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The pound was the currency of Ireland until 2002. Its ISO 4217 code was IEP, and the symbol was £. The Irish pound was replaced by the euro on 1 January 1999. Euro currency did not start circulating u
Farthing of 1744 with harp, crown and legend "Hibernia"
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Kingdom of Ireland
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The Kingdom of Ireland was a dependency of England from 1542 to 1707, and then of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800. It was ruled by the monarchs of England and then of Great Britain in personal union,
Irish pound
…was worth 12⁄13 of an English pound. (The Pound Scots had yet another value; it was absorbed into sterling in 1707 at a ratio of 12 to 1.) In 1801, the Kingdom of Ireland became part of the United Kingdom, but the Irish pound continued to circulate until January 1826. Between 1804 and 1813, silver tokens worth 10d were…
English soldiers return from a battle with cattle, severed Irish heads, and Irish captives, from The Image of Irelande, 1581
Charlotte Schreiber's The Croppy Boy (1879), relating to the United Irishmen's Wexford Rebellion. A man, possibly a rebel from his green cravat, kneels before a Catholic priest who is covertly in military uniform. The church hierarchy opposed the rebellion.