{"id":3983,"date":"2014-11-14T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xl1916apps.mucampus.ie\/?p=3983"},"modified":"2018-04-10T14:42:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T14:42:07","slug":"3983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/3983","title":{"rendered":"Featured Letter by Edward Kearns: John Quinn to George Gavan Duffy, 9 September 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6038\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/index.php\/2014\/11\/14\/letter-john-quinn-george-gavan-duffy-9-september-1916\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6038\" src=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/P0152_14_001.jpg\" alt=\"Letter from John Quinn to George Gavan Duffy, 9 September 1916 (University College Dublin Archives)\" width=\"140\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/P0152_14_001.jpg 3187w, https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/P0152_14_001-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/P0152_14_001-768x1126.jpg 768w, https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/P0152_14_001-699x1024.jpg 699w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Letter from John Quinn to George Gavan Duffy, 9 September 1916 (University College Dublin Archives)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We have just added our newest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/?p=3298\" target=\"_blank\">featured letter post<\/a>\u00a0to the site. \u00a0The post was created by\u00a0Edward Kearns who\u00a0studied English and Sociology in University College Dublin before moving on to the M.Phil course in Digital Humanities and Culture in Trinity College Dublin. Edward has written for the campus newspapers of both universities, and has recently completed his master&#8217;s thesis entitled &#8216;Data-Mining the Great American Novel&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The feature\u00a0focuses on a letter written by\u00a0John Quinn, on 9 September 1916, and\u00a0sent across the Atlantic to his fellow lawyer George Gavan Duffy.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/diyhistory\/items\/show\/219\" target=\"_blank\">A copy of the letter<\/a>\u00a0has found its way into the Letters of 1916 collection, and it serves as a fascinating portal to its time, and in particular to the context of Roger Casement&#8217;s execution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/index.php\/2014\/11\/14\/letter-john-quinn-george-gavan-duffy-9-september-1916\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have just added our newest\u00a0featured letter post\u00a0to the site. \u00a0The post was created by\u00a0Edward Kearns who\u00a0studied English and Sociology in University College Dublin before moving on to the M.Phil course in Digital Humanities and Culture in Trinity College Dublin. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/3983\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Featured Letter by Edward Kearns: John Quinn to George Gavan Duffy, 9 September 1916<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[253],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983"}],"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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6042,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983\/revisions\/6042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}