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5 Pounds
| Issuer | Central Bank of Ireland |
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| Year | 1994-1999 |
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| In circulation to | 2002 |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of Catherine McAuley, founder of the Sisters of Mercy, positioned at right, with a view of the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin rendered as an architectural vignette at left. Bilingual inscriptions appear in Irish and English, with guilloche underprint elements framing the composition. |
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| Signature(s) | 15.03.1994 - 28.04.1994 / 15.03.1994 - Doyle & Cromien 21.12.1994 - 15.10.1999 - O'Connaill & Mullarkey |
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| Comments |
Robert Ballagh, better known as a fine artist and poster designer, was commissioned to redesign the entire Irish pound series in the early 1990s — an unusual choice that generated real public debate at the time. His approach broke sharply from the earlier Lady Lavery notes and the Russborough series that preceded this issue.
The Doyle/Cromien signature combination is notably short-lived, covering only a six-week window in early 1994, making those dated examples considerably harder to find than the O'Connaill/Mullarkey issues that ran through the remainder of the series until euro transition planning effectively ended new printings.