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Flag Date Use Description 1922–1973: Personal flag of the governor of Northern Ireland.: A Union Jack defaced with the coat of arms of Northern Ireland.: 1924–1972: The Ulster Banner, also known as the Ulster flag or the Red Hand of Ulster flag, was the flag of the Government of Northern Ireland between 1924 and 1972.
The green harp flag, first used by Eoghan Ruadh Ó Néill in 1642. The colour green became further associated with Ireland from the 1640s, when the green harp flag was used by the Irish Catholic Confederation. Likewise Green ribbons have been worn on St Patrick's Day since at least the 1680s. [22]
Unicode 16.0 specifies a total of 3,790 emoji using 1,431 characters spread across 24 blocks, of which 26 are Regional indicator symbols that combine in pairs to form flag emoji, and 12 (#, * and 0–9) are base characters for keycap emoji sequences. [1] [2] [3] 33 of the 192 code points in the Dingbats block are considered emoji
Flag of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland: A Union Flag defaced with an Irish Harp. Until 1973: Personal flag of the governor of Northern Ireland: A Union Jack defaced with the Coat of arms of Northern Ireland. 1922–1956: Flag of the governor-general of the Sudan: A Union Flag defaced with a white disc surrounded by a wreath of laurel.
The flag of Ireland is a tricolour of green, white and orange, first flown in 1848. The colours stand for Irish Catholicism , Irish Protestantism , and peace between the two. Although it was originally intended as a symbol of peace and ecumenism , the tricolour is today seen by some Irish unionists as a symbol of Irish republicanism and the ...
For the first two centuries of this period, this was mainly a rivalry between putative High Kings of Ireland from the northern and southern branches of the Uí Néill. The one who came closest to being de facto king over the whole of Ireland, however, was Brian Boru , the first high king in this period not belonging to the Uí Néill.
Likely a misprint, The New York Times is responsible for the first use of an emoticon – :) – when they printed a transcribed copy of a speech given by President Abraham Lincoln in August 1862.
These emoticons first arose in Japan, where they are referred to as kaomoji (literally "face characters"). The base form consists of a sequence of an opening round parenthesis, a character for the left eye, a character for the mouth or nose, a character for the right eye and a closing round parenthesis.