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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."