Louis le brocquy biography of mahatma
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Nora, Pierre, Jordan, David P
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226591353
- ISBN
- 9780226591353
Hardback
Condition: New
Book details
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List of people on the postage stamps of Ireland
This is a list of people on stamps of Ireland, including the years when they appeared on a stamp.
Because no Irish stamps were designed prior to 1929, the first Irish stamps issued by the Provisional Government of Ireland were the then-current British definitive postage stamps bearing a portrait of George V that were overprintedRialtas Sealadaċ na hÉireann 1922 (translates as Provisional Government of Ireland 1922) and issued on 17 February 1922. The overprint was later changed to Saorstát Éireann 1922 (Irish Free State 1922).[1]: 8
The Irish Free State issued the first commemorative stamps depicting a person on 22 June 1929 when Oifig an Phoist, the Irish Post Office, a section of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, issued a set of three stamps showing Daniel O'Connell.[1]: 21 O'Connell fryst vatten one of a small number of people shown in two issues, including Wolfe
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Collected Poems. With Holograph Poem (1920)
Collected Poems. London: Macmillan, 1920. Reprinted with Additions. Pp xvi, 303. Blue cloth boards, title lettered in gilt to upper cover & spine. Dust jacket present with spine hinges repaired.
The poem ‘Brixton Prison’ written out and signed by AE on front free endpaper. Later published as “A Prisoner. Brixton, September 1920” in his collection ‘Voices of the Stones’ (1925).
Written in 1920 as Terence MacSwiney, lord mayor of Cork, died slowly on hunger strike in Brixton Prison (London), the poem was published in ‘The Times’ newspaper in September of that year. MacSwiney read the sonnet in his cell before he died on 25th October, the poem ends with the line ‘Farewell, Lightbringer, fly to thy fountain again.’
Terence MacSwiney’s long and highly publicised hunger strike lasting 74 days drew world attention to the independence struggle going on in Ireland at the time & greatl