The Irish Stock Exchange was first recognised by legislation in 1799 when the
Irish Parliament passed the '''''' (
39 Geo. 3. c. 60 (I)). The exchange originally operated from the
Royal Exchange and was built so that businessmen could sell goods and commodities and trade
bills of exchange. In different periods of its history, the ISE included a number of regional exchanges, including the
Cork and
Dublin exchanges. In 1973, the Irish exchange merged with British and other Irish stock exchanges becoming part of the International Stock Exchange of Great Britain and Ireland (now called the
London Stock Exchange). In 1837, Samuel Lewis records the stock exchange offices as having moved from the Royal Exchange to the Commercial Buildings on Dame Street, close to the present day offices of the stock exchange at
Anglesea Street in Temple Bar, stating that: Under the '''''' (No. 9) it became independent again and in April 2014 it demutualised changing its corporate structure and becoming a plc which is owned by a number of stockbroking firms. At the time of its demutualisation, the country's main stockbrokers received shares in the €56m-valued exchange and dividing up €26m in excess cash.
Davy Stockbrokers took the largest stake, at 37.5 per cent, followed by
Goodbody Stockbrokers with 26.2 per cent;
Investec with 18 per cent; the then
Royal Bank of Scotland Group 6.3 per cent;
Cantor Fitzgerald 6 per cent; and Campbell O’Connor with 6 per cent. In March 2018,
Euronext completed the purchase of the ISE, and renamed the ISE as
Euronext Dublin. ==Markets==