{"id":1059,"date":"2013-05-03T12:55:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T12:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.229.91.100\/libraryandarts\/library\/ehistory\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2013-05-03T12:55:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T12:55:17","slug":"the-gathering-coill-dubh-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/the-gathering-coill-dubh-4\/","title":{"rendered":"THE GATHERING: COILL DUBH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"4\"><strong>Growing up in Coill Dubh, Number 42<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Our family moved to Coill Dubh in 1963 when I was 14 years old. My parents, Mary and Micheal McManus came from Counties Monahan and Fermanagh, my mother from Fermanagh and my father from Monahan. My father was a motor mechanic. He had a garage in Fermanagh, but just thought it was time for a change. He applied for a job with Bord ma Mona and was succesful in his application. We then moved to County Kildare. I have one sister and four brothers, Maura is the eldest, then myself, Micheal, Hugh, Thomas and Conor. The boys all went to Coill Dubh School, then onto Prosperous. I started work when I was around 15 years of age, it was in The Meat Packers in Leixlip. Then as I got older I started to go out and met lots of friends. We did most of our dancing in Rathcoffey Hall, and Lawlor&rsquo;s of Naas. My friends were Hannah Sullivan, Josie Barrett, Margaret Brereton and many more. Then I met my partner Noel Smullen, and got married on the 18th March 1978. Still going strong.<br \/>Mags Smullen.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><em>As Coill Dubh&#8217;s Gathering Festival gathers pace we will be publishing stories from many of the families and people who came to the area sixty years ago. Our thanks to Mags Smullen<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><strong><em>As Coill Dubh&#8217;s Gathering Festival gathers pace we will be publishing stories from many of the families and people who came to the area sixty years ago. Our thanks to Mags Smullen<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-folklore"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}