PHOTOGRAPHED 13 SEPTEMBER 2023
The Post & Telegraphs (P&T) was the name given to the government’s Post Office services inherited from the UK when the Irish Free State was established in 1922. The official Irish name for P&T is Puist agus Telegrafa.
One of my reasons for visiting Griffith Avenue was to photograph this example of street furniture as I thought that it was a surviving example of a late nineteenth-century British postbox but it is more recent.
Novelist and postal official Anthony Trollope, who lived for a time in Dublin, is credited with introducing post boxes to Ireland in the mid-19th century. The penny post had been such a success that postage volumes were on the increase and having to go into the post office simply to post a letter was becoming impractical.
In 1922. The first act of the new Irish government to order that all post boxes must be painted green (rather than red). It didn’t seem to matter that the boxes also featured the royal cypher symbols – such as ER (Edward Rex), GR (George Rex) or more commonly VR (Victoria Regina) – complete with a large crown still clearly visible through the green paint.
As time passed newer boxes appeared featuring the letters P&T (Post & Telegraphs) and later An Post.
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