The coat of arms of Ireland

We all know the Irish flagBut do you know the coat of arms of Ireland? It's the one in the image above, the blue and gold shield, without a drop of the famous Irish green. But it has been the shield of Ireland for a long, long time as it is believed that it was even the shield of the King of Ireland back in the 1706th century. The shield was later adopted by Henry VIII of England, when he was Lord of Ireland and when Ireland became integrated with Scotland and England in XNUMX it became part of the royal coat of arms.

Finally harp it was adopted as the emblem of the Republic of Ireland when it separated from the United Kingdom in 1922. The drawing of the harp has changed over time and has even been known to have the shape of a woman's bust, but when the republic was born in the XNUMXth century a late medieval design was adopted based on the model of the harp from Trinity College, known as the Brian Boru's harp. The blue hue of the emblem is known as "St. Patrick's Blue" and the hue actually comes from the earliest depictions of Irish sovereignty involving a woman dressed in blue.