Stamps celebrate Mother Teresa and Red Cross Founder, Henry Dunant

17 June 2010

Set style by Irish designer, Ms Ger Garland, one shows a portrait of Henry Dunant with the 1859 Battle of Solferino in the background, the horrors of which spurred him to develop plans for a neutral organisation to care for wounded soldiers.  The other stamp shows Mother Teresa against an image of the Missionary of Charity which she founded in Calcutta in 1950.

The stamps and a special First Day Cover may be purchased online at www.irishstamps.ie and at all main post offices.  

 

Further information: 
An Post Corporate Communications, GPO
Tel: (01) 705 7064