chronicling our travels. After using that site for 17 years, technology changed; it can no longer be updated. Welcome to our NEW SITE which follows our journeys from the Fall of 2016 to present. Our thanks go to Andy Paluch/WebGuyz!
In 1927, John Lavery agreed to assist the Currency Commission in
the design of the First Free State banknotes. He used his
wife as a model for Kathleen Ni Houlihan, the heroine in a W.B.
Yeats's play of 1902. The artist later quoted W.T. Cosgrave,
President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State as
saying: "Every Irishman, not to mention the foreigner who
visits Ireland, will carry one next to his heart."