asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if he will state the names of persons whose portraits have appeared on postage stamps since the foundation of the State.
Written Answers. - Portraits on Postage Stamps.
The information required by the Deputy is as follows:—
|
Name |
Occasion |
|
Daniel O'Connell |
Centenary of Catholic Emancipation. |
|
Father Theobald Mathew, O.F.M. Cap. |
Centenary of inauguration of Temperance Apostolate. |
|
George Washington |
150th Anniversary of the American Constitution. |
|
Dubhglás de h-Ide |
50th Anniversary of the tounding of the Gaelic League |
|
Sir William Rowan Hamilton. |
Centenary of the Expounding of the theory of Quaternions. |
|
Brother Edmond Ignatius Rice. |
Death Centenary. |
|
Theobald Wolfe Tone |
150th Anniversary of the Insurrection of 1798. |
|
James Clarence Mangan. |
Death Centenary. |
|
Thomas Moore |
Death Centenary. |
|
Robert Emmet |
150th Anniversary of Death. |
|
John Henry Cardinal Newman. |
Centenary of Newman's Rectorship of the Catholic University of Ireland. |
|
Commodore John Barry. |
Unveiling of statue of Barry which was presented to the Nation by the people of the United States. |
|
John Redmond |
Birth Centenary. |
|
Tomás Ó Criomhthain |
Birth Centenary. |
|
Admiral William Brown. |
Death Centenary. |
|
Father Luke Wadding, O.F.M. |
Tercentenary of Death. |