{"id":2714,"date":"2014-04-02T19:38:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T19:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xl1916apps.mucampus.ie\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2016-06-14T12:33:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T12:33:24","slug":"new-details-gas-attack-irish-born-soldiers-1916-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/new-details-gas-attack-irish-born-soldiers-1916-emerge","title":{"rendered":"New details of gas attack on Irish born soldiers in 1916 emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p>Ronan McGreevy&#8217;s article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/world\/europe\/new-details-of-gas-attack-on-irish-born-soldiers-in-1916-emerge-1.1743819\">the Irish Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Details of over 500 soldiers killed have been revealed by the UK <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/first-world-war\/\">National Archives<\/a> in Kew.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New details of horrific gas attacks on the western front which killed more than 500 Irish-born soldiers during Easter Week 1916 have been revealed by the UK National Archives in Kew.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6826\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6826\" style=\"width: 404px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6826\" src=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/image.jpg\" alt=\"The National Archives: The list of casualties stretches to 10 pages. \" width=\"404\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/image.jpg 620w, https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/image-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The National Archives: The list of casualties stretches to 10 pages.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the space of three days between April 27th and April 29th 1916, while fighting was going on in Dublin, the Germans released poison gas into trenches held by British soldiers from the predominantly Irish 16th Division at Hulluch in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/search\/search-7.1213540?tag_location=France&amp;article=true\">France<\/a>. (&#8230;)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/world\/europe\/new-details-of-gas-attack-on-irish-born-soldiers-in-1916-emerge-1.1743819\">Click here<\/a> to read the full article.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronan McGreevy&#8217;s article in the Irish Times: &#8220;Details of over 500 soldiers killed have been revealed by the UK National Archives in Kew. New details of horrific gas attacks on the western front which killed more than 500 Irish-born soldiers <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/new-details-gas-attack-irish-born-soldiers-1916-emerge\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  New details of gas attack on Irish born soldiers in 1916 emerge<\/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":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714"}],"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=2714"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6830,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions\/6830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}