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This is a list of people on the Postage Stamp s of the Irish Free State , Éire and the Republic Of Ireland , including the years when they appeared on a stamp. Until the mid-1990s it was policy not to issue stamps showing living persons, but this policy has been put aside and there have been several issues showing living person. For the Millennium , 30 stamps were issued showing living Irish sportsmen.

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centenary showing Daniel O'Connell ]]


1929-1949


















1929 Daniel O'Connell 1943 Sir William Rowan Hamilton
1937 Saint Patrick 1944 Edmund Ignatius Rice
1939 George Washington 1948 Wolfe Tone
1943 Dr Douglas Hyde 1949 James Clarence Mangan



1950S


























1952 Thomas Moore 1957 Admiral William Brown
1953 Robert Emmet 1957 Father Luke Wadding
1954 Cardinal John Henry Newman 1958 Mother Mary Aikenhead
1956 Commodore John Barry 1958 Thomas J. Clarke
1957 John Redmond 1959 Arthur Guinness
1957 Thomas O'Crohan



1960S


























1965 W.B. Yeats 1966 Sir Roger Casement
1966 Eamonn Ceannt 1966 Padraig Pearse
1966 James Connolly 1967 Jonathan Swift
1966 Joseph Mary Plunkett 1968 Countess Markievicz
1966 Sean MacDiarmada 1969 Mohandas Gandhi
1966 Thomas MacDonagh



1970S






































1970 Kevin Barry 1977 Jack B. Yeats
1970 Terence MacSwiney 1977 Johannes Scottus Eriugenus
1970 Thomas MacCurtain 1977 Louis Le Brocquy
1971 J.M. Synge 1978 Catherine McAuley
1974 Edmund Burke 1978 William Orpen
1974 Oliver Goldsmith 1979 Padraig Pearse
1976 Alexander Graham Bell 1979 Pope John Paul II
1976 Benjamin Franklin 1979 Rowland Hill
1976 James Larkin



1980S

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1980 George Bernard Shaw 1984 St. Brendan
1980 Oscar Wilde 1985 Charles Stanford
1980 Sean O'Casey 1985 Turlough Carolan
1980 Saint Jean Baptiste De La Salle 1985 George Frideric Handel
1981 Charles Parsons 1985 Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti
1981 Harry Ferguson 1985 Johann Sebastian Bach
1981 James Hoban 1985 Thomas Ashe
1981 Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa 1985 George Berkeley
1981 John Holland 1986 Arthur Griffith
1981 Robert Boyle 1986 William Mulready
1982 St. Francis Of Assisi 1987 Canon Hayes
1982 Francis Makemie 1987 Mother Mary Martin
1982 Pádraig Ó Conaire 1987 Cathal Brugha
1982 John Field 1988 Sir Sydney Nolan
1982 James Joyce 1988 Robert O'Hara Burke
1982 Charles Kickham 1988 Barry Fitzgerald
1982 Eamon De Valera 1988 William T Cosgrave
1983 Pádraig Ó Siochfrhradha 1988 John F. Kennedy
1983 Seán Mac Diarmada 1989 Sean T. O'Kelly
1983 St. Vincent De Paul 1989 Pandit Nehru
1983 Andrew Jackson 1989 Margaret Burke Sheridan
1984 John McCormack



1990S

prizewinner Samuel Beckett ]]
, founder of the Land League ]]

















































1990 Michael Collins 1994 William Butler Yeats
1991 General Godart Van Ginkel 1995 Guglielmo Marconi
1991 Patrick Sarsfield 1995 Bartholomew Mosse
1991 John Costello 1996 Louie Bennett
1991 Charles Stewart Parnell 1996 Lady Augusta Gregory
1993 Edward Bunting 1996 Stanley Woods
1994 Edmund Ignatius Rice 1996 Artie Bell
1994 Edmund Burke 1996 Alec Bennett
1994 Eamonn Andrews 1996 Robert Dunlop & Joey Dunlop
1994 George Bernard Shaw 1996 Michael Davitt
1994 Samuel Beckett 1996 Thomas A. McLoughlin
1994 Sean McBride

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 'unidentified actor' as 'unidentified character' 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










































































1997 Kate O'Brien 1999 Sean Flanagan Millennium GAA Team
1997 St. Columciolle 1999 Sean Murphy Millennium GAA Team
1997 Daniel O'Connell 1999 John Joe Reilly Millennium GAA Team
1997 John Wesley 1999 Martin O'Connell Millennium GAA Team
1998 Lady Mary Heath nee Sophie Catherine Pierce 1999 Mick O'Connell Millennium GAA Team
1998 Col. James Fitzmaurice 1999 Tommy Murphy Millennium GAA Team
1998 J.P. Saul 1999 Sean O'Neill Millennium GAA Team
1998 Capt. Charles Blair 1999 Sean Purcell Millennium GAA Team
1998 Theobald Wolfe Tone 1999 Pat Spillane Millennium GAA Team
1998 Henry Joy McCracken 1999 Mikey Sheehy Millennium GAA Team
1999 Micheál MacLiammóir 1999 Tom Langan Millennium GAA Team
1999 Siobhan McKenna 1999 Kevin Heffernan Millennium GAA Team
1999 Noel Purcell 1999 Grace Kelly of Monaco
1999 Sean Lemass 1999 Jesse Owens
1999 St. Francis Xavier 1999 John Fitzgerald Kennedy
1999 Dan O'Keeffe Millennium GAA Team 1999 Mother Teresa
1999 Enda Colleran Millennium GAA Team 1999 John McCormack
1999 Joe Keohane Millennium GAA Team 1999 Nelson Mandela



2000-2004


, and Taoiseach ]]







2005 ON




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