Title: Postage stamps of Ireland - Wikipedia
Headings: Postage stamps of Ireland
Postage stamps of Ireland
Contents
Background
British stamps used in Ireland
Stamp issuing authorities
Forerunners
Essays
Postage stamps
Overprints
Name of state
Definitives
Commemoratives
Miniature sheets
Airmails
Postage dues
Sterling issues
Decimal issues
Booklets
Watermarks
Postal stationery
Official
Stamped-to-order
Collecting Irish stamps
Numbering systems
Stamp societies
Local societies
See also
References and sources
Notes
Sources
External links
Philatelic societies

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Postage stamps of Ireland
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Stamps issued by the Republic of Ireland
This article does not discuss country definitives for Northern Ireland. For those see Country definitives: Northern Ireland. 2d Map of Ireland: first Irish postage stamp
The postage stamps of Ireland are issued by the postal operator of the independent Irish state. Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland when the world's first postage stamps were issued in 1840. These stamps, and all subsequent British issues, were used in Ireland until the new Irish Government assumed power in 1922. Beginning on 17 February 1922, existing British stamps were overprinted with Irish text to provide some definitives until separate Irish issues became available. Following the overprints, a regular series of definitive stamps was produced by the new Department of Posts and Telegraphs, using domestic designs. These definitives were issued on 6 December 1922;