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  2. Flag of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. List of flags of Ireland - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. List of emojis - Wikipedia

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    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

  5. Emoji have been around since 1862 — here’s the ... - AOL

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    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.

  6. Regional indicator symbol - Wikipedia

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    These were defined by October 2010 as part of the Unicode 6.0 support for emoji, as an alternative to encoding separate characters for each country flag. Although they can be displayed as Roman letters, it is intended that implementations may choose to display them in other ways, such as by using national flags .

  7. List of emoticons - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. List of flags used in Northern Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Flag used by the Ireland national cricket team. A green flag with three green shamrocks on a white and green cricket ball. Flag used by the Ireland national hockey team. Arms of the four provinces combined on a shield, with two stags on the crest and the motto "IRELAND", on a green field. Flag used by the Ireland national rugby union team.

  9. National symbols of Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and ...

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    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 ...