Irish Women (Ireland 2020)

From the AnPost website:
Pioneering Irish Women
‘N’ Rate Strip of 5 Stamps

Irish women have long been pioneers and innovators both at home and abroad. Amongst the visionaries who encourage the continuation of their successes in a new generation of women in Ireland are:

  • Carmel Snow, pioneering Editor-in-Chief of Harpers Bazaar, was considered the most powerful fashion arbiter in America from the 1930s to the 1950s
  • Maureen O’Hara – actor, whose stellar Hollywood film career, spanning seven decades, led to an honorary Lifetime Academy Award in 2014 aged 94
  • Lilian Bland, who flew Ireland’s first powered biplane
  • Maeve Kyle – the first woman to represent Ireland at the Olympics, when she qualified for the sprints in Melbourne 1956
  • Sarah Purser – artist, in 1923 she became the first female member of the Royal Hibernian Academy

Technical Specifications:

Date of Issue: March 5, 2020
Value & Quantity: N Strip of 5 (238k)
Design: Design HQ
Size: 30mm x 51mm
Paper: TR 102gsm Yellow Green Phosphor PVA gum
Colour: Black with various spot colours
Make-up: Sheetlet of 15
Perforations: 14 x 13.25
Printing Process: Lithography
Printer: Royal Joh. Enschedé

More information here on the AnPost website.