave a green(ireland) white(peace/friendship) and yellow(french royal families colour?) to show their support for the irish.

beer baron (Cavan) - Posts: 3916 - 13/03/2010 18:34:40    587305

Meath_bhoy
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Orange.......Represents the ' settler' community originally from scotland & England that live in the North of this island



The green represents the settler community originally from France, Norway, Sweden, England, and Tunisia, white represents peace, and the orange represents the Gaelic province of Ulster and the settler's mostly from Scotland.

Well, at least SOME of us are pure Irish.

But only the Antrim ones.

patrique (Antrim) - Posts: 13709 - 13/03/2010 19:43:19    587331

Orange

dammon (Meath) - Posts: 1291 - 13/03/2010 19:52:05    587341

thats what i was told being brought up meath_bhoy

TheMonk (Tyrone) - Posts: 187 - 13/03/2010 19:52:42    587344

orange for me aswell

waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13659 - 14/03/2010 11:30:12    587487

Orange.

Royal_Girl2k9 (Meath) - Posts: 2107 - 14/03/2010 11:54:22    587501

Gold is usually only said because it sounds more poetic, its flag itself is always orange

CastleBravo (Meath) - Posts: 1741 - 14/03/2010 13:23:04    587563

http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/attached_files/Pdf%20files/The%20National%20Flag.pdf

That is a link to State's discourse of the flag. Therefore not exactly the most reliable source.

JuanVeron (Westmeath) - Posts: 1866 - 14/03/2010 13:43:45    587574

orange. end of

charlotted (Leitrim) - Posts: 598 - 14/03/2010 21:48:24    588042

Orange. The french gave america the statue of liberty and gave us a bit of cloth..

Brolly (Monaghan) - Posts: 4472 - 14/03/2010 21:58:42    588062

Our sheep look more fetching in orange than in gold!

brendtheredhand (Tyrone) - Posts: 10897 - 15/03/2010 09:35:18    588099

I thought I read in a book green for hills white for clouds and gold for the sands?

Orlaith (Derry) - Posts: 4282 - 15/03/2010 18:23:51    588913

orange.

OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 15/03/2010 21:33:28    589239

http://www.constitution.ie/reports/ConstitutionofIreland.pdf

Orange as per Article 7 of the Constitution

irishtom (Donegal) - Posts: 219 - 16/03/2010 17:11:34    589904