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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NorlinAirlann, post: 4694944, member: 114054&quot;][GALLERY=media, 14896]Bank of Ireland by NorlinAirlann posted Aug 1, 2020 at 4:36 PM[/GALLERY]</p><p><br /></p><p>A well used note, but one with much history.&nbsp; The Irish Free State, Saorstát Éireann, had been proclaimed by the Anglo-Irish treaty with the United Kingdom as a dominion of the British Empire.&nbsp; What should have been an easy transition to nationhood was not.&nbsp; The reality was that the pro-treaty forces led by Michael Collins were opposed by the anti-treaty republicans led by Eamon de Valera and a short and violent civil war broke out in the south of Ireland.&nbsp; The pro-treaty forces prevailed, but Michael Collins was assassinated.</p><p><br /></p><p>This note was issued a couple of weeks prior to the start of the Irish civil war, surely a witness to that violent struggle that saw more people lose their lives than the war of independence.&nbsp; Bank of Ireland issued these notes in Dublin until 1927, then beginning in 1929 issued the &quot;Ploughman&quot; series as part of the Consolidated Banking Scheme until 1940.&nbsp; This design continued in use, but in the name of the Belfast branch until the design was modified beginning in 1933.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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