Green ensign | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-03

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The Green Ensign (Irish: An Meirge Uaine) is a historical flag flown by some Irish merchant vessels from the 17th century to the early 20th century. The flag consists of a green field with a golden harp and a canton containing either the English Flag (St George's Cross) or a version of the Union Jack.
This flag has appeared in these historical flag plates:

1685 Downham's Flag Chart
1700 Len's Flag Chart
1772 French Encyclopédie
1783 Bowles's Universal Display of the Naval Flags of all Nations
1799 Flags of all Nations
1848 Flaggen Aller Seefahrenden Nationen
1868 Johnson's new chart of national emblems
1889 Drawings of Flags of All Nations - British Admiralty
1917 National Geographic Flag BookThere remains a lively debate concerning whether the flag had any form of local official status within the British Isles or was simply an informal flag used by some merchant ships.