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A new €15 limited edition silver proof collector coin honouring John Philip Holland, the Irish born inventor of the modern submarine, was launched on Monday in Oranmore by the Central Bank of Ireland.

IT IS a fact, but an often overlooked one, that an Irishman invented the submarine. John Philip Holland, from Co Clare, was a noviciate Christian Brother who, while in Dundalk, came up with the idea of the submergible craft.