Old Stamps Of Ireland ( Europe )

Not much can be said about Irish stamps due to the fact that Ireland was part of Great Britain until its independence in 1922 which saw the Irish government issued as an interm  measure overprinted stamps of King George V .  Dolland printing house in Dublin and others did this overprint work between February and December 1922.  Definitive postage stamps of Ireland are the regular series of definitive postage stamps issued by the Irish Free State between 1922 - 1937 and by the Republic of Ireland since 1937.  Seven distinctly different series of designs have been released and the currency was changed on three occasions while the design remained the same.

1.   ISSUED 1922 - OVERPRINTED STAMPS OF KING GEORGE V OF ENGLAND

2.   IRISH FREE STATE FIRST DEFINITIVES - 1922 - MAP OF  IRELAND

3. SWORD OF LIGHT - EARLY DEFINITIVES

4.  ARMS OF THE PROVINCES - EARLY DEFINITIVES

5.   CELTIC CROSS - EARLY DEFINITIVES

6.  ISSUED 1929 ( IRISH FREE STATE )

7.  ISSUED 1931 ( IRISH FREE STATE )

8.  ISSUED 1934 ( IRISH FREE STATE )

9.  ISSUED 1934 ( IRISH FREE STATE )

10. IRISH FREE STATE

11.  ISSUED 1930 ( IRISH FREE STATE )

12.   ISSUED 1938 ( REPUBLIC OF IRELAND )

13.   ISSUED1939 ( REPUBLIC OF IRELAND )

14.   REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

15.  IRISH WILD FLOWER DEFINITIVES II