In 1848, as he stood at the second floor window of the Wolfe Tone Confederate club on the Mall in Waterford with the green, white and orange flag in his hand, 24-year-old Thomas Francis Meagher could hardly have envisaged how his creation would become such an iconic symbol in an independent Ireland decades later.
Directly across the road from the Bishop’s Palace Museum on the Mall in Waterford you’ll find Derrynane House– the home where Thomas Francis Meagher grew up and from where he was arrested in 1848.