The Society's Armorial

Arms: Azure, within a bordure treffy Or two scrolls in saltire Argent banded at the centre Vert surmounted of a Chief of the second thereon a sprig of oak leaved and fructed Proper.

Motto: Cuimhnigi ar ár Sinnsir.

Grant: 15th March 2001, Chief Herald of Ireland, Vol. Z fol. 6.

Heraldic Artist: Philip Mackey, County Donegal.

Heraldic Banner: Azure, within a bordure treffy Or two scrolls in saltire Argent banded at the centre Vert surmounted of a Chief of the second thereon a sprig of oak leaved and fructed Proper.

Heraldic Badge:  On a Hurt fimbriated Or a Hungerford Knot the ends Acorned Or

Flag:  Commonly called a ‘Livery Flag’. The main colours of the Arms with the Heraldic Badge in the centre.

Made by O’Regan’s of Dublin circa 2003.

Flag:  Adopted in 2013 – designed by Stan Zamyatin-Moore, MA

The international symbol for Vexillology with the Harp of Ireland on a Blue Field.

Arms:  To be designed by the GSI Honorary Herald

Arms: Argent, an oak tree eradicated Proper.

Crest: An arm vambraced embowed, the hand bare grasping a sword entwined with a serpent all Proper, pommel and hilt Or.

Mantling: Vert and Argent.

Supporters: Two lions rampant Gules, each gorged with an antique crown and charged on the shoulder with a harp of Ireland Or.

Motto: Ó Dhia Gach Aon Cabhair (in old Gaelic script)

Granted: Ulster King of Arms. Inherited: 1981.

Photo: ‘The Poolbeg Book of Irish Heraldry’ by Micheál Ó Comáin (Dublin, 1991) page 62.

Arms: Argent a stag trippant Gules armed Or and upon a Chief of the second his badge consisting of two sprigs of oak fructed Proper intertwined within a Hungerford Knot the ends accorded Or.

Crest: Issuant from a rock Or a tower masoned and embattled displaying his badge banner Gules from a staff Or.

Mantling: Dexter Gules doubled Argent and in the sinister the tinctures reversed.

Motto: Roots Nourish the Tree.

Assumed:  25th October 2005.

Herald: George Lucki (IAAH)

Heraldic Artist: Andrew Tully (IAAH)

Arms: Per fess dancetty, in chief Azure a Stag's head caboshed Or, the base parted per pale Or and Ermine.

Crest: An arm embowed vested Azure cuffed Or grasping a scroll Proper tied Gules and a shamrock slipped Vert.

Motto: De Stainléigh Abú.

Assumed:  8th December 2009.

Herald: Melvyn Jeremiah (IAAH)

Heraldic Artist: Andrew Tully (IAAH

Flag: Designed in 2013 by Andrew Gerard Ball (1964-2021) for Bratacha 2013 as the ‘Mountains to the Sea Flag’ referring to the Motto in the Arms of Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council which were granted by the Chief Herald of Ireland in 1994.

Graphics:  Frank Lee-Cooper, Dún Laoghaire

On a field Or representing the association of Dún Laoghaire with the fifth-century High King of Ireland, Laoghaire Mac Niall, and formerly as Kingstown (1821-1921) associated with the early nineteenth-century King of Great Britain & Ireland, George IV; the green arc representing the mountains and the blue the sea; with the shamrock from the emblem of the Rathdown rural district.

The flag was presented to Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council and flew over the County Hall each weekend from 2013 to 2019.

Arms: Argent, seme of Golden Temple Menorah with candles aflame three red roses in bend barbed and seeded all Proper.

Crest: From a Torse Argent and Sanguine in the centre of an interlaced Star of David Argent fimbriated Azure a red rose barbed and seeded Proper.

Mantling: Sanguine Double Argent. 

Motto: Ní bheidh arís go deo na ndeor (Never, ever, ever again).

Assumed:  14th May 2014.

Herald: Geoff Kingman-Sugars (IAAH)

Heraldic Artist: Lee Lumbley (IAAH)

Arms: Azure in the dexter chief a cross-crosslet Or.

Crest: On a cap of dignity Azure turned up Or ermined of the first two arms vambraced embowed in pale the hands proper holding aloft a cross-crosslet gold.

Mantling: Azure doubled Or.

Motto: In Hoc Signo Vinces.

Heraldic Badge: In saltire a sword hilted Or the blade proper point upward behind an olive branch of the last.

Supporters: Upon a grassy mound planted with gorse all Proper on the dexter a bull Azure ringed, horned unguled and tufted Or charged on the shoulder with a cross crosslet of the last and on the sinister a lion also gold and likewise charged of the second. 

Arms Granted: Chief Herald of Ireland: Fergus Gillespie, 19 March 2009, Volume Z, Folio 87.

Supporters Granted: Chief Herald of Ireland: Colette O'Flaherty, 23 November 2015; Volume Aa, Folio 72.

Heraldic Artist: Philip Mackey, County Donegal

Arms: Azure a wolf and a boar combatant Argent langued Gules supporting between them a military pike pointing upward Proper.

Crest: A European Herring Gull rising, wings elevated and beak open Proper.

Motto: ‘Fréamhacha Agus Craobhacha Aontaithe’.

Grant:  The Chief Herald of Ireland, 16 December 2022 - Vol. Ab, Folio 28.

Herald: Dónal Burke

Heraldic Artist: Philip Mackey, County Donegal

Quarterly: 1 Sable, an «o» Or; 2 and 3 Or, two Wolves passant, in pale Sable; 4 Sable, an «XI» Or.

Motto: «Bhí an Briathar ann i dtús».