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Between 1977 and 1978 Merchant Banking (Northern Ireland) doubled its deposit base to £1.19 million, and it was transferred to the ownership of another Gallagher company in April 1978, removing it from the regulatory oversight of the Central Bank. This allowed it to lend freely to the Gallagher Group.
The building was completed in 1972 and was the largest bronze-walled building in Europe. Costing a total of £4.6 million, it was the most expensive office development built in Ireland at the time. [6] The Bank of Ireland sold the property in 2006 at the height of the Celtic Tiger property boom [7] and moved its headquarters from the building ...
An earlier market house collapsed 2 March 1719 when the courtroom above was overcrowded with 200 prisoners when the court was in session. The replacement building was built by John Ensor, architect 1762. [231] Subsequently served as RC church. The Bank of Ireland branch. [232] [233] Roscrea: Tipperary: 1886 replacing earlier larger Market House ...
View of Merchants' Arch leading to Temple Bar with the former Central Bank of Ireland HQ in the background . Wellington Quay was laid out by the Wide Street Commissioners in 1815 and, following completion of the quay, it offered a site to the Merchant's guild for the construction of a new dedicated hall.
Bank of Scotland (Ireland) Danske Bank; First Active; ICS Building Society (previously Irish Civil Service Building Society) – investment shares acquired in 1984 by Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland as well as society savers but ran separately for a period until a legislative change after the 1987 General Election.
The Bank of Ireland Act 1781 (21 & 22 Geo. 3. c. 16 (I)) was passed by the Parliament of Ireland, establishing the Bank of Ireland. [5] On 25 June 1783, Bank of Ireland opened for business at St Mary's Abbey in a private house previously owned by one Charles Blakeney.
Parliament House (Irish: Tithe na Parlaiminte) in Dublin, Ireland, was home to the Parliament of Ireland, and since 1803 has housed the Bank of Ireland. It was the world's first purpose-built bicameral parliament house.
The Grehan family were wealthy Dublin wine merchants. Politically the family were well-connected “Castle Catholics” (i.e. Irish Catholics loyal to Dublin Castle – the seat of British Rule in Ireland). George Grehan's father Stephen Grehan (1776-1871) had been the first Catholic director of the Bank of Ireland. [4] [not specific enough to ...