{"id":631,"date":"2011-01-19T15:39:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T15:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.229.91.100\/libraryandarts\/library\/ehistory\/?p=631"},"modified":"2011-01-19T15:39:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T15:39:38","slug":"death-of-a-survivor-of-the-birkenhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/death-of-a-survivor-of-the-birkenhead\/","title":{"rendered":"DEATH OF A SURVIVOR OF THE BIRKENHEAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">\n<place w:st=\"on\"><\/place>\n<em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Leinster<\/em> <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Leader <\/em>19 March 1898<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><strong>Death of a survivor of the\n<place w:st=\"on\"><\/place>\nBirkenhead <\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Some of our readers may be old enough to recall the wreck of the Birkenhead, in 1852, at Table Bay,\n<place w:st=\"on\"><\/place>\nCape of Good Hope, when conveying troops to the Kaffir War. All the available boats were barely sufficient to contain the women and children. Mrs Honoria Kelly, one of the survivors, has just died at Rathangan. She was the wife of a soldier on board the ill-fated ship, who perished with his comrades.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><em>A Leinster Leader report of 19 March 1898 on the death of a survivor of the Birkenhead disaster of 1852.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><strong><em>A Leinster Leader report of 19 March 1898 on the death of a survivor of the Birkenhead disaster of 1852.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspaper-articles","category-uncategorised"],"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\/631","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=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}