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booklet printing servicesPostage stamps of Ireland are the postage stamps issued by the stamp issuing authority of the independent Irish state from 1922 to present. Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland when the world's first postage stamps were issued in 1840. These first postage stamps, and all subsequently issued stamps, were available for use in Ireland until Irish independence in 1922. Because the new Irish Government did not have their own postage stamps available, they overprinted the existing stamps. Introduction2d Map of Ireland: first Irish postage stampThe Irish Free State issued the first overprinted stamps on 17 February 1922 and on 6 December 1922 the Department of Posts and Telegraphs issued a 2d value definitive postage stamp of its own with the Map of Ireland design. Ofig an Phoist, the Irish Post Office, was a section of The Department of Posts and Telegraphs and they continued to issue Irish stamps until the division of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs into two semi-state organisations in 1984 when An Post took over the responsibility for all Irish postal services including the issuing of postage stamps. Introductory details about the postage stamps issued in Ireland have been taken from the catalogues, handbooks and other publications produced by the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, An Post, stamp dealers, philatelic publishers and philatelic societies. The bottom-line |