{"id":2221,"date":"2015-04-02T13:33:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T13:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2015-04-02T13:33:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T13:33:17","slug":"death-of-michael-collins-of-athy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/death-of-michael-collins-of-athy\/","title":{"rendered":"DEATH OF MICHAEL COLLINS, OF ATHY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Leinster Leader<\/em> 27 March 1971\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Death of Michael Collins, Athy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Michael Collins, Clogorra, Athy, who died last week at the age of 82 was ex-Irish Guardsman who fought in the 1914-\u201818 War.<\/p>\n<p>When The last English monarch to visit Ireland arrived here in 1910 the deceased was on parade in the Phoeninx Park. When he left the British Army he worked with C.I.E. until he retired on pension. He was interred in St Michael\u2019s Cemetery Athy.<\/p>\n<p>The day after Mr. Collins\u2019s Death his brother-in-law, Mr Timothy Smith, who had lived with him also died. He was aged 75. He was interred in Geraldine Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Re-typed by Lynn Potts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leinster Leader 27 March 1971\u00a0 Death of Michael Collins, Athy Mr. Michael Collins, Clogorra, Athy, who died last week at the age of 82 was ex-Irish Guardsman who fought in the 1914-\u201818 War. When The last English monarch to visit Ireland arrived here in 1910 the deceased was on parade in the Phoeninx Park. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspaper-articles"],"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\/2221","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=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}