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There was a question in another thread about the difference between the Mexican and Irish colors. My avatar has the colors of the Mexican flag.
The Flag of Ireland is green, white, and orange,
Symbolism
The Flag of Ireland is green, white, and orange,
Symbolism
Flag of Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe green pale in the flag symbolises Irish republicanism dating back to the Society of United Irishmen in the 1790s.[13] The orange represents the minority who were supporters of King William III, who was of the House of Orange and originally the Stadtholder of the Netherlands, had defeated King James II and his predominantly Irish Catholic army[14] at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. His title came from the Principality of Orange in the south of France that had been a Protestant bastion from the 16th century. It was included in the Irish flag in an attempt to reconcile the Orange Order in Ireland with the Irish independence movement.[citation needed] The white in the centre signifies a lasting truce between the two cultures and a living together in peace.[15] The flag, as a whole, is intended to symbolise the inclusion and hoped-for union of the people of different traditions on the island of Ireland, which is expressed in the Constitution as the entitlement of every person born in Ireland to be part of the independent Irish nation, regardless of ethnic origin, religion or political conviction.[16][17]