Significance

• The colors in the Irish flag have great significance: the green is for the Gaelic history, and the orange is for William of Orange, who ruled Ireland after the Glorious Revolution. The white stripe in between the two represents a lasting peace between the two factions.
  
  

Ivory Coast

• The Ivory Coast's flag bears a striking similarity to the Irish flag. It has the same colors, but they are in reverse order.
  
  

First Use

• The flag was designed by Thomas F. Meagher in 1848, but it wasn't used as the Irish national flag until 1918, after the Easter Rebellion.
  
  

Misconceptions

• The orange in the flag is sometimes called gold or yellow, most commonly in poems--possibly in an effort to deny the acceptance of William of Orange's initial rule. By legal standards, it is orange.
  
  

Earlier Flags

• The predominant earlier flag was a green background with a harp in the center of it, but this symbol was contested when William of Orange assumed the throne.