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Mar 7, 2021 10:36 AM
On 7 March 1848 the Irish Tricolour was first flown at 33 the Mall by Waterford-born Thomas Francis Meagher. The Tricolour was adopted as the flag of the Irish State with the achievement of independence in 1922, a decision confirmed in the present Constitution of Ireland, which was enacted in 1937. Meagher saw the flag as a symbol of peace between all the people of Ireland:
‘The white in the centre signifies a lasting truce between the ‘Orange’ and the ‘Green’, and I trust that beneath its folds, the Irish Protestant [the ‘Orange’] and the Irish Catholic [the ‘Green’] may be clasped in generous and heroic brotherhood.”