Art and design students may be interested in this Heritage Week lecture, which will be held in-person in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin on Tuesday 15 August 2023.
A century of Irish stamps features Stephen Ferguson from An Post Museum & Archive, who will trace the changing nature of Ireland’s image from the conservative and inward-looking era of the early Free State, to the more confident, socially progressive, and tech-savvy nation of today.
If interested, advance booking through Eventbrite is recommended. It's free.
In addition, The ‘Window on the Irish soul – 100 years of Irish stamps’ exhibition compliments the small digital exhibition released on 6 December 2022 which commemorated the centenary anniversary of the Anglo-Irish treaty when the newly independent Irish Post Office issued the first official Irish stamp – the well-known twopenny green map of Ireland design. The exhibition is free to visit, and available to view in the Meeting Room of the Royal Irish Academy until 30 August 2023. Open Monday to Friday 10:00-13:00, 14:00-17:00.
The digital exhibition is available now if you won't be able to make it to the Academy in August. It's a very interesting mini-history of the designs and images that have represented Ireland over the previous century.
An interesting article is also available to read online, in this blog interview with Stephen Ferguson.
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