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The pound ( Irish: punt) was the currency of Ireland until 2002. Its ISO 4217 code was IEP, and the symbol was £ (or £Ir for distinction. [1]) The Irish pound was replaced by the euro on 1 January 1999. [2] Euro currency did not begin circulation until the beginning of 2002.
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The Irish pound (Irish: punt Éireannach) was the official...
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[citation needed] In 1928, six years after the Anglo-Irish Treaty restored Irish autonomy within the British Empire, the Irish Free State established a new Irish pound, initially pegged at par to sterling.
Following the partition of Ireland, the Irish Free State created an Irish pound in 1928; the new currency was pegged to sterling until 1979. The issue of banknotes for the Irish pound fell under the authority of the Currency Commission of the Republic of Ireland, which set about replacing the private banknotes with a single ...
Origins of the Irish Pound. Although a separate Irish currency, which fluctuated in value against sterling, had existed during the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, the Act of Union in 1800 provided for the eventual assimilation of the Irish pound with that of the UK.
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Pound is the name of various units of currency. It is used in some countries today and previously was used in many others. The English word "pound" derives from the Latin expression lībra pondō, in which lībra is a noun meaning 'pound' and pondō is an adverb meaning 'by weight'.
The history of the Irish pound spans from the introduction of the Saorstát pound in 1927, to the changeover to euro banknotes and coin in 2002. For most of this period, the Irish pound had a fixed link to sterling. It was only in the 1970s that this link was seriously questioned when it failed to deliver price stability.
