{"id":2458,"date":"2014-03-14T12:54:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T12:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xl1916apps.mucampus.ie\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2018-04-10T14:51:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T14:51:22","slug":"st-patricks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/st-patricks-day","title":{"rendered":"St.Patrick&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl id=\"attachment_1210\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 265px;\">\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_6927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6927\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6927\" src=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-14-at-14.35.13.png\" alt=\"St. Patrick's Day 1916 Postcard from M\u00e1ire in Rathmore\/Killarney to Piaras B\u00e9asla\u00ed, National Library of Ireland\" width=\"580\" height=\"928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-14-at-14.35.13.png 580w, https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-14-at-14.35.13-188x300.png 188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Patrick&#8217;s Day 1916 Postcard from M\u00e1ire in Rathmore\/Killarney to Piaras B\u00e9asla\u00ed, National Library of Ireland<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/dd>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\"><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>This will be the first St.Patrick&#8217;s Day celebrated by the Letters 1916 Project!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.4em;\">We are delighted to be able to highlight a few letters from the project&#8217;s archive on this occasion.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.4em;\">The two letters and a postcard below come from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nli.ie\/pdfs\/mss%20lists\/beaslai.pdf\">Piaras B\u00e9asla\u00ed Papers<\/a>, a collection from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nli.ie\/\">National Library of Ireland<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.4em;\">Click on the link to view the letter:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/diyhistory\/items\/show\/276\">St. Patrick\u2019s Day postcard from \u2018M\u00e1ire\u2019 to Piarais B\u00e9asla\u00ed, 1916<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/diyhistory\/items\/show\/230\">Letter from Patrick Langford Beazley to Piaras B\u00e9asla\u00ed on St. Patrick\u2019s eve 1916<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/diyhistory\/items\/show\/231\">Letter from Patrick Langford Beazley to Piaras B\u00e9asla\u00ed with \u00a31 to celebrate St. Patrick\u2019s Day, 1916<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Selection of letters from Patricks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/diyhistory\/items\/show\/440\">Letter from Patrick Pearse, 3 December 1915 (Military Archives)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A letter written Patrick Pearse, executed as one of the leaders of the 1916 Rising, in December 1915. The letters was probably written to Joseph Michael Stanley, a printer, and refers to the printing of Christmas cards.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/diyhistory\/items\/show\/240\">Letter from Patrick J. Little, 15 April 1916 (UCD Archives)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A letter from Patrick J. Little, editor of the New Ireland newspaper. The letter was written a week before the Easter Rising and encloses copies of \u2018Secret Orders issued to Military Officers\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/diyhistory\/items\/show\/752\">Letter from Patrick Sheehan, 22 February 1916 (National Archives of Ireland)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A letter was written by Patrick Sheehan, a labourer in County Cork, who was injured while carrying a bundle of empty sacks down a stairs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/diyhistory\/items\/show\/865\">Letter from Patrick Blair Carpin to his sister Jo Carphin, 28 April 1916 (Private Collection)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A letter from Patrick Carphin, a native of Rathgar in Dublin, to his sister. Carphin gives a detailed description of the Easter Rising as he saw it and tells how he and his daughter were wounded by crossfire.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/diyhistory\/items\/show\/268\">Letter from Patrick Foran to Lady Clonbrock, 27 November 1915 (National Library of Ireland)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A letter from Patrick Foran, an Irish prisoner of war in Germany. Foran thanks Lady Clonbrock for a parcel of socks she had sent him.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Thanks to<a href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/about\/people\/\"> Dr Brian Hughes<\/a>, an Associate Editor for the Letters 1916 project who compiled the list of letters above.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will be the first St.Patrick&#8217;s Day celebrated by the Letters 1916 Project! We are delighted to be able to highlight a few letters from the project&#8217;s archive on this occasion.\u00a0The two letters and a postcard below come from the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/st-patricks-day\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  St.Patrick&#8217;s Day<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[204],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6928,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions\/6928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}