1929 commemorative set issued for Catholic emancipation centenary showing Daniel O'Connell

This is a list of people on the postage stamps of the Irish Free State between 1922 and 1937 and on the postage stamps of Ireland since 1937, including the years when they appeared on a stamp.

Because no postage stamps had been designed, the first Irish stamps issued were the current British definitive postage stamps depicting a portrait of George V that were overprinted Rialtas Sealadaċ na hÉireann 1922 (Provisional Government of Ireland 1922) and issued on 17 February 1922. The overprint was later changed to Saorstát Éireann 1922 (Irish Free State 1922).

The Irish Free State issued the first commemorative stamps depicting a person on 22 June 1929 when Ofig an Phoist, the Irish Post Office, a section of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, issued a set of three stamps showing Daniel O'Connell.

The Department of Posts and Telegraphs and, after 1984, An Post designed stamps showing statesmen, religious, literary and cultural figures, athletes, etc. Until the mid-1990s it was usual policy not to issue stamps showing living persons, the only exceptions being Douglas Hyde (stamp 1943, d. 1949) and Louis le Brocquy (stamp 1977, still alive in 2007), but this policy has been put aside and there have recently been several issues showing living persons. For the Millennium, 30 Millennium stamps were issued showing living Irish sportsmen.

[edit] 1929-1949

[edit] 1950s

Commodore John Barry

[edit] 1960s

[edit] 1970s

[edit] 1980s

1989 Margaret Burke Sheridan Birth Anniversary

[edit] 1990s

1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema Brenda Fricker as Mrs Brown in My Left Foot

1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown in My Left Foot

1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema Robert Arkins as Jimmy Rabbitte in The Commitments

1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema Angeline Ball as Imelda Quirke in The Commitments

1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema Maria Doyle Kennedy as Natalie Murphy in The Commitments

1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema Bronagh Gallagher as Bernie McGloughlin in The Commitments

1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema Richard Harris as 'Bull' McCabe in The Field

1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema Sean Bean as Tadgh McCabe in The Field

1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema John Hurt as The 'Bird' O'Donnell in The Field

1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema Colman 'Tiger' King as A Man of Aran in Man Of Aran

1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema Maggie Dirrane as His Wife in Man Of Aran

1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema Michael Dirrane as Their Son in Man Of Aran

1997 75th Anniversary of Irish Free State Linda Martin Singer

1997 75th Anniversary of Irish Free State Sonia O'Sullivan Athlete

1997 75th Anniversary of Irish Free State Alan Gough Soccer Player

1997 75th Anniversary of Irish Free State Damien Hogan Garda

1997 75th Anniversary of Irish Free State Marie Egan Garda

1997 75th Anniversary of Irish Free State Brendan Walsh Garda

[edit] 2000-2004

[edit] 2005 onwards

[edit] See also

• Irish topics
• Postage stamps of Ireland

[edit] References

• Buchalter, M. Don (1972). Buchalter, M. Don. ed. Hibernian Specialised Catalogue of the Postage Stamps of Ireland 1922–1972. Hibernian Stamp Co Ltd, Dublin, Ireland. 
• Feldman, David (1968). Handbook of Irish Philately. Dublin, Ireland: David Feldman Ltd & the Dolman Press Ltd. 
• Gibbons, Edward Stanley (2004). Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue Ireland (2nd edition ed.). London & Ringwood: Stanley Gibbons. pp. 30–31. ISBN 0-86259-583-2. 
• Hamilton-Bowen, Roy (2001). Roy Hamilton-Bowen. ed. Hibernian Handbook and Catalogue of the Postage Stamps of Ireland 1922–2001. Rodgau Philatelic Service GmbH, Rodgau, Germany. ISBN 3-9807973-0-9. 
• Miller, Liam (1983). Kane, William (ed.). ed. Postage Stamps of Ireland 1922–1982. Dublin, Ireland: Philatelic Section, Department of Posts and Telegraphs. ISBN 0-946521-01-8.