{"id":59097,"date":"2019-10-24T01:24:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T01:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59097"},"modified":"2019-10-24T13:25:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T13:25:16","slug":"two-new-stamps-mark-50-years-of-thin-lizzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59097","title":{"rendered":"Two new stamps mark 50 years of Thin Lizzy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/thin-lizzy-stamps-4835703-Oct2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Two new stamps mark 50 years of Thin Lizzy<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Journal.ie<\/a><br \/>\n2019-10-07<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanMJourno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sean Murray<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/thin-lizzy-stamps-4835703-Oct2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img2.thejournal.ie\/inline\/4835721\/original\/?width=630&amp;version=4835721\" alt=\"Thin Lizzy_stamp pair\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Queues formed at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/General_Post_Office,_Dublin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GPO<\/a> earlier for fans to get their hands on the new stamps.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/An_Post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AN POST<\/a> HAS today launched two new stamps to mark fifty years of legendary Irish rock band <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thin_Lizzy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thin Lizzy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phil_Lynott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phil Lynott\u2019s<\/a> daughters Sarah and Cathleen, his grandchildren and ex-wife Caroline were on hand to unveil the new stamps earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>An Post said that queues formed at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/General_Post_Office,_Dublin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GPO in Dublin<\/a> today with fans snapping up the collector\u2019s items.<\/p>\n<p>One of them features a portrait of Lynott himself by artist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Fitzpatrick_(artist)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Fitzpatrick<\/a> while the other features the album artwork from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Rose:_A_Rock_Legend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Black Rose<\/em><\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/thin-lizzy-stamps-4835703-Oct2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queues formed at the GPO earlier for fans to get their hands on the new stamps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,28,459,8],"tags":[246,30411,1392,6650,30412,20011,6652],"class_list":["post-59097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-europe","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-ireland","tag-jim-fitzpatrick","tag-music","tag-phil-lynott","tag-sean-murray","tag-the-journal-ie","tag-thin-lizzy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59100,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59097\/revisions\/59100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}