Coins Of Ireland
Irish coins have been issued by a variety of local and national authorities, the ancient provincial Kings and High Kings of Ireland, the Kingdom of Ireland (1541-1801), the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland(1801-1922), the Irish Free State(1922-1937), and by the present Republic of Ireland. Some modern British coins have Northern Ireland symbols (such as flax and the harp) but these are circulated throughout the UK.
Read more about Coins Of Ireland: Hiberno-Norse Coins, Baronial Coins of Ulster, Regal Hammered Coinage, Early Milled Regal Coinage, Civil War Coinage of 1689–91, Later Crown Coinage, Coins of The Irish Free State, Then Ireland/Éire, Coins of Northern Ireland
Famous quotes containing the words coins and/or ireland:
“No Time, spoke the clocks, no God, rang the bells,
I drew the white sheet over the islands
And the coins on my eyelids sang like shells.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“Life springs from death and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.... They think that they have pacified Ireland. They think that they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half. They think that they have foreseen everything, think they have provided against everything; but the fools, the fools, the fools, they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.”
—Patrick Henry Pearse (1879–1916)