{"id":3971,"date":"2019-11-01T14:30:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T14:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2025-10-02T13:56:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:56:50","slug":"curragh-encampment-wanted-250-carpenters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/curragh-encampment-wanted-250-carpenters\/","title":{"rendered":"CURRAGH ENCAMPMENT &#8211; WANTED 250 CARPENTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following advertisement appeared in The Freeman&#8217;s Journal on May 10, 1855<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CURRAGH ENCAMPMENT &#8211; WANTED, 250 CARPENTERS for the Erection of Soldiers&#8217; Huts on the Curragh of Kildare. Immediate employment will be given to good hands. Apply to Courtney and Stephens, Blackhall-place, Dublin.<\/p>\n<p><em>Further aspects of the heritage of the Curragh, including its military heritage, will be discussed at a seminar taking place in Newbridge on Saturday 16th November 2019. Further information available here: http:\/\/www.kildarearchsoc.ie\/aspects-of-the-curragh\/ (Pre-Booking Required as lunch is included).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following advertisement appeared in The Freeman&#8217;s Journal on May 10, 1855 CURRAGH ENCAMPMENT &#8211; WANTED, 250 CARPENTERS for the Erection of Soldiers&#8217; Huts on the Curragh of Kildare. Immediate employment will be given to good hands. Apply to Courtney and Stephens, Blackhall-place, Dublin. Further aspects of the heritage of the Curragh, including its military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[69,89,92],"class_list":["post-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-history","tag-curragh","tag-military","tag-newspaper"],"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\/3971","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=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7800,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions\/7800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}