Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1917 — Irish Flags. [ARTICLE]

Irish Flags.

Since soonjer or later home rule will be a fact in Ireland, the question of an Irish Hag is one which should be settled as rapidly as possible. A good deal of thought has been given the subject since the passing of the home rule act. Apparently the proposals which have met with most approval are a red St. Patrick’s cross on a white ground, charged with four shamrocks and a “golden sunburst on a blue ground." The latter was the banner of Fionu MacCwnbalFs Fenians. Another design which has supporters consists of three golden crowns on a blue ground, part of the arms of Munster. This was Ireland’s national emblem from the twelfth century until the three were replaced by the harp, by order of Henry VIII. Nobody has proposed green as one of the colors; green first being used by the United Irishmen in 1798 as an “amalgamation” of the orange of the North and the blue of the South, blue being Ireland’s own heraldic color. Christian Sceince Monitor.