User:Jnestorius/Four provinces flag

See Four Provinces Flag of Ireland and Cross-border flag for Ireland.

Individual province's arms
G. D. Burtchaell et al (1902) explain parts in relation to the RSAI crest.

Critiquing S. M. Collins on medieval v [early?] modern

Ulster King of Arms c.1700 [possibly some later additions]
 * Connacht [p. 16 no. 10] "p pale A. & Az a demi eagle disp p pale @ & a Sinister Arm conjoyned wth it at the sholders holding a Sword Pr sleeved A";
 * Ireland Kingdom [p. 32 A] "P [^ Port~:] Jupiter an Irish harpe Sol stringed luna"; note [p. 33 A] "The ancient Armes of this kingdom were S. a King sitting crosse-legged in his throne, holding in his right hand a Lilly O."
 * Leinster [p. 42 no. 4] "Vert an Irish harp O. stringed A.";
 * Meath "county when governed by a king" [p. 46 no. 17] "Azur a King sitting on his Throne holding forth his Right hand in the sinister a Scepter all Proper"
 * Munster [p. 47 no. 3] "Az 3 eastern diadems Pr" with sketch;
 * Ulster [p. 70 no. 6] "O a lion ramp double queue G rather Argent a dexter hand couped Gules rather Or a cross Gules on an escutcheon Argent a dexter hand couped Gules" [in 3 different hands, followed by signature "@@ Ulster" in 3rd hand;

2022-4 lamppost outbreak
https://www.lmfm.ie/news/lmfm-news/sheridan-calls-for-clarity-after-provincial-flags-appear-in-co-louth/

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/flag-sightings-1.4817654

https://www.donegallive.ie/news/donegal-life/860498/do-you-know-what-this-flag-represents.html

https://www.longfordleader.ie/news/newsletter-longfordlive/1412272/longford-county-council-to-take-action-on-illegal-flag.html

Table
In the following table, columns 1, 2, 3, 4 correspond to the following quarters of the shield:

Killester Garden Village book cover has UMLC Saltire

Unattested orderings

 * CLUM

Uncentred circle
Where the arms appear on four sides of a monument there may be no "front" of the monument. The possible orderings depend on fixing, say, Connacht and proceeding clockwise.
 * CLMU
 * The National Monument, Grand Parade, Cork (Connacht faces SW, central figure faces N)
 * O'Connell monument, Dublin (Ulster is "front" and faces south, Leinster faces east)
 * CMUL
 * Rotunda, City Hall, Dublin.
 * CMLU
 * 2013 "The Gathering of Stones" monument, Lough Boora Discovery Park, Offaly

Nonstandard arms

 * 17th-century map of Galway (with arms of Meath in escutcheon, and De Lacy instead of De Burgo arms for Ulster). Linearly at at Mu-C-Me-L-U; Quarterly Mu-C-U-L with Me escutcheon; perhaps the "standard" conversion of linearly to quarterly is clockwise nw-ne-se-sw rather than readingwise nw-ne-sw-se?

Dublin for Leinster, Galway for Connacht
Francis Joseph Bigger's 1912 article "The Arms and Flags of Ireland" rejects the received Connacht arms as an ugly British imposition unknown in Connacht; he also rejects the Leinster arms because those conflict with the arms of Ireland (he rejects Saint Patrick's Blue as a "fake colour"). Thus he adopts the Galway and Dublin symbols which he interprets as Gaelic. Long version also says Ulster has white not yellow field.
 * Rug in the Royal Dublin Society Council Chamber, designed by Lucius O'Callaghan and made in 1928 by the Dun Emer Guild.
 * Ulster—Galway city—Dublin city—Munster
 * Scott Medal This 1925 example
 * 1964 Donegal Carpets commissioned by New Ireland Assurance
 * Ulster—Dublin city—Galway city—Munster
 * "The Arms of Ireland and Her Four Provinces", embroidery in Orange Hall Lodge, North Toronto (with gold-harp-on-green for Ireland in the centre).