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Stamps and Other Design Work
In addition to portraits, throughout his life Seán O'Sullivan had been involved in several other art related projects.

In 1932 the Saorstát Eireann Official Handbook was published as record of Cumann na nGaedheal’s years in government, which included a multitude of O'Sullivan's illustrations.

Following this, the novel An Béal Bocht, published originally in Irish by Flann O'Brien in 1941, includes an "Irish map of the world" drawn by Seán O'Sullivan. In the map, O'Sullivan purposefully only marked places that were considered significant at the time. In his rendition of Ireland, he included places such as Sligo Jail, travel routes to Scotland, and deposits of illegal alcohol. The United States was glossed over with only the cities of New York, Boston, and Springfield being noted, and England's only significant detail was the mention of Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. This was done for comedic effect. Furthermore, he designed stations of the cross for the Church of the Little Flower in Ballingtogher, County Sligo in 1933, murals depicting a west Ireland wedding for the Murals Bar in Tullamore, County Offaly in 1942, and murals for Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda in 1958. Throughout the 1950s he also painted many south and west Ireland landscapes for a private collector, one of his most popular examples being 'Lough Gill', a 1953 painting which is currently being held at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA).

Moreover, Seán O'Sullivan was known for his many popular stamp designs. He created commemorative stamps which depicted his paintings of Douglas Hyde and Sir William Rowan Hamilton in 1943, Edmund Ignatius Rice in 1944, and in 1966 O'Sullivan's paintings of the seven signatories of the Irish proclamation, Éamonn Ceannt, James Connolly, Joseph Plunkett, Patrick Pearse, Seán MacDiarmada, Thomas MacDonagh and Tom Clarke, were featured on stamps produced by An Post.