Allied Irish Banks One Pound Jan 1982

Darren wrote in message
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I have an example of this note and have been doing a little research
and have come up with some interesting facts. More about what is on
the note than the note itself. Anyway, one thing that has confused me,
and someone may be able to help...

The note features the crests of the six counties of Ulster; Tyrone, ,
Antrim, Down, Londonderry, Armagh and Fermanagh. But the crest said to
represent Armagh looks like the old harp symbol representing the
Kingdom of Ireland.
(http://homepage.eircom.net/~donnaweb...nal/index.html)

Anyone know why Armagh should be represented this way, is it a
mistake?

I used to collect Northern Irish notes, and thought the representation of
arms etc on the notes was a bit of a peculiarity, given the political and
militant stuff going on in Northern Ireland, I thought that perhaps putting
Orange Hands and Harps was a bit of an agitation on the parts of different
parties in the too long going conflict there.



Also, if you know the note, who is the person featured?
http://www.thebanknotestore.com/brit...t/allied1f.jpg

The whole series from £1 - £100 featured representative and unnamed people
representative of Northern Irish citizenry. The colleen on the Fiver of
this series is particularly becoming, too bad she remains anonymous.

Accounts vary but between five and thirteen, out of 1,300
men onboard, survived. The bay where the Girona finally sank is now
known as Port na Spaniagh - "the bay of Spaniards".

One of the popular legends is that this is the origin of the term "Black
Irish" as allegedly the Spaniards melted into the local population and never
returned to Spain, who knows?

Dave Parrish

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 07:32:27 -0400, "Scottishmoney"
wrote:


Accounts vary but between five and thirteen, out of 1,300
men onboard, survived. The bay where the Girona finally sank is now
known as Port na Spaniagh - "the bay of Spaniards".

One of the popular legends is that this is the origin of the term "Black
Irish" as allegedly the Spaniards melted into the local population and never
returned to Spain, who knows?

Way too much information at http://www.darkfiber.com/blackirish/