Banknotes of Ireland

A 5 Pound note issued by the private banking firm of Gibbons & Williams in Dublin, Ireland (1833).

Ireland has a history of trading its own banknotes for several centuries, both when the whole of Ireland was one legal entity, and following partition of the island into the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Notes have been issued by individual banks and by state agencies of the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. Currently, various commercial banks in Northern Ireland locally issue notes (or Bank of England notes) of the Pound sterling, while the Central Bank of Ireland, in the Republic of Ireland, issues local euro banknotes.