File:Sunburst Flag (FOTW).svg
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English: Modern design of the Irish nationalist "Sunburst flag".
Based on reports at crwflags.com, although in the designs shown there, the sun's rays are alternating between wavy and straight. This design was spotted in Irish Republican marches in 2006. An earlier version of the flag (early 20th century?) can be seen here.
20th-century versions of the flag appear to have shown a half-sun "rising" either from the lower edge of the flag (1909) or from a cloud, in either a green or a blue field, or a full sun in the center of the flag, in a green field.[1] But as it turns out, Wikipedia is in the real world, and this specific design, with the quarter-sun in the lower hoist corner and seven straight rays, originally posted to crwflags.com by Vincent Morley in 1997 and uploaded to Wikipedia in 2007, was then sold as "the sunburst flag" on mugs and t-shirts. In 2020, The user Sodacan, after getting a request from an anonymous user who noted that the design on File:Sunburst Flag.svg was inaccurate. The anonymous user also noted that the file description contained a large complaint about how inaccurate it is and that because of the mistaken design's use on Wikipedia, it has now gained use in real life (this is the first few sentences of this very description though it is now modified near the end to make it a past tense). Sodacan added the correct design to "File:Sunburst Flag.svg" but also reuploaded the inaccurate design to "File:Sunburst Flag (FOTW)" (this very file) due to the use in real life. |
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| Author | Sodacan, drawn from a design by Vincent Morley, 23 March 1997, based on earlier designs going back to 1909 or 1858 |
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| current | 16:02, 3 April 2020 | | 1,000 × 500 (946 bytes) | Sodacan | Uploaded own work with UploadWizard |
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