An Post has launched two stamps to honour Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross and Red Crescent agencies. Both stamps were designed by Ger Garland.
Mother Teresa was 18 when she arrived in Dublin to spend some time with the Loreto Sisters in Rathfarnham. In the following year, 1929, the nun, from an Albanian family background, went to India and worked as a teacher in Calcutta.
Henry Dunant was born at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1828. A branch of the Red Cross was established in Ireland in August 1939. He died in 1910, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.
