{"id":3436,"date":"2018-03-13T15:05:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T15:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2025-10-29T11:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:42:11","slug":"curragh-choir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/curragh-choir\/","title":{"rendered":"CURRAGH CHOIR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Nationalist &amp; Leinster Times\u00a0<\/em> 30 October 1948<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Curragh Choir<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prior to the war most armies were renowned for their choirs, especially the Polish, Russian and German.\u00a0 The Irish Army, therefore thinks that there is no reason why they should not have a choir. It is proposed to organise a permanent Army Choir in the Curragh Camp for broadcasting and recording purposes.\u00a0 Already some members have been selected, but more are still required. In this undertaking the Army are not without civilian encouragement, and we all wish them every success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationalist &amp; Leinster Times\u00a0 30 October 1948 Curragh Choir Prior to the war most armies were renowned for their choirs, especially the Polish, Russian and German.\u00a0 The Irish Army, therefore thinks that there is no reason why they should not have a choir. It is proposed to organise a permanent Army Choir in the Curragh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-history"],"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\/3436","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=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7987,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions\/7987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}