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On display will be early Irish Postal History with forerunners starting with a Corsini letter from 1591, the General Post Period from 1657, the Local Dublin posts of 1773 to 1831; into the Unified Period 1827-1839 and Adhesive Period to 1875. Also included will be frames covering shipbuilding in Belfast, and the three Olympic-Class liners built by Harland & Woolf. The Birth of the Irish Republic 1900 to 1949, including forerunner pro- and anti-Home Rule labels, the 1916 Rising and Civil War, the New Post Office and the postal history of Ireland in the Second World War. Airmails of Ireland, beginning with the forced landing of Alcock and Brown into a bog at Clifden, Co. Galway in 1919 and including a card addressed to Dublin written on board a Zeppelin flight in 1913. Also on display will be Cinderella’s, Exhibitions, Railways and a look at The Road to Independence taking in aspects of the Victorian Post Office in Ireland. And finally, development of the post in Ireland from the