Teaching Resources
Each year since 2015 the Foundation has worked with the Irish Independent to publish an annual supplement that includes updates on the Foundation’s activities, highlights of what our community of schools have been doing to celebrate the Irish flag and its message, educational and learning resources relating to the Flag and its history.
The collaboration between the Thomas F. Meagher Foundation and the History Teachers’ Association of Ireland has produced a series of lesson plans over the last number of years. Topics have included a study of the 1916 Rising, The War of Independence, Partition, Women in History and the Cultural Identity of Unionism. Along with a number of profiles of individuals such as Patrick Pearse, Eamon de Valera, Countess Markievicz and John F. Kennedy.
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Flag Day Quiz
Have some fun with our Flag Day Quiz available to download here.
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- 7TH MARCH 1848
- 33 THE MALL, WATERFORD CITY
- THE 69TH REGIMENT OF THE IRISH BRIGADE – THE FIGHTING IRISH
- THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG, MARYLAND, SEPTEMBER 1862
- GOVERNOR OF THE MONTANA TERRITORY
- JOHN MITCHEL, YOUNG IRELANDER
- ARTICLE 7 “ THE NATIONAL FLAG IS A TRICOLOUR OF GREEN, WHITE AND ORANGE” BUNREACHT NA HÉIREANN, CONSTITUTION OF IRELAND.
- PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY
- THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT
- REVEREND MICHAEL CAVANAGH, CHURCH OF IRELAND PRIEST-IN-CHARGE OF THE KENMARE AND DROMOD UNION
- THE NATIONAL FLAG FIRST FLEW AT CROKE PARK FOR THE ALL IRELAND FOOTBALL FINAL ON DECEMBER 17TH 1916 WEXFORD VS MAYO.
- WHEN DISPLAYED ON A PLATFORM THE NATIONAL FLAG SHOULD BE ABOVE AND BEHIND THE SPEAKER’S DESK.
- SINCE THE 101STÂ ANNIVERSARY OF THE EASTER RISING 13THÂ APRIL 2017.
- PROSPECT FLAGS
- THE IRISH TRICOLOUR WAS RAISED FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN JULY 1928 WHEN DR. PAT O’CALLAGHAN BECAME THE FIRST CITIZEN OF AN INDEPENDENT IRELAND TO WIN A GOLD MEDAL IN THE HAMMER EVENT AT THE GAMES IN AMSTERDAM.
- NIALL HORAN
- AN IRISH TRICOLOUR TRAVELLED TO THE MOON AND BACK ON BOARD THE SPACECRAFT AMERICA IN DECEMBER 1972.
- THE FIRST IRISH TRICOLOUR WAS PLANTED AT THE SOUTH POLE BY MIKE BARRY IN 2004. (98 YEARS EARLIER ANOTHER KERRYMAN TOM CREAN FLEW A FORERUNNER TO THE TRICOLOUR, ON HIS SLED ON THE DISCOVERY EXPEDITION IN 1902)
- THE NATIONAL FLAG SHOULD NEVER BE DEFACED BY PLACING SLOGANS, LOGOS, LETTERING OR PICTURES OF ANY KIND ON IT, FOR EXAMPLE AT SPORTING EVENTS.
- PACKIE BONNER, HENRY SHEFFLIN, NIAMH BRIGGS, COLM COOPER, SANITA PUSPURE, CORA STAUNTON, ZAK MORADI AND MANY MORE
