The flag: Ireland emoji waves the green–white–orange tricolour like it’s yelling “Éire go brách!” On Apple/iOS it’s a glossy, gently rippling flag on a metallic pole, emerald green at the hoist, bright white in the middle, and a bold orange on the fly—crisp stripes, clean shading, unmistakable pub-sign vibes. PSA for the comments section: it’s orange, not gold, and yes, everyone mixes it up with Côte d’Ivoire—remember: Ireland puts green first.
Online, this emoji rides shotgun with shamrocks, pints, and “sláinte” toasts every St. Patrick’s Day, but it also shows up for Six Nations rugby, GAA hype, Eurovision watch parties, and diaspora pride posts. It’s the quick signal for “Irish content incoming,” from fiddle reels to soda bread to that cousin who knows three words of Gaeilge and uses all of them. People spam it when they pull an “Irish exit” (leaving the group chat silently), or as ironic seasoning on spicy UK–Ireland banter. Historically, the tricolour nods to green and orange traditions with white for peace—heavy meaning, light emoji. Bonus visual tell: if the stripes read green–white–orange left to right, you’ve nailed Ireland; flip it and you’ve wandered into 🇨🇮 territory.
The country of Ireland is represented by this emoji.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 805 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
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| Previous Names: | Regional Indicator Symbol Letters IE Ireland |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🇮🇪 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🇮🇪 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🇮 🇪 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🇮 🇪 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f1ee, 1f1ea |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1EE, U+1F1EA |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127470, 127466 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAE, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xAA |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 AE, F0 9F 87 AA |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 256, 360 237 207 252 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDEE, 0xD83C 0xDDEA |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddee, d83cddea |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56814, 55356 56810 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1EE 0x0001F1EA |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1EE, 01F1EA |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127470, 127466 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1EE\U0001F1EA" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xae\xf0\x9f\x87\xaa" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDEE\uD83C\uDDEA" |
