Due to unprecedented demand An Post in Ireland has issued a second print run of
the Che Guevara €1 stamp. The was first print run of 122,000 was issued on the 5th October 2017 and quickly taken up. I managed to pick up a sheet today from the local
post office and am really delighted. The stamp, based on Jim Fitzpatrick’s
iconic design from 1967, brings back so many memories of a time when many of my
generation were trying desperately to "discover" each other and your man, the
Guerrillero Heroica got to supervise much of our inept joy as he stared down at
us from the walls of bedsits throughout the country and beyond. The picture
caught the zeitgeist of the times for many of us, a Woodstock field that
existed somewhere between protest and passion.
Jim Fitzpatrick produced a 2-colour print (the star on the hat was
hand-painted yellow by him) based on a
March 5, 1960 photo of Che Guevara on the Malecón in Havana, by Alberto
Korda, Castro’s official photographer. Like Korda, Fitzpatrick did not
initially establish copyright and claim royalties on the picture, but like
Korda once he had later re-established copyright in 2008 he donated all
royalties into supporting the Cuban health care system.
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