Saint Patrick's Saltire or Saint Patrick's Cross is a red saltire on a white field. In heraldic language, it may be blazoned argent, a saltire gules. Saint Patrick's Flag is a flag composed of Saint P
Insignia of a Knight of St Patrick: Gold crowns on a green shamrock on a red Cross of Saint Patrick
Uniform and colonel's flag of the Regiment of Hibernia in Spanish service, mid-18th century
St Patrick's Saltire flying for Northern Ireland at the 2011 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo (left to right: The Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Norway)
St Patrick's Saltire flying for Northern Ireland from The Royal Barge Gloriana at the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant on 3 June 2012
The Kingdom of Ireland was a dependency of England from 1542 to 1707, and then of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800. It was ruled by the monarchs of England and then of Great Britain in personal union,
Saint Patrick's Saltire
…British invention. After its adoption by the Order of Saint Patrick, it began to be used by other institutions. When the Acts of Union 1800 joined the Kingdom of Ireland with the Kingdom of Great Britain, the saltire was added to the British flag to form the Union Flag still used by the United Kingdom. The saltire has…
English soldiers return from a battle with cattle, severed Irish heads, and Irish captives, from The Image of Irelande, 1581
Charlotte Schreiber's The Croppy Boy (1879), relating to the United Irishmen's Wexford Rebellion. A man, possibly a rebel from his green cravat, kneels before a Catholic priest who is covertly in military uniform. The church hierarchy opposed the rebellion.
Crowned harp on a farthing coin of 1744