{"id":2649,"date":"2016-03-01T12:48:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T12:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2016-03-01T12:48:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T12:48:49","slug":"irish-national-aid-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/irish-national-aid-association\/","title":{"rendered":"IRISH NATIONAL AID ASSOCIATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NATIONALIST AND LEINSTER TIME 30 June 1916<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A fund has been inaugurated to provide for the relatives of those in Dublin and in other parts of Ireland who have suffered through the recent rebellion. There are in all 3,300 cases of imprisonment. The fund is under the control of the Irish National Aid Association, which has just been established. Subscriptions should be forwarded to the office of the Association, 10 Exchequer Street, Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Of the rebel leaders who were executed (ways \u201cWayfarer\u201d in the \u201cThe Nation\u201d) Major MacBride\u2019s bearing was the most soldierly. The officer in charge of the firing party showed (I am told) some emotion. MacBride said gently, \u201cDo not let what you have to do ever disturb your rest.\u201d And when it was proposed to blind his eyes he refused and said, I\u2019ve been looking down rifle-barrels all my life. Fire when l bow my head.\u201d MacBride was a trained soldier, having held the rank of Major in the army of the South African Republic. He commanded the Irish Brigade at Glencoe during the Boer war.<\/p>\n<p>Re-typed by Hannah Mustapha<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATIONALIST AND LEINSTER TIME 30 June 1916 A fund has been inaugurated to provide for the relatives of those in Dublin and in other parts of Ireland who have suffered through the recent rebellion. There are in all 3,300 cases of imprisonment. The fund is under the control of the Irish National Aid Association, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2649","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\/2649","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=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}