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A swish new €2 coin comes into circulation today to commemorate 1916

It will be the first time Ireland has introduced a personalised €2 coin.

Central Bank The new Irish €2 1916 commemorative coin Jason Clarke Photography Jason Clarke Photography

THE 1916 CELEBRATIONS continue apace with the news that Ireland is issuing a new €2 coin today to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising.
4.5 million of the new coins will be introduced into general circulation by the Central Bank from this morning, with a number of collectable versions available for purchase also.

It will be the first time that Ireland will have issued its own commemorative €2 coin into circulation.

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The design, by Emmet Mullins, was chosen following a competition that saw 52 Irish and international designers submit proposals based on the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, as read by Pádraig Pearse outside the GPO on O’Connell Street in Dublin on 24 April 1916.

The coin features a representation of the statue of Hibernia (the historic personification of Ireland) on top of the GPO, the centenary dates and the name Hibernia in hand-rendered lettering influenced by the Book of Kells.

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“We are working with the banks, An Post, and the cash in transit companies to get the coin into circulation as soon as possible,” said Paul Molumby, director of currency management at the Central Bank.

You can expect to see the coins in the coming weeks as they circulate naturally around the country.

The collectable versions of the coin will include:

  • A €2 uncirculated coin card
  • A €2 uncirculated coin bookmark
  • A 2016 annual mint set containing the nine 2016-dated coins and a commemorative booklet
  • A 2016 €2 proof quality cased coin
  • A 2016 proof quality nine-coin set

Later in the year, gold and silver proof €2 coins will also be released for sale, albeit with a different design (by Michael Guilfoyle) incorporating words and phrases from the proclamation. You can learn more about that set of coins along with the above special editions released today here.

Read: Publicans say ‘archaic’ Good Friday alcohol ban should be lifted ahead of 1916 centenary

Read: Gerry Adams will speak to the nation on the eve of the Rising centenary

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    Mute Joey the lips Fagan
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    Jan 20th 2016, 7:12 AM

    Well thank FOOK mini Mayweather (mcgregor) isn’t on the god dam thing

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    Mute Patrick Hurley
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    Jan 20th 2016, 11:03 AM

    Ring Jimmy Rabbite and get the band back together. We need soul this year.

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    Mute Al Ca
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    Jan 20th 2016, 9:18 AM

    I think they look great!

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    Mute Dermot Lane
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    Jan 20th 2016, 10:14 AM

    so do I

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    Mute Oliver Moran
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    Jan 20th 2016, 8:57 AM

    “Hibernia”? Could it not have said, “Irish Republic”?

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    Jan 20th 2016, 9:29 AM

    ….tell me about it
    (see thread below with the usual keyboard warriors)

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    Jan 20th 2016, 9:51 AM

    The “keyboard warriors” pointed out that your claim that the word ‘Hibernia’ is somehow “Anglo-Irish” is incorrect. I would certainly agree that on the back of the coin we should use one of the names from article 4 of the constitution and not Hibernia.

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    Mute Crocodylus Pontifex
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    Jan 20th 2016, 9:52 AM

    And yes I know that doesn’t include Irish Republic

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    Mute BlueSkyThinking
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    Jan 20th 2016, 9:59 AM

    The word Hibernia was popularised by the Anglo Irish, what part of that do you not understand? Anyway I’m done feeding the trolls. Slán.

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    Mute Derek Walsh
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    Jan 20th 2016, 10:04 AM

    Oliver, why would it have the name of a state that existed only from 1919 to 1922?

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    Mute Oliver Moran
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    Jan 20th 2016, 10:16 AM

    @Derek, since what coin commemorates is the proclamation of the Irish Republic in 1916 and the centenary year of that proclamation in 2016.

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    Mute Derek Walsh
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    Jan 20th 2016, 11:07 AM

    Oliver, that’s true. However, given that the Irish Republic did not encompass the same territory as the Republic of Ireland, only lasted three years and the term “Irish Republic” continues to be used by various self-styled IRAs who do not recognise the state, it’s probably best not to put it on our coins.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 11:12 AM

    Hibernia was popularised by the Ancient Romans!!!!!

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    Mute Derek Walsh
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    Jan 20th 2016, 11:14 AM

    The term “Irish Republic” is also intermittently used by British media, a holdover from the British government’s practice before they fully recognised the legitimacy of the state of Ireland.

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    Mute Oliver Moran
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    Jan 20th 2016, 12:04 PM

    > …the term “Irish Republic” continues to be used by various self-styled IRAs who do not recognise the state, it’s probably best not to put it on our coins.

    And that shying away from the word “republic” is something I find deeply saddening. We should be proud of our history of republicanism, from the United Irishmen to 1916, and use this commemoration year to ask how the values of republicanism can inform us today.

    We shouldn’t allow ourselves to be cowed by those who use the word “republicanism” in a very anti-republican way to close down discussion or exclude others. Or by those who are happy to mute discussion of (second?) republicanism in 2016 so that they can get on with business-as-usual.

    I’m disappointed because I think the clarion call of the words “Irish Republic” are as important and vital today as they were when they were raised over the GPO 100 years ago this year.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 1:06 PM

    Hibernia is Latin for the land of perennial winter. The Romans sent scouts to Ireland and found it to be populated by a drunken and boisterous populace. This might imply it was unworthy of conquest lest they get stuck in the bog. But I never said that and I’m not a Roman.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 5:20 PM

    The name Ireland comes from the PROTO CELTIC word Iwerju, so in other words Ireland means Fatland in German. The fat referring to productivity of the land.

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Jan 20th 2016, 5:24 PM

    Ashley, the Romans only wanted England due to how well grain grew there. The Romans didn’t go here for the same reason they didn’t take over Scotland which was bigger back then than today because we are a hairy scary bunch of mad eejits lol.

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Jan 20th 2016, 5:46 PM

    Yes Ireland comes from the word Eire and the land is a Germanic word and yes Eire comes from Eueriio and Eriu but it is the proto celtic word Iwerju that means fatness as in fertile that gives the IRE to Ireland.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 6:48 AM

    This article sounds more like a sales pitch for the collectible stuff.

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    Mute The Throwaway
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    Jan 20th 2016, 6:54 AM

    Have you checked the prices? A €2 coin in proof is…*drum roll*…€15!!!

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    Jan 20th 2016, 9:05 AM

    Looks like they hope to sell loads in America.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 9:17 AM

    @the throwaway, they tend to hold their value,though.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 6:32 AM

    Hibernia? You couldn’t get a more Anglo-Irish name for Ireland ffs.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 6:39 AM

    Or Classical Latin…maybe? As in the Greek name for Ireland dating from c.320 BC. I get it though, it’s more fun to just bash the Anglo/British monster. Let me get my fire and pitch fork.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 6:44 AM

    A Classic case of “Ready, Fire, Aim”.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 6:45 AM

    Classical Latin and Greek are 2 different languages. I get that the Romans called Ireland Hibernia as well as Scottia, but Hibernia only entered common use in the 18th century, basically because it made the Irish sound civilised. What’s wrong with the Irish for Ireland?

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    Jan 20th 2016, 6:46 AM

    Latin for place of eternal winter I believe

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    Mute Jason Culligan
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    Jan 20th 2016, 6:52 AM

    The thing about the name Hibernia is that the only known ancient maps of Ireland call it Hibernia. The Scotii were an ancient Irish tribe that is believed to have lived in Northern Ireland, not a name for Ireland in itself.

    The Scotii and Ebdani are pretty much the only tribes from the period that we know anything about as the Romans either didn’t document their dealings with Ireland well or they were lost during the collapse of the Roman Empire.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 6:52 AM

    Hibernia is the Classical Latin name for the island of Ireland. The name Hibernia was taken from Greek geographical accounts. During his exploration of northwest Europe (c. 320 BC), Pytheas of Massilia called the island Iérnē (written Ἰέρνη). In his book Geographia (c. 150 AD), Claudius Ptolemaeus (“Ptolemy”) called the island Iouerníā (written Ἰουερνία, where “ου”-ou stands for w). The Roman historian Tacitus, in his book Agricola (c. 98 AD), uses the name Hibernia. The Romans also sometimes used Scotia, “land of the Scoti”, as a geographical term for Ireland in general, as well as just the part inhabited by those people.

    Ιουέρνια Iouerníā was a Greek rendering of the Q-Celtic name *Īweriū from which eventually arose the Irish names Ériu and Éire. The original meaning of the name is thought to be “abundant land”.

    Really you’re giving out about the British anglicising Ancient Greek, who in turn utilised a Classical Latin take on a q-Celtic name. Goddamn Greeks & their worldly civilisation. (Let’s also not forget that ‘Celtic’ is a romantic politicised concept of the 18th century, we’ve enough panties in a twist already, so we don’t need to go there just yet.)

    If you wanted to read more: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernia

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    Mute Darren Mccarthy
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    Jan 20th 2016, 6:55 AM

    Very few Irish will know that Hibernia means Ireland, never mind the rest of the European people. The statue looks nothing like anything the vast majority of people would associate with Ireland and the GPO is unrecognisable. Wasted opportunity in my opinion. This coin will circulate unnoticed.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 6:57 AM

    Hibernia actually comes from the Fingolian (know commonly known as Finglussss) meaning “Hi Bernie Ya gud thing”, see yiz are all wrong.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 6:57 AM

    Yep, Latin for wintery place. The Romans called us Ivernia (and Scotia) and the Italian (which evolved from Latin) for winter is iverno.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 7:07 AM

    Never met an Irish person who did not know that Hibernia is Ireland. Do you live in Ireland?

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    Jan 20th 2016, 7:23 AM

    Blue sky is empty sky. Stop digging. Stop trolling. It is a very good classical image. And BTW the coin also has Éire on it.

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    Mute Ed Magnier
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    Jan 20th 2016, 7:24 AM

    Wasted opportunity for what? To hawk a romanticised version of Ireland to the world? Haven’t we done enough of that already. Perhaps it will make people recognise that Eire pre-dates the rising and English imperial rule and we need to start taking pride in it and start to educate ourselves so we can build on what we have.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 7:30 AM

    Blue sky. Won’t Éire be written on the opposite side?

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    Jan 20th 2016, 7:34 AM

    Are you for real? So you ask every Irish person you meet if they know Hibernia is Ireland? How does that come up in conversation? Yes i was born and lived in Ireland all my life and unlike you i live in the real world and i can tell you that hundreds of thousands of people in this country will not know that Hibernia means Ireland.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 7:34 AM

    It’s Latin actually

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    Mute Darren Mccarthy
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    Jan 20th 2016, 7:37 AM

    The coin was cast for what happened in 1916 not for hundreds of year before that.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 8:08 AM

    We are probably the only country in Europe where this ridiculous debate would even start. Latin names for places are used commonly all over Europe. Think Francia and Germania, sure is that car company Dacia not the Latin for Romania?

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    Jan 20th 2016, 8:12 AM

    @ Ed – what’s wrong with a leprechaun anyway, and a shamrock, harp and a pint of the black stuff. Oh yeah, and some Riverdance imagery, maybe a painting by Michael Flatley. Might need a bigger coin though to fit it all….. Something inflatable…. Then there’s Flann O’ Brien….

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    Jan 20th 2016, 8:13 AM

    I think we should steal Scotia back from the perfidious North Britainers.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 8:26 AM

    An appropriate Image on the coin would be Herr Kenny getting his head rubbed by his Frau Merkel.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 8:31 AM

    @blueskythinking “Today it has D4 pretensions”. No it does not you clown!

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    Mute Patrick Hurley
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    Jan 20th 2016, 8:32 AM

    By the way, Queen Scotia, after whom the Scoti are named is reputedly buried in Foleys Glen just outside Tralee. She was reputedly the daughter of an Egyptian Pharaoh. One of her sons was called Íre after whom Ireland is called. There is a village on the Cork Kerry border called Ballymakeera or Baile Mhic Íre after him. Anyone can go to see Scotias grave.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 8:37 AM

    Or kissing her butt even.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 8:50 AM

    There’s a streak of obscurantism in Irish nationalism which sees anything whatsoever foreign as evil. Never mind that the island of saints and scholars was named so because of the classical learning that was preserved here during the Middle Ages. Classical learning is actually fundamental to our pre-Norman national identity, and ironically your attitude is testament to the success of British imperialism, because you’ve been convinced that the only way that sort of heritage could exist here is via the civilizing hand of Britain. Irish monks were copying Plato and Aristotle at a time when Britain was barely a blip on their radar.

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    Mute Derek Walsh
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    Jan 20th 2016, 10:06 AM

    “Very few Irish will know that Hibernia means Ireland”

    I don’t think that’s true but if it is, here’s an opportunity for them to learn.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 10:07 AM

    @ Patrick Hurley: l saw it when l was a kid – big flat rock as l recall. I don’t suppose it was ever excavated?

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    Jan 20th 2016, 10:16 AM

    @Patrick, I thought Ireland was named after the goddess Eiru?

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    Jan 20th 2016, 10:57 AM

    The statue is called Hibernia, she is on top of the GPO hence the reference.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 10:58 AM

    @Niall No archaeological dig anyway. It’s a shame it’s not exploited more for tourism purposes. Scotland and Nova Scotia are named after her.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 10:59 AM

    @Dermot. Open to correction on that.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 11:18 AM

    The Ancient Order of Hibernians is a fervent Irish Catholic organisation, with a quasi militant history.

    Nothing “Anglo-Irish” about those lads!

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    Jan 20th 2016, 5:36 PM

    James we are the nation saints and scholars because we as a nation went out into Europe in the dark ages and saved Christianity in Europe by building monasteries etc and saved Christianity by spreading Christianity after it was nearly gone.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 8:06 AM

    100 years and you’d think the government would issue a coin to each household.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 11:08 AM

    To go with the Millennium Candle we all got to look at New Years Eve 1999…

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    Jan 20th 2016, 7:07 AM

    The know it all’s are up early.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 8:00 AM

    Considering what the country have just be through over the past decade should this not have been a penny instead of a 2 Euro?

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    Jan 20th 2016, 8:07 AM

    Hiberniores Hibernis ipsis etc….

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    Jan 20th 2016, 12:00 PM

    “A few of the cartoons and caricatures for this week feature Hibernia as a personification of Ireland as a nation. She is a pretty young woman and far more appealing to behold than the Fenian monsters around her. These ‘pests’ make her visibly frightened and in need of a strong outside force to keep her safe from them. Britannia fills this need and is depicted alongside her as strong, unafraid and armored. Hibernia leans on Britannia or hangs on her arm, expressing her dependency on the other woman. Beyond the personification, Ireland is illustrated as requiring Britain’s strength in defending itself against the bestial Fenians. This version of Ireland is more attractive to be sure, but is weak, vulnerable and helpless. Hibernia is a preferable image to the British viewer as a sort of little sister to their own Britannia. Lovely but pitiable, she is not any more a positive model for the Irish than the Fenian Frankenstein.” http://victorianvisualculture.com/2010/10/13/hibernia-as-the-other-http://punch.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Ireland-Cartoons/G0000tcWkXyP4OHo/I0000j5zaTOzl8oAireland/

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    Mute Al Ca
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    Jan 20th 2016, 6:33 PM

    Thank you Darren…that’s quite a good bit of little known history. +1

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    Jan 20th 2016, 7:39 AM

    Not one single Woman on a coin but there’s a dog and a fish… good to know where you stand in the pecking order.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 7:49 AM

    I see the misogynists are up early this morn :) Red thumb away, it’s not going to change facts.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 7:54 AM

    Trill (female form of a Troll)

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    Jan 20th 2016, 8:01 AM

    I think someone needs to Google the meaning of the word misogynist.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 8:15 AM

    There’s a man there. You can use one of his ribs to make a woman. It’s just a space saving exercise. Don’t fret.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 8:18 AM

    @carol They should have put Eriu the ancient goddess of Ireland on the coin just to keep you happy. But then you would probably find something else to complain about.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 8:19 AM

    you are right, we need more animals on coins, and less women

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    Jan 20th 2016, 12:47 PM

    Carol, the picture on the coin is of the statue of the goddess Hibernia (a female) which is on top of the GPO

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    Jan 20th 2016, 5:39 PM

    Greece has the rider on the beast 2 euro coin, she is a woman… Wasn’t she the daughter of Zeus?

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    Jan 20th 2016, 8:40 AM

    What about that Turkey lad

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    Jan 20th 2016, 9:02 AM

    Dustin the Turkey? ..your avin a laugh.. Wea wea wea

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    Jan 20th 2016, 12:32 PM

    It is great to see the this new coin design is creating so much interest and comment, whether it is because of the inclusion of the word “Hibernia” or the appearance of the statue.
    It’s a shame if the new coin stirs up more division than cohesion.
    Over here in England, we also have Britannia on most of our coins, a reminder of the days when we were a Roman colony.
    I hope nobody takes offence at me including a link to a web page about a earlier Hibernia coin an 1805 Halfpenny:
    http://24carat.co.uk/frame.php?url=1805halfpenny.html

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    Jan 20th 2016, 11:16 AM

    I read the title as Swedish and got very confused for a moment… Looks nice though!

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    Jan 20th 2016, 7:13 AM

    ‘ Hibernia ‘…. Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum videtur

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    Jan 20th 2016, 7:38 AM

    Understood the 1st bit about it being 2 quid but after that you have lost me.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 7:57 AM

    Basically: if you say it in Latin it sounds better

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    Jan 20th 2016, 11:07 AM

    Yeah it says dictum too.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 8:31 PM

    I had a chuckle at it.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 3:18 PM

    Hibernia the younger sister to Britannia what a joke

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    Jan 20th 2016, 7:54 AM

    Or check out the new Irish crypto currency IrishCoin. Launching new mobile payment app and usage map for for Easter. Http://irishcoin.org

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    Jan 20th 2016, 9:05 PM

    I asked a group of transition year students today what Hibernia meant to them. They had never heard of it!

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    Jan 21st 2016, 6:53 PM

    A German coin that celebrates Irish “Independence”. You have to love the irony.

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    Jan 25th 2016, 12:18 PM

    Ironic that they use the derogatory Roman word for Ireland.
    Hibernia means the same thing as “Hibernate”.
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    The uneducated West-Brits who designed it would not know that.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 2:13 PM

    I didn’t know that tech Swish used Euros. I thought they used Swish Francs!

    I’ll get me coat!

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    Jan 20th 2016, 2:31 PM

    *texh = “they used”. Blimmin autocorrect.

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    Jan 20th 2016, 2:47 PM

    Jesus Conor you’re havin a nightmare

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    Jan 20th 2016, 5:32 PM

    The GPO also has the Statue of Hermes with his Caduceus…
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus#Symbol_of_commerce
    Funny thing for a Catholic Ireland at the time lol.

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    Feb 10th 2016, 5:20 PM

    Hibernia ? Jasus I thought that was the name of a meat factory lol,

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