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-3A new set of stamps to herald “four of Ireland’s most outstanding contemporary public buildings”

Clockwise from top:

The Lewis Glucksman Gallery at UCC, Cork. Designed by O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects, it was awarded the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) Downes medal in 2005.

The Cork Institute of Technology in Bishopstown (60c) Designed by de Blacam and Meagher Architects. It received the RIAI Best Educational Building Award in 2007.

Fingal County Hall in Swords, Co Dublin (90c) It received an award from RIAI in 2007 and was designed by Bucholz McEvoy Architects.

Croke Park in Dublin’(90c) Designed by Gilroy McMahon Architects, it was awarded a gold medal in the RIAI 2007 Awards.

FIGHT!

IrishStamps.ie

Thanks Feargal Purcell

Oh.

A six-week supply of Great Britain stamps  (an old batch from 1912-13) was received in Dublin on February 10, 1922.

And overprinting began the same day.

A week later, Ireland’s first official postage stamps were made available to the public

Shortly after the overprints appeared, Winston Churchill, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, was questioned in Parliament “whether the King’s head on British stamps . . . had been defaced by being printed over by the Irish Provisional Government . . . .” Churchill responded that “. . . it is the usual practice in a period of transition to overprint postage stamps, and the present arrangement has been agreed to by His Majesty’s Government . . . .”

 

1922 Set with Overprint (RareBooks.net)

Thanks Sibling of Daedalus


Press Release: Irish Olympians get graphic stamp celebration

Dublin 19/07/2012 – An Post today (Thursday) celebrated Ireland’s participation in the 2012 London Olympics with a duo of stamps.

An Post has issued the stamps, designed by Red Dog Design, to mark Ireland’s involvement in the games. The 55c stamp depicts a graphic interpretation of the medal ceremony. While the 82c stamp combines sharp imagery and contemporary typography to represent Ireland’s proximity to London and Team Ireland’s short journey to compete.

Go Team Ireland! Sure you’ll be back in an hour and a half, tops.

Olympic Games 2012 (An Post)