Ireland Flag Emblem Brushed Chrome Zippo Lighter (can be personalised)

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Our Price:   £21.45 List Price:   £24.45 Saving Of:   £3.00 Earn 21 Loyalty Points Availability:      Personalise Reverse Lid:     + £3.00   if required please tell us the message to be engraved on reverse lid of the lighter upto 25 characters Personalise Reverse Body:     + £4.00   if required please tell us the message to be engraved on reverse of the lighter upto 70 characters Font for Engraving:   Select:AmazoneArialHarringtonMonotype CorsivaOld EnglishTimes Roman FONTS Brushed Chrome Flip Top Lid Windproof Zippo Gift Box Made in the USA Lifetime Guarantee

Our Brushed Chrome Flip Top Ireland Flag Zippo Lighter, has a brushed chrome finish with a full colour Ireland Flag on the front, and comes in a Zippo gift box, complete with a lifttime guarantee.

It features a flip top lid, is windproof, and oozes both style and class.

The lighter measures 56mm x 41mm x 10mm, just the right size for his or her pocket or purse.

PLEASE NOTE: For your safety the light is delivered without fuel.

PERSONALISATION:
We also offer the option of adding your personalised message to be engraved on the reverse of your lighter, if required please use the boxes to enter your lid and/or main body of the lighter engraving, and if having your item engraved please select the font you would like your lighter engraved in.

HISTORY OF THE FLIP TOP LIGHTER

In the 1920s, lighters were still somewhat of a luxury for smokers. But when the 1930s came along, a man named George G. Blaisdell noticed an awkward Austrian lighter that had room for improvement and acted on it.

He improved the ergonomics of the lighter's case, so it wasn't as awkward to hold. Then he designed a perforated hood for the wick, which kept the lighter's flame windproof! Additionally, he modified the fuel chamber to be more efficient, and added a hinged flip-top lid. And voila! Zippo entered the world of lighters.

Since then almost 500,000,000 Zippo lighters have been sold. There are millions of Zippo fans around the world who are collecting, buying, selling, swapping and talking about the Zippo lighter every day online and offline.

A Zippo Lighter no matter if its an antique or a modern Zippo makes a fantastic gift for loved ones and friends,  

Ireland Flag
The national flag of Ireland (Irish: bratach na hÉireann) is a vertical tricolour of green (at the hoist), white, and orange. It is also known as the Irish tricolour. The flag proportion is 1:2 (length twice the width). Although the flag's meaning is not covered by the Irish Constitution, the Irish government has stated that the green represents the Gaelic tradition of Ireland and the orange represents the followers of William of Orange in Ireland, with white representing peace, or a truce, between them.

Presented as a gift in 1848 to Thomas Francis Meagher from a small group of French women sympathetic to the Irish cause, it was not until the Easter Rising of 1916, when it was raised above the General Post Office in Dublin, that the tricolour came to be regarded as the national flag. Meagher was the son of Newfoundland-born mayor of Waterford, Thomas Meagher Jr, however there are two theories on his inspiration for the flag; the similarly-coloured Newfoundland Tricolour credited in legend as having been created in 1843, though this seems unlikely given the actual known history surrounding the Newfoundland Tricolour, and the French Tricolour.

The flag was adopted in 1919 by the Irish Republic during its war of independence, and subsequently by the Irish Free State (1922–1937), later being given constitutional status under the 1937 Constitution of Ireland. The tricolour is used by nationalists on both sides of the border as the national flag of the whole island of Ireland since 1916. Thus it is flown (often controversially) by many nationalists in Northern Ireland as well as by the Gaelic Athletic Association. It is similar to the flag of Côte d'Ivoire, but that flag is shorter and the colours are reversed.