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Sunday, 20 March 2011

The many faces of Ireland

Over the years I have accumulated a large number of cards from Ireland, mostly from family.  The older ones sometimes show a romanticised version of a traditional Ireland.




The more modern ones usually show beautiful scenery or modern city life.




The one I want to show today, because of the stamps, dates from 1964 but doesn't really fit into either category.


The view is of what was at the time University College Dublin but now is the National Concert Hall.  It was originally built for the Dublin International Exhibition of 1865.


The stamps on it were first issued in the 1920s but I like them better than most of the more recent definitive issues but maybe I'm just old-fashioned.  I think the green map is probably the most apt, but the Celtic cross is my all time favourite.

This is a post for Sunday Stamps, now hosted by Violet Sky at "See it on a Postcard!"
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