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10,845 (2023) Website. www .bankofireland .com. Bank of Ireland Group plc ( Irish: Banc na hÉireann) is a commercial bank operation in Ireland and one of the traditional Big Four Irish banks. Historically the premier banking organisation in Ireland, the bank occupies a unique position in Irish banking history.
Banknotes have been issued for use specifically in Northern Ireland since 1929, and are denominated in pounds sterling. They are legal currencies, but technically not legal tender anywhere (including Northern Ireland itself). This is not uncommon as most bank notes are not recognised as tender. [1] However, the banknotes are still widely ...
Northern Bank robbery. On 20 December 2004, a total of £26.5 million in cash was stolen from the headquarters of Northern Bank on Donegall Square West in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Having taken family members of two bank officials hostage, an armed gang forced the workers to help them steal used and unused pound sterling banknotes.
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.
The current series of Bank of Ireland banknotes, in denominations of £5, £10, £20 and £50, were issued in 2013. All of the denominations feature an image of Hibernia, a line of shields representing the six counties of Northern Ireland and its logo on the front. The back designs feature an image of the Old Bushmills Distillery, the same ...
Scotiabank (Ireland) Wells Fargo Bank International; Defunct banks. ACC Bank; Anglo Irish Bank – in July 2011, merged with the Irish Nationwide Building Society, forming a new company named the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, itself dissolved in February 2013 under special liquidation following its recapitalisation and directive of ...
The £5 note is currently the smallest denomination of banknote issued by the Bank of Ireland. [3] The Queen's University Belfast Series was first issued in 2003. This issue features a representation of Hibernia on the front, alongside shields of arms of the six counties of Northern Ireland. The back of this note displays an image of Queen's ...
In Northern Ireland, three retail banks exercise their right to issue pound sterling notes: Bank of Ireland, Danske Bank (formerly Northern Bank) and Ulster Bank. As of 2020 [update] , Northern Bank and Ulster Bank are the only two banks that have issued special commemorative notes so far.