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Welcome to the Website of the Irish Philatelic Circle Introduction: The Circle seeks to further the study of the Stamps, Philately and Postal History of Ireland. Amongst the areas of interest to our members are:-
- Pre stamp material
- Irish Postal history from earliest times
- GB stamps used in Ireland
- Registered, Express and Censored mail
- the Transition Period (1916-25)
- Irish overprints on GB stamps (1922-35)
- First Day Covers
- Airmails, including first flights
- Maritime mail
- Destination mail
- Postage due items
- Postmarks and Cancellations of all sorts
- and above all the Stamps themselves from Overprints to Modern material, anything Irish in fact, and that includes Northern Ireland just as much as the Republic.
Amongst the benefits of membership of The Irish Philatelic Circle:-
- Quarterly journal (Irish Philately)
- Regular meetings in London
- Annual general meeting and display competition
- Regular auctions for members to buy and sell
- and the means to contact those with a common philatelic interest
The majority of our members are in Britain and Ireland but we have members from all around the World and you are welcome to join us wherever you may live. To find out more or join the Circle please contact either our Membership Secretary Martin Taylor or the Webmaster Stan Challis who will be pleased to answer any questions you may have. A selection of recent articles from Irish Philately is available by clicking on the links at the right. These will be changed from time to time but to get the full content you will need to become a member. The Members’ Area is available only to members of the Irish Philatelic Circle and contains a growing library of information that is generally not readily available elsewhere together with details of other projects being undertaken by the Membership.
DVD Philip Kane has scanned all previous issues of Irish Philately (back to the original newsletters of the Irish Philatelic Study Group in 1960) and these are now available on disk. Several supplements are also included and the disk represents tremendous value with nearly 200 issues included. Price for members is Euro22 (£20 or USD33): for non-members the price is Euro30 (£27 or USD45) to include post and packing. Please contact Philip directly to order your copies. Members: If you have not already contacted me for your password, please do so by clicking on my contact details above. We now receive the Journal of the GBPS on a regular basis. Please go to the Members pages to find out what is in the current edition. I will be happy to let you have copies of articles that are of interest to you.
The March issue of Irish Philately should now be with Members. The contents include:-
- Foynes
- Beyond the catalogues - the 1944 Four Masters issue
- Biography - Dr John Mackey
- Irish Ship Letters - a checklist
- Irish Cinderellas - part VII
- Galway skeleton illustrations
- Editor’s interview - Brian Warren
- The Picture Postcard (with reference to Skibbereen)
- plus other usual features.
Copy date for the June 2012 edition is 15 May 2012.
MEMBERS. John Lennon will be looking at the 1944 Rice and 1945 Davis issues in the next issue and welcomes any input you may be able to give him. All other contributions are gratefully received.
NEW PUBLICATION. I am advised of a new publication which may be of interest to members - ‘History of the Mail Routes to Ireland to 1850′ written by George Ayres. More detail can be found at www.lulu.com
Officers 2011-2012
- President: Barry Cousins, Shah Alam, Malaysia
Vice President: Brian Warren, Dublin Secretary: Douglas Law, Co Durham, England Treasurer: Martin Taylor, Leicester, England Editor and Webmaster: Stan Challis, Guernsey - Auctioneer: Paddy Smithers, Dublin
Irish area secretary: John Lennon, Dublin Southern area secretary: Peter Wood, London Committee members: Paddy Smithers, Dublin; Jacques Renollaud, Paris; Finbar O’Mahony, Dublin; Frans Hermse, Netherlands; John Matthews, Donegal, Ireland; Michael Priestley Edinburgh; Philip Kane, Dublin. Updated 23 March 2012