In Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, the flag used to fly over city hall everyday of the year.

在北爱尔兰的首都贝尔法斯特，这面旗帜常年在市政厅外飘扬。

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Flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, adopted in 1801.

英国和爱尔兰英国的旗子， 1801 年采取。

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Today's word-meter flag was born in January 1, 1801, the British component of the United Kingdom and Ireland.

今天的米字旗诞生于1801年1月1日，当时爱尔兰与不列颠组成了联合王国。

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IR Bagehot (May 20th) misses the greatest indignity of all in the matter of flags and Northern Ireland: the addition to the Union flag of the red diagonal cross of St Patrick as a symbol of the incorporation of the whole of Ireland into the United Kingdom in 1801.

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Sinn Fein is opposed to flying the Union Flag, and the party is currently seeking a judicial review of a ruling by Northern Ireland Secretary of State Peter Mandelson that it must be flown on certain days.

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The vote on the flag followed a summer of heightened tensions between Northern Ireland's Catholic and Protestant communities.

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