Template:Country data Republic of Ireland

Template documentation

Template:Country data Republic of Ireland is an internal data container not intended to be transcluded directly. It is used indirectly by templates such as flag, flagicon, and others.

Standard parameters

Parameter name	Value	Meaning
alias	Republic of Ireland	Main article name (Republic of Ireland)
shortname alias	Ireland	(optional) Display name to be used for the wikilink, if alias is a disambiguated article name, for example
flag alias	Flag of Ireland.svg	Image name (File:Flag of Ireland.svg, shown on right)

Flag variants

Label	Flag image (40px)	Image name
1937		Flag of Ireland (WFB 2000).png
2004		Flag of Ireland (WFB 2004).gif
army		Flag of the Irish Defence Forces.svg

Military ensigns

This nation's naval ensign is the same as its national flag, so Template:Navy produces the following:

• {{navy|Republic of Ireland}} → Irish Naval Service

This template includes an air force ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Air force:

• {{air force|Republic of Ireland}} → Irish Air Corps
• {{flagicon|Republic of Ireland|air force}} →

This template includes an army ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Army:

• {{army|Republic of Ireland}} → Irish Army
• {{flagicon|Republic of Ireland|army}} →

Redirect aliases

This template can also be used via an alias name (implemented as a redirect to this template):

Alias name	{{flag|alias}} output	{{flagcountry|alias}} output
IRL (view)	IRL	Ireland

See What links here for a full list of redirects.

Example usage

• {{flag|Republic of Ireland}} → Republic of Ireland
• {{flagicon|Republic of Ireland}} →
• {{flagcountry|Republic of Ireland}} → Ireland

Using a flag variant

• {{flag|Republic of Ireland|1937}} → Republic of Ireland
• {{flagicon|Republic of Ireland|1937}} →

Using a redirect alias

• {{flagicon|IRL}} →
• {{flagcountry|IRL}} → Ireland
• {{flag|IRL}} → IRL

Related templates

Please see the following related country_data templates:

• Template:Country data IrelandIreland
• Template:Country data Irish Free StateIrish Free State

TemplateData

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TemplateData for Country data Republic of Ireland

This template should not be used directly. It is used indirectly by flag templates such as Template:Flag and Template:Flagicon. See Category:Flag template system for a full list of flag templates and Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template for further documentation.

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
No parameters specified