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List of people on stamps of Ireland
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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 Railtas Sealadaċ na hÉireann 1922 and issued on 17 February 1922. The overprint was later changed to Saorstát Éireann 1922.
The Irish Free State issued the first commemorative stamps depicting a person on June 22, 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.
1929-1949
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
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
2000-2004
2005 on
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