{"id":2744,"date":"2016-06-10T15:23:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T15:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=2744"},"modified":"2025-10-29T10:28:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:28:47","slug":"john-noonan-a-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/john-noonan-a-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"JOHN NOONAN, A TRIBUTE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tribute from Christopher Biek<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Hi Mario,<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I am not sure if you remember me but I am that fellow who came over from the states looking for storytellers about a year ago. My name is Christopher and you sent me on a quest to find John (Jack) Noonan. I did end up connecting with him and we had a lovely interview which I still have. I recently found his death notice while googling him, which made my heart heavy. I am contacting you in regards to an ethnographic fiction piece that I wrote based solely off his pictures and the interview we had. I have no real idea how his last days were, but that is the fictional part. I was wondering if you were interested in have either the interview or the piece I wrote. I wouldn&#8217;t normally give the interviews out but I feel like if you wanted it, it would be appropriate for your history of Kildare.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here is the link to the blog post I wrote which includes the story:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/travelleroftheways.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/07\/keeping-his-story-alive\/#more-271\">Keeping his Story Alive &#8211; John Noonan<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tribute from Christopher Biek Hi Mario, I am not sure if you remember me but I am that fellow who came over from the states looking for storytellers about a year ago. My name is Christopher and you sent me on a quest to find John (Jack) Noonan. I did end up connecting with [&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-2744","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\/2744","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=2744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7908,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions\/7908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}