Published jointly by the Irish Airmail Society
and Éire Philatelic Association
June 1996 - 8.5" x 11" 96 pages

Bill took more than eight years to assemble the information contained in this fine reference work. It covers all known mail-carrying flights to and from Ireland since the first successful non-stop trans-Atlantic flight of Alcock and Brown in 1919.

Each listing gives a brief description of the flight or series of flights. Included in this description is the date of the flight, the itinerary, the airline making the flight and other pertinent information. A 50% reduced illustration is provided for most flights and the different collectable covers from the flight are enumerated as well as the number of covers flown where known.

While an exhaustive treatment is not attempted for each and every flight it is expected that individual collectors will peruse a more detailed study of flights they are interested in.

Mr. Tim O'Shea
58 Porter Street
Granby, MA 01033-9516, U.S.A.

e-mail enquiries to: Tim O'Shea

or by emailing the Webmaster: Karl Winkelmann

or order directly from Éire Philatelic Association in U.S.A.

© 1997-2007 Karl Winkelmann
Updated 23 October 2007

As of January 22, 1999, there are five updates on this page, from the first additions that include a discovery copy of the use of a Type II Glasgow "AIR (wings) MAIL" cachet on an official registered cover through various Air France flights in 1987/8 and 1990 to the 1989 Air France first flight between Nice and Dublin via Paris.