Template:Country data Ireland

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Template documentation

This is the documentation for Template:Country data Ireland. It is automatically generated by Template:Country showdata

Template:Country data Ireland is an internal data container not intended to be transcluded directly. It is used indirectly by templates such as flag, flagicon, and others. For a more thorough discussion of the flag template system, including parameters not described here, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template.

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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 (Image:Flag of Ireland.svg, shown above right)
`alt attribute`	`Flag of Ireland`	(optional) alt attribute for flag image

Flag variants

For more details on this topic, see Flag of Ireland.

Label	Flag image (40px)	Image name
`1783`		`St Patrick's saltire3.svg`
`4prov`		`Four Provinces Flag.svg`
`pres`		`Flag President of Ireland.svg`
`football`		`St Patrick's saltire3.svg`
`rugby`		`Flag of Ireland rugby.svg`
`hockey`		`Flag of Ireland hockey team.svg`
`cricket`		`Flag of Ireland cricket team.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

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:

Other information

This template is intended to be used for all-Ireland instances, usually resulting in a wikilink to Ireland (the island) instead of Republic of Ireland (the nation). Specifically, several sport-specific flag variants are maintained here, and these are automatically used by the respective sport team templates:

{{fb|Ireland}} → Ireland (football, 1882-1922)
{{cr|Ireland}} → Ireland (cricket)
{{ru|Ireland}} → Ireland (rugby union)
{{rl|Ireland}} → Ireland (rugby league)
{{fh|Ireland}} → Ireland (field hockey)
{{ih|Ireland}} → Ireland (ice hockey)

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 code IRE is used as an alias for this template to provide similar convenience. For example:

{{flagicon|IRL}} →
{{flagicon|IRE|1783}} →
{{flagicon|IRE|rugby}} →
{{fb|IRL}} → Republic of Ireland (links to Republic of Ireland national football team)
{{fb|IRE}} → Ireland (links to Ireland national football team (1882 to 1950))
{{ru|IRE}} → Ireland (links to Ireland national rugby union team)

Incorrect usage

Do not use the IRL alias for all-Ireland sports team, and do not use the IRE alias without a flag variant specified. The following examples should not be used.

{{flagicon|IRE}} → (Works, but better to use the standard country code for IRL.)
{{cr|IRL}} → ~~Ireland~~ (Use {{cr|IRE}} instead)
{{ru|IRL}} → ~~Ireland~~ (Use {{ru|IRE}} instead)
{{fh|IRL}} → ~~Ireland~~ (Use {{fh|IRE}} instead)