{"id":534,"date":"2010-03-13T12:30:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T12:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.229.91.100\/libraryandarts\/library\/ehistory\/?p=534"},"modified":"2010-03-13T12:30:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T12:30:32","slug":"former-internee-on-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/former-internee-on-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"FORMER INTERNEE ON VISIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong><em>Leinster Leader 31st May 1975<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>FORMER INTERNEE ON VISIT<\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">A former Luftwaffe flyer who crash-landed in Wexford in April \u201941 and was interned at Curragh Camp from then until the summer of \u201946 renewed acquaintance with a number of friends in the Newbridge-Curragh area during the last week.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Austrian Max Galler, now working in his native country, stayed in Newbridge during his visit to the country and met many people whom he knew here during the Emergency.\u00a0 One man with whom he was very anxious to renew acquaintance was Mr. Mick Sheehan of Newbridge and Curragh Camp in whose shoe repair shop at Curragh Camp Herr Galler worked for a time while interned.\u00a0 The Austrian visited other places where he worked while here.\u00a0 He was accompanied by his son Maxie, and had some amusing anecdotes to tell of the years when he was the enforced guest\u00a0 of the Irish nation at Tintown, Curragh Camp.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<em><strong>The Leinster Leader of May 1975 reports on a nostalgic visit to the Newbridge-Curragh area of a\u00a0 former Luftwaffe flyer who crash-landed in Wexford in April \u201941 and was interned at Curragh Camp from then until\u00a0summer &#8217;46<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>The Leinster Leader of May 1975 reports on a nostalgic visit to the Newbridge-Curragh area of a&nbsp; former Luftwaffe flyer who crash-landed in Wexford in April &rsquo;41 and was interned at Curragh Camp from then until&nbsp;summer &#8217;46<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/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-534","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\/534","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=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}