Oscar Wilde's mother features on An Post stamp to mark International Women's Day
Published: Thursday, 04 March 2021 12:28
In advance of International Women’s Day on Monday next, An Post has issued a new stamp celebrating the renowned 19
th century Irish nationalist and feminist writer, Jane, Lady Wilde (1821-1896) whose pen-name was ‘Speranza’.
She came to prominence in famine-stricken Ireland in 1848 when she wrote an unsigned revolutionary editorial in ‘The Nation’, the organ of the Young Ireland movement which prompted the suppression of the newspaper.
Unveiling the stamp, Debbie Byrne, Managing Director of An Post Retail said that Jane Lady Wilde was a women who epitomised the meaning of #ChoosetoChallenge, the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day. “She was a tireless and outspoken campaigner for women’s rights, equality and other causes.”