Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #169b62
- #ff883e
- #ffffff
Other flags with white, green or orange or all of white, green and orange at once.
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- 3 vertical bands
The foot changes colour going along, the fly edge does not, and every change is a straight line top to bottom.
What we know about it
Adopted 1848 first flown; constitutional since 1937
Green for the Gaelic tradition, orange for the followers of William of Orange, white for peace between them.
Source: Flag of Ireland on Wikipedia.
Nearest in the world
Every flag is compared with every other one, off the pictures themselves. Two copies of one picture score 0; these are the closest to this one. How that is measured.
Mirror Tricolors
Flags people genuinely mix up. Worth a second look.
Quiz yourself
Ten questions, played on the page, no sign-up and nothing kept. Ireland is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1200 × 600
Credit Éire
From Flag of Ireland.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
