The fanciful name given by the ancient Irish to their national banner.
“At once, like a sun-burst, her banner unfurled.”
Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies, No. 6.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.