Easter Lily (badge)

Following the murder by the IRA of Richard More O'Ferrall in February 1935, the Fianna Fáil leadership instructed party members to stop selling the lily as it was "the symbol of an organisation of whose methods we disapprove".

This was sold for a number of years but was discontinued as the badge proved unpopular with the party grass roots, many of whom continued to wear the Easter Lily.

[1] At the 1967 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis a motion from the Tipperary Cummain calling for the Easter Lily to be supplied with a self-adhesive backing was passed.

Cumann na mBan continue the sale of the Easter Lily from their headquarters on 223 Parnell Street, Dublin.

[citation needed] The Easter Lily is the title of a song by Derek Warfield and the Young Wolfe Tones, set to the Foxhunters Reel, released in their Call of Erin, Vol.