Event Desc:
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,