The winning designs for the 2016 €2 coins to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising.
The winning designs by Emmet Mullins (top) and Michael Guilfoyle (above) feature depictions of the statue of Hibernia, the “historic personification of Ireland”, on top of the GPO in Dublin and lettering from the proclamation rendered in Book of Kells styleee.
FIGHT!
(RollingNews.ie)
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Huh, i would have prefered something a bit more gaelic. Like a woodkern beating Diarmait Mac Morchada over the head with a copy of the RTE guide.
…titter..an aisling
I agreed AND I laughed.
Complete and utter poo.
Covering up the wording is a bad idea unless it’s faded and part of a textured background.
The Book of Kells is written in Irish half-uncial. There’s not what the proclamation there is written in.
Covering up the wording is intentional.
It is meant to symbolise the reality of Ireland’s unequal society in the manner that not all of the proclamation is intended for all the people, and that those in power will reserve all for themselves and only reveal parts of it to you and I and the rest of the ordinary people.
If anything, it speaks of truth.
in that case in should just say ‘SUCKER!!’
Not getting any “Book of Kells”-ness from that myself.
Thing BS mixed it up, its a section from the proclamation and the seperate word HIBERNIA is writen in faux-Book of Kells styl(ee)
Faux any old Gaelic font you mean, yeah?
There are many.
*waves hand in the air*
These are not the fonts you are looking for.
Needs more balaclava!
First bad.
Second brutal.
Guilfoyle
https://media.giphy.com/media/Nj8Ohc8Sk4Mww/giphy.gif
Hernia? No wonder, standing like that all day. Can’t see how it deserves its own medal though. Think I’ll hold out for the 1916 commemorative lego firing squad and portable sean o casey shadow of a gunman.
Are they planning to bring one out to commemorate their role in the banking collapse?
Classic – “Hibernia” a name for the country that originated in coloniser’s misinterpretation of what they would find if they could reach it, old winterland.
They (the Greeks) may have come up with the name but they didn’t colonise us.
Sorry, that was ambigious, and slightly in error – I thought it was originally Latin. Also I meant that they were colonisers generally, not our colonisers.
Talking out my Erse I guess.
we’re all colonisers generally
it was the Romans actually. But hey, what have they ever done for us?
Pretty sure it was the Greeks – Ptolemy and his team of geographers. The name ‘Iouernia’ first appeared on their maps. Later referred to as ‘Hibernia’ by the Romans.
http://media.irishcentral.com/images/MI+PTOLEMYS+MAP+OF+IRELAND++c+140+AD.jpg
Fecking Greeks: First they invent gayness, now Ireland.
Eh?
What you talkin’ ’bout Willis?
The second one looks like a Macedonian car wash token.
Should have gone with a wicker man.