{"id":2479,"date":"2015-10-27T12:13:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T12:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2024-06-24T12:34:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T11:34:06","slug":"wedding-of-old-ira-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wedding-of-old-ira-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding of an old IRA man, Michael Doody, Naas, 1965"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Leinster Leader,<\/em> 30 January 1965 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As 71-year-old Michael Doody and his 65-year old bride Elizabeth McGrath, walked down the aisle of Our Lady and St. David\u2019s Church, Naas, after their marriage on Monday morning, the parish records showed them to be the oldest couple to wed in 300 years.<\/p>\n<p>Michael, a retired, postman in Naas, is native of Nurney, Athy. He was attached to the 5th Battalion,\u00a0\u00a0Carlow Brigade,\u00a0\u00a0Old I.R.A., and joined the Army in 1922. He retired from it in 1944. In his young days he was a side-drummer with Nurney Fife and Drum Band, which played in competitions all over Ireland. His bride is native of Naas and was a cook with the British W.A.A.C. at the officers\u2019 mess in Dover and Essex during World War 1.\u00a0She retired from the forces in 1919.<\/p>\n<p>The couple will reside at the bride\u2019s home at St. Patrick\u2019s Tee., Naas. Rev. S. Swayne, C.C., officiated at the marriage ceremony.\u00a0Friends of the couple, Mrs. Mary Lagrue and Mr. Willam O\u2019Brien, were matron of honour and best man.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leinster Leader, 30 January 1965 As 71-year-old Michael Doody and his 65-year old bride Elizabeth McGrath, walked down the aisle of Our Lady and St. David\u2019s Church, Naas, after their marriage on Monday morning, the parish records showed them to be the oldest couple to wed in 300 years. Michael, a retired, postman in Naas, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"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\/2479","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=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}