Irish postage stamps
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Pre-independence [edit]
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A Penny Red. Numeral handstamp 70 identifies the Boyle post office, used on the 1d red stamp in 1850.
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1907 Celtic Cross Sinn Féin propaganda label.
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Three bi-colour Hely Ltd. essays.
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Irish Free State three-line overprint Saorstát Éireann 1922 on 2/6 King George V stamp.
Post-independence [edit]
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Map of Ireland: First Irish postage stamp, valued at 2d.
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1922–23 First definitive series (low values).
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One shilling airmail stamp: Vox Hiberniæ flies over Glendalough.
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First commemorative set issued for Catholic emancipation centenary in 1929, showing Daniel O'Connell.
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Commemorative stamp from An Tóstal, 1953.
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Commemorative stamp from An Tóstal, 1953.
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Commemorative stamp for writer Tomás Ó Criomhthain, 1957.
Other material [edit]
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Reused 1962 envelope with 10d Second Issue postage due affixed to mail sent to local office of 20th Century Fox with certifying cachet of Censor's Office in 1965.
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1947 stamp booklet contained 2/- worth of stamps showing the serial number and year of issue 30-47 with advertising on half of front.
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Postal stationery envelope with a 6d post-paid impression paying the domestic printed matter rate in 1970 from Dublin to Youghal, County Cork.
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From around 1940, this type of 'e' watermark paper was used in Irish stamps.
See also [edit]
Postage stamps of Ireland at Wikipedia.
