Template:Country data Ireland

Template documentation

This template contains data that applies to the island of Ireland. For the sovereign state, see Template:Country data Republic of Ireland.

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
1783		Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg
green		Green harp flag of Ireland.svg
4prov		Four Provinces Flag.svg
football		Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg
rugby union		IRFU flag.svg
hockey		Flag of Ireland hockey team.svg
cricket		Cricket Ireland flag.svg
quidditch		Flag of Quidditch Ireland.svg

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
IRE (view)	IRE	Ireland
EIR (view)	EIR	Ireland

See What links here for a full list of redirects.

Example usage

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

Using a flag variant

• {{flag|Ireland|1783}} → Ireland
• {{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} →

Using a redirect alias

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

Related templates

Please see the following related country_data templates:

• Template:Country data Republic of IrelandRepublic of Ireland
• Template:Country data Southern IrelandSouthern Ireland
• Template:Country data Kingdom of IrelandKingdom of Ireland
• Template:Country data Lordship of IrelandLordship of Ireland
• Template:Country data Irish Free StateIrish Free State

Other information

This template is intended to be used for all-Ireland instances, usually resulting in a wikilink to Ireland (article about the island) instead of Republic of Ireland (article about the sovereign nation).

However, it is often convenient to use {{flagicon|Ireland}} and {{flag|Ireland}} instead of {{flagicon|Republic of Ireland}} and {{flag|Republic of Ireland}} respectively, so this template differs from the standard format in order to accommodate that usage. The alias parameter changes depending on whether or not a flag variant is used by the parent template call:

alias = {{#if:{{{variant|}}}|Ireland|Republic of Ireland}}

This results in

• {{flag|Ireland|1783}} → Ireland (use for Ireland as part of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
• {{flag|Ireland}} → Ireland (use for current state)

Use of country code aliases

The standard country code for the Republic of Ireland is IRL, so it can be used as an alias for Template:Country data Republic of Ireland. The non-standard country codes IRE and EIR are used as aliases for this template to provide similar convenience. For example:

• {{flagicon|IRL}} →
• {{flagicon|IRE|1783}} →
• {{flagicon|IRE|4prov}} →

Other flags

Country_data templates are also available for each of the four traditional provinces of Ireland:

Template:Country data Connacht	Connacht
Template:Country data Leinster	Leinster
Template:Country data Munster	Munster
Template:Country data Ulster	Ulster

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Country data Ireland in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Country data Ireland

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