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starry Plough Flag

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starry Plough Flag

Seven stars on blue: the Starry Plough flag

The Starry Plough flag is a sky-blue field with seven white stars arranged like the stars of the Big Dipper, the constellation called «the Plough» in Ireland and Britain. It is one of the flags most loaded with history in Ireland, tied to the workers' movement and to Easter 1916.

Dublin, 1913

In 1913 Dublin lived through the great labour dispute remembered as the Lockout. During a demonstration of striking workers the police charged the crowd and two people were killed. Trade union leaders then founded the Irish Citizen Army to protect workers' demonstrations, and in 1914 the Army chose the Starry Plough as its flag.

The flag of Easter 1916

The first flag was different from this one: a green field, with the plough and the stars painted in yellow and silver and a golden fringe. During the Easter Rising of 1916 it flew over the Imperial Hotel in Dublin and, according to a witness, it stayed in place while the building burned. A British officer took it away as a trophy; in 1956 the Irish state bought it for the National Museum of Ireland. Conserved, it has been put on display at the museum's Collins Barracks site, in Dublin.

The Plough and the Stars

Ten years after the Rising, in 1926, the playwright Seán O'Casey, who had been a member of the Citizen Army and had drawn up its constitution in 1914, staged «The Plough and the Stars» at Dublin's Abbey Theatre: a tragicomedy set in the very days of the Rising. In 1936 John Ford made it into a film.

From green to blue

In the 1930s came the version you see here: a sky-blue field with the stars alone, without the plough. According to the National Museum of Ireland it is the version the Labour Party and the Irish trade unions still carry in their marches today.

Who chooses it

For anyone with Irish roots or who loves Ireland, for an Irish pub, for a folk music band or a St Patrick's Day party, for a theatre company staging O'Casey, for a collector of historic flags, for a museum, a school or an exhibition on twentieth-century Ireland. We sew it to order, in the size and fabric you choose above, and you see the delivery date before you pay.

Flag facts

Also known as
An Camchéachta · The Starry Plough
Validity
Current
Years in use
unknown · period 1900–1945
Use
Not applicable
Proportions
2:3
Number of colours
2
Design
Plain

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