Celebrating the Irish on Stamps

Stamps honoring Irish-Americans over the years include, clockwise from top left, a 1981 James Hoban stamp, a 1984 John McCormack stamp and a 1999 stamp honoring Irish immigration.

To mark St. Patrick’s Day March 17, here are five stamps that honor the contributions of Irish-Americans.

1. Irish Immigration stamp. Issued in 1999, this 33-cent stamp honored the first Irish immigrants to the United States, who arrived in the 17th century.

2. James Hoban stamps. The Irish-American architect who designed the White House — modeled on Leinster House in Dublin — was celebrated on two identical 18-cent and 20-cent stamps in 1981. 

3. Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan stamp. In 1980, USPS issued a 15-cent stamp recognizing Sullivan, the visually impaired Irish-American teacher famous for educating Keller, who was blind and deaf. 

4. John McCormack stamp. A 20-cent Performing Arts series stamp honored the centennial year of the Irish-American tenor’s birth in 1984.

5. Eugene O’Neill stamp. The playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature and wrote four Pulitzer Prize-winning plays graced a $1 Prominent Americans series stamp in 1967.

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