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2019

100th Anniversary of the Dáil Éireann

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General

2019
16.01.2019
1 000 000

Coin type

8,50 g
25,75 mm
2,20 mm

Description

Obverse
Depicts the words Cheád Dáil, meaning First Dáil, superimposed over a stylised image of the participants of that first Dáil meeting that occurred on 21 January 1919 in the Round Room of the Mansion House: the residence of the Lord Mayor of Dublin. Éire is Irish for "Ireland", the name of an island and a sovereign state. The First Dáil (Irish: An Chéad Dáil) was Dáil Éireann as it convened from 1919–1921. It was the first meeting of the unicameral parliament of the revolutionary Irish Republic. In 1919 candidates who had been elected in the Westminster elections of 1918 refused to recognise the Parliament of the United Kingdom and instead established an independent legislature in Dublin called "Dáil Éireann". The establishment of the First Dáil occurred on the same day as the outbreak of the Irish War of Independence. After elections in 1921 the First Dáil was succeeded by the Second Dáil of 1921–1922.
Reverse
A geographical image of Europe
Edge
Edge lettering, fine milled