Talk:Irish pound

message: Correct me if I'm wrong but punt isn't Irish language for pound. Its simply a nickname that the Irish pound was given by British economists to differenciate from sterling after the two broke parity in 1979 when Ireland joined ERM.
:Considering that the 1-pound coin said punt, it appears that punt is, in fact, the Irish word for pound Nik42 05:34, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: 2005 posts

message: Is dóigh liom go bhfuil tú mícheart faoi sin, agus is punt an Ghaeilge ar pound.
I'm pretty certain you are wrong, certainly punt is what we use in Irish for "pound" - including, I believe, the pound sterling.
Now I will admit, that I'm not sure that Punt was ever an "official" title for the Irish Pound.
zoney ▓   ▒ talk 08:32, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The word "punt" did not come into existance in 1979, it can be traced to at least 1965 in legal terms , before this the "punt" was called the Saorstát pound during the Irish Free State (from 1927), in 1938 it became officially the Irish pound with the passing of the new constitution and this remains the strictly legal term.
Yes,Punt is the Erse word for 'Pound'.It is first recorded on the banknotes issued by the Currency Commission Irish Free State.Its plural changes depending on the number of Pounds.The Erse language is in the same family of languages as Scots-Gaelic & Manx.I have never referred to
the Irish pre-Euro currency as the Punt.I just call it the Irish Pound,
just for the sake of convenience,& besides,I am fiercely pro-English,
even though I am of Scots descent. (Aidan Work 01:23, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mícheart 

message: It is my intention that any material not purely on the Irish Pound but rather general coinage material will be placed in the article Coinage of the Republic of Ireland. This article will be one, among many. Djegan 15:39, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I intend to create an article Irish pound coin for the coin, and move banknote material to Banknotes of the Republic of Ireland,  and move this article in the direction of been an article on the Irish pound from a historic and economic aspect. Also material in Irish coinage or Irish banknotes that deals with the currency, as a currency, should be moved here. Any comments? Djegan 22:58, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Irish Coinage

message: This section is not neutrally titled. It is POV by definition. It is not encyclopedic no matter how much you hated the coin.
-- Sorry, completely wrong about the animal. It doesn't have palmate antlers.
:I have no problem with someone making a npov of an article but this does not mean that an article must be entirely possitive. Futhermore using the title "a bad design?" leaves the user to decide (subsitute "good" if you want) - if i hated the coin why would of i provided the high quality scan that i produced myself at the top of the article? I am going to make additional attempts at making the article more balanced but if your overiding concern is that the article is pervertedly pov then please cite specific examples rather than wholesale removal of material - I have tried to the detail in the article specific and balanced. In particular this section which was wholesale removed please explain the pov (in fact its quite factual, i was their and remember this):
::was quite similar to but thinner than the half-crown coin. During the early circulation of the coins payphones and vending machines were changed over as expected, however soon the old penny, in particular, became used as a substitute for the pound coin in these devices. This created losses for the operators as these old coins had little value, either face or marketwise, notwithstanding the fact that they were no longer legal tender. Soon the devices were changed so that pound coins were not accepted and this remained so until the coin was withdrawn with the advent of the euro
:Dont jump on the pov bandwagon just because you want to reflect Irish culture in a positive manner and eliminate all decent. Additionally irrespective of your interpretation of the animal on the coin the legal definition, as defined by law, is "a red deer" and if you disagree with this then i recommend that you write a few lines to that effect in the article as to why it does not look like a red deer. Djegan 17:52, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: POV and animal

message: Djegan you are absolutely right, and I apologize for being so rude. Ben-w 09:26, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Red Deer

message: I will be creating an article called 'Coins of Ireland',which will deal with all Irish coinage from the issues of the Hiberno-Norse Kingdom of Dublin right through to the Euro coinage.I will provide explainations why I divide the modern Irish coinage into their periods. (Aidan Work 01:27, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds interesting. You are aware that we already have articles on each 20th century Irish coin denomination? It would be nice to have extra information on them. -- Arwel (talk) 02:27, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

text: I have no problem with a "Coins of Ireland", remembering as Arwel states that their is already a Coinage of the Republic of Ireland with subsiduary articles on each coin. In this case Republic of Ireland including the Irish Free State, Éire (Ireland) and the Republic of Ireland itself. How about renaming your article "Historical coinage of Ireland" and dealing with pre Irish Free State issues. Djegan 19:14, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Coins of Ireland.

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Irish pound (reverse).png

message: Two quotations from the article, separated by a section break and one paragraph, read respectively:
Right up until complete withdrawal of the Irish pound on February 9, 2002, those UK coins which were the same sizes and compositions as the corresponding Irish coins were accepted virtually everywhere in Ireland.
Until this exchange rate was necessary, UK currency was accepted in the Republic on a one-for-one basis by many institutions.
The exchange rate in question was introduced in 1979. 23 years intervene between the dates that it's claimed that UK currency was accepted as 1:1 until.
Both claims are sufficiently vague that they don't really contradict one another. The first claim doesn't say the coins were accepted at 1:1, but by saying it applies to coins with the same sizes and compositions, it does rather imply that.
And the second claim only refers to "many institutions" -- not whether the institutions were governmental or commercial, or whether they were large or small, nor what percentage of them "many" is. It also doesn't refer to only specific coins of the same sizes and compositions.
Nevertheless, this issue could use some elucidation. By whom, and for how long was UK currency accepted  in Ireland, at 1:1 or otherwise? And which currency denominations were accepted?
--Armchairlinguist (talk) 00:48, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: By the end of the use of the pound, the only coins which were the same size in the two countries were the 1p and 2p. The 5p and 10p coins of the two countries were shrunk by different degrees in the early 1990s, and the UK 50p was made considerably smaller in 1997. The 20p and £1 coins were different sizes and compositions right from their introduction. -- Arwel Parry (talk) 20:11, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vague claims of equivalent acceptance for UK and Irish pounds conflict 

message: The first article after the introduction states "The first Irish coinage was introduced in 1897..."
It then goes on to discuss related events occurring in the 1180s, 1460, etc.  Is that first date intended to be 1097? or just 897? Any ideas?  Any references?  I'm confused. --Pigsmoke (talk) 16:25, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date Check 

message: The suggestion that prices "rarely had been" improperly inflated at the euro changeover is complete nonsense. Everyone and his dog knows the prices were rounded up; £1 became €1.50, £10 became €13, and even penny sweets went up to 2c. Stifle (talk) 13:47, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hidden inflation 

message: Local reports are suggesting that the Irish government has started to print the Punt again in preparation for leaving the Euro.
Looks like the entire Eurozone is going to collapse soon.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.146.93.191 (talk) 09:02, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latest Rumor 

message: Would this be better as a separate article? For a long time the Irish pound was 12/13 of the English and it would do better as a separate page where the various coins, notes, banks, mintings etc. could be covered separte to the 1922-2002 pound. Like Pound Scots. Sheila1988 (talk) 14:54, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: First pound / preindependence

message: There are a few "Lang module errors" in this article. I don't have the knowledge to fix them. Please help to fix them.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Llf (talk • contribs) 01:46, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lang module errors 

message: Can someone with more relevant experience write a paragraph about the Currency Board that was used to maintain IR£ /STG£ parity from 
1927 to 1979.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cobalt69 (talk • contribs) 00:55, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Currency Board  

message: Someone should put in the article a description of how happened that the currency was given the name Pound/Punt.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:5991:2D00:7CB6:7C96:E402:7F3B (talk) 14:54, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question of the Name 

message: Does anyone have any evidence to support the assertion that IR£ was used anywhere as an abbreviation for the IEP? (before the ISO 4217 made IEP a thing, of course.) On cheques, for example? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 21:02, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added a  tag in the article. If evidence of status (not random examples of it being used somewhere sometime), it will have to be deleted. Deadline end July? --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 23:03, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evidence for IR£ being used?