Explore the Benefits of the Irish Passport

Before it was on coins. Before it was on passports. Before it became a logo. It was music. In the late Middle Ages, the harp filled Gaelic halls — beside kings, poets and storytellers. It was power, memory, and identity carved in wood. Then came conquest. In the 16th century, Henry VIII placed a crown above it on Irish coinage. But centuries later, the crown would disappear. The harp became something else, a symbol of resistance, nationalism, and cultural survival. Today it lives on: • in your I