You can find on this page the Ireland flag map to print and to download in PDF. The Ireland flag map presents the flag of Ireland in the area map of Ireland. And also the history of the flag of Ireland in Northern Europe.

Ireland flag map

Maps of Ireland flag

The Ireland flag map shows the flag of Ireland in empty Ireland map. This flag map of Ireland will allow you to know the history, origins and composition of the flag of Ireland in Northern Europe. The Ireland flag map is downloadable in PDF, printable and free.

A number of official and unofficial flags over the centuries have been flown in Ireland. One of the earliest, in use in the late 15th century, was blue with a gold harp; today it is the presidential standard of Ireland. In the 17th century the Cross of St. Patrick—later incorporated into the British Union Jack—was widely employed. White with a red diagonal cross as its mentioned in Ireland flag map, it was associated both with the family arms of the Fitzgeralds and with the Spanish Cross of Burgundy (a red diagonal cross used in Spain since the 8th century). In the mid-17th century a green flag with a golden harp, attributed to the province of Leinster, came to be recognized as the flag of Ireland even though the island was under English rule. This was one of the flags flown during the 1916 Easter Rising, which led to the establishment six years later of the Irish Free State.

In the 19th century various tricolour flags and ribbons came to be symbolic of Irish nationalism. Many of them included the colours green (for the Roman Catholics), orange (for the Protestants), and white (for peace between them). The first known vertical tricolour flag of orange-white-green dated from March 1848, but it was not until 1917 that it gained widespread popularity as its shown in Ireland flag map. The tricolour in its modern form (green-white-orange) was recognized by the constitution on December 29, 1937, and was not altered when the Republic of Ireland ended its participation in the British Commonwealth on April 18, 1949. It is often incorrectly asserted that the third stripe is yellow or gold rather than orange.

The National Flag of Ireland, a tricolour of green, white and orange, is intended to symbolise the inclusion of and the aspiration for unity between people of different traditions on this island. The flag is twice as wide as it is high as you can see in Ireland flag map. The three colours are of equal size and the green goes next to the flagstaff. The Flag was first flown from 33 The Mall, Waterford on 7 March 1848 by Thomas Francis Meagher who, in April that year stated: "The white in the centre signifies a lasting truce between Orange and Green and I trust that beneath its folds the hands of Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics may be clasped in generous and heroic brotherhood." It was flown over the GPO during the 1916 Rising.