Flags are not normally used as decoration but a dignified display of the flag indoors would not be inappropriate. It must not, however, be used as a table cloth or draped across a sofa, for example. It may be hung from a staff or displayed flat on a wall. If hanging on a wall in the horizontal position (as normally flown on a flag staff), you will easily know the correct way to display it but perhaps you are thinking of hanging it as a banner. In this case, you need to be sure the correct canton remains in the upper left corner when displayed. When the red cross of St Patrick is overlaid on the cross of St Andrew, the white portion of the St Andrew cross is wider above the red cross of St. Patrick than it is below it on both the upper left and lower left quadrants (cantons), and the upper of these quadrants must always be in the upper left position when the flag is displayed. If hanging the flag in the vertical position, you may have to “turn it over” to achieve this. This complicated explanation will become clear when you examine the flag and try it out!

John Robertson.