Per TIME, O’Neill’s rebellion used a green flag with a harp to represent the ... likely to create a shade of blue for the Irish that differed from the royal blue associated with the English.

Background: The flag was unveiled in 1914 as the flag for the Irish Citizen Army and depicts ... The ICA was also significant in including women in the rebellion; it is estimated that thirty ...

so I’d always been aware of all the flags and symbols issues but I hadn’t really thought much about an actual Northern Irish flag,” he recalls. “When I went to Cornwall for the first time ...

PRESIDENT Michael D Higgins has laid a wreath during the annual commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. It marks ...

As a rebellion involving different organisations ... course of the Rising including a number of Irish tricolours, a flag with ‘Irish Republic’ emblazoned on it and the ‘Starry Plough ...

About 1,200 Irish rebels rose up against 20,000 British troops in a doomed attempt to throw off centuries of British colonial rule. The Easter Rising may have failed in that moment, but the ...

Ships flying the flag ... The Irish famine gave rise to a movement called Young Ireland, who members swore to free their country from Britain by any means, even armed rebellion.