The Irish Tricolour Flown for the First Time in Public by Thomas F Meagher 1848

#OnThisDay 1848 The Irish tricolour was flown for the first time in public. Thomas F. Meagher flew it in Waterford city. ‘I trust that beneath its folds the hands of Irish Catholics & Protestants may be clasped in generous & heroic brotherhood’.
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