Ireland
The Irish Post Office has collaborated several times with the postal administration of another country to release a joint issue.
| Year | Postal Administration | Topic | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | United States | James Hoban Commemoration | White House Architect |
| 1984 | United States | John McCormack | Tenor |
| 1989 | West Germany | Irish Franconian Apostles | St. Kilian, St. Colman and St. Totnan |
| 1995 | Belgium | 250th Anniversary of the Battle of Fontenoy | |
| 1997 | Mexico | 150th Anniversary of the San Patricio Saint Patrick's Battalion |
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| 1999 | United States | Irish Immigration Commemoration | 150th anniversary of the Irish Famine |
| 1999 | Australia | Polly Woodside | Three-masted, iron-hulled barque launched in Belfast in 1885 |
| 2004 | Sweden | Nobel Prize in Literature | William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney |
| 2005 | Canada | Biosphere Reserves | Killarney National Park & Waterton Lakes National Park featuring the Saskatoon berry |
| 2008 | Spain | Popular dancing | Irish dancer & Flamenco dancer |
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Famous quotes containing the word ireland:
“It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.”
—V.S. (Victor Sawdon)
“The tragedy of Northern Ireland is that it is now a society in which the dead console the living.”
—Jack Holland (b. 1947)
“In Ireland they try to make a cat cleanly by rubbing its nose in its own filth. Mr. Joyce has tried the same treatment on the human subject. I hope it may prove successful.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
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