 The Postmaster General of the Irish Free State issued an invitation to firms in Dublin and London on 1 February 1922 for the submission of designs for a permanent definitive stamp issue , and by March several designs had been submitted . The following companies and printers provided essays : Dollard Printing House Ltd . , Hely Ltd . , Perkins Bacon & Co . , and O 'Loughlin , Murphy & Boland . 
