{"id":4202,"date":"2020-03-25T18:14:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T18:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=4202"},"modified":"2024-07-24T12:09:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T11:09:32","slug":"thoughts-on-the-establishment-of-new-manufactures-e-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/thoughts-on-the-establishment-of-new-manufactures-e-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts On The Establishment of New Manufactures in Ireland (1783)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Brooke founded a Cotton\u00a0 Manufacturing enterprise in 1780 in Co. Kildare. The village of Prosperous owes its origin to his endeavours.\u00a0 The attempt failed badly and was abandoned within a short number of years. Brooke subsequently became Governor of St. Helena.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thoughts on the Establishment of New Manufactures in Ireland: occasioned by the late freedoms we have obtained: with an account of the Manchester manufactury, established by Mr. Brooke. Written by a friend of his in the county of Kildare <\/em>was originally published in 1783 and is re-produced in pdf format here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/THOUGHTS-ON-THE-ESTABLISHMENT-OF-NEW-MANUFACTURES.pdf\">Thoughts On The Establishment of New Manufactures book<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Brooke founded a Cotton\u00a0 Manufacturing enterprise in 1780 in Co. Kildare. The village of Prosperous owes its origin to his endeavours.\u00a0 The attempt failed badly and was abandoned within a short number of years. Brooke subsequently became Governor of St. Helena. Thoughts on the Establishment of New Manufactures in Ireland: occasioned by the late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,29,39,119],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-4202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digitised-resources","category-industrial-heritage","category-online-resources","category-places","tag-prosperous"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1783-Prosperous-publication-456x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1783-Prosperous-publication-456x600.jpg","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\/4202","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=4202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}