{"id":3716,"date":"2014-10-16T08:48:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T08:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xl1916apps.mucampus.ie\/?p=3716"},"modified":"2016-03-01T17:39:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T17:39:03","slug":"ancestors-fight-1916-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/ancestors-fight-1916-rising","title":{"rendered":"Did your ancestors fight in the 1916 Rising?"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Article by Sheila Langan on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/roots\/history\/Did-your-ancestors-fight-in-the-1916-Rising-PHOTOS-.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IrishCentral+(IrishCentral)#\">Irish Central<\/a>, 15\u00a0October 15 2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 312px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&quot;Did\" src=\"http:\/\/media.irishcentral.com\/images\/MI-Tom-in-Captains-Uniform.jpg\" width=\"312\" height=\"234\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Above, Tom Byrne, whose story is the first in their Living History Project.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Did your ancestors fight in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/topic\/1916-Centenary.html\">1916 Rising<\/a>? A group of Irish filmmakers want to hear their stories.<\/p>\n<p>With the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/topic\/1916-Centenary.html\">centenary of Ireland\u2019s 1916 Easter Rising<\/a>\u00a0just under a year and a half away, ideas about how best to commemorate and reflect upon this seminal moment in Irish history have already begun to circulate, accompanied by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/news\/Former-Irish-leader-slams-Easter-1916-Rising-commemorations.html\">a great deal of debate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For filmmakers Keith Farrell and Dave Farrell of Tile Media, the crux of commemoration is not the big heroic names that have endured through history, nor is it the question of who deserves to take part. Instead, they have chosen to focus on the stories of the regular people active in and affected by the Rising.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/roots\/history\/Did-your-ancestors-fight-in-the-1916-Rising-PHOTOS-.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IrishCentral+(IrishCentral)#\">Click here <\/a>to read the full article.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Article by Sheila Langan on Irish Central, 15\u00a0October 15 2014 &nbsp; &#8220;Did your ancestors fight in the\u00a01916 Rising? A group of Irish filmmakers want to hear their stories. With the\u00a0centenary of Ireland\u2019s 1916 Easter Rising\u00a0just under a year and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/ancestors-fight-1916-rising\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Did your ancestors fight in the 1916 Rising?<\/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\/3716"}],"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=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5851,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions\/5851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}