State lottery ticket dated 1761 for the Benefit of the three United Hospitals. Issued to Captain Alcock by J. Coats. The "Three United Hospitals" were the Charitable Infirmary on Inns Quay, Mercer's Hospital, and the Hospital for Incurables in Donnybrook.
Good causes have long relied on raffles to raise money. This lottery ticket from 1761 was issued in aid of the three United Hospitals: the Charitable Infirmary on Inns Quay, Mercer’s Hospital, and the Hospital for Incurables in Donnybrook. Four years later, the Irish parliament established a nationwide hospital network funded by taxation and philanthropic donations.

2½p black and white stamp with image of 1916 rebel, a man with a rifle, outside the GPO “‘... In ainm Dé agus in ainm na glún D’imig Rómainn ...’ Forógra 1916’

2p green stamp and 3p blue stamp both with same design of a cross in the middle

White and brown coloured cast of the death mask of James Joyce. Has a protective latex cover.

On 11 January 1941, James Joyce – who was 58 years old – underwent surgery for a perforated ulcer in a Zurich hospital. The following day he fell into a coma, before waking, briefly, and calling for his wife and children. They were still on their way to the hospital when he died 15 minutes later. While two senior Irish diplomats were apparently in Switzerland at the time, neither attended Joyce’s funeral, and the Irish government subsequently declined Nora Joyce’s offer to permit the repatriation of his remains. This facsimile of Joyce’s death mask commemorates our greatest novelist.

4 identical 50 p stamps showing a colour drawing of St. Stephen’s Green.

1: 32p Colour drawing of the Long Room in Trinity
2: 52p Colour drawing of the entrance to Trinity