{"id":7049,"date":"2024-09-27T12:24:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T11:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/?p=7049"},"modified":"2025-10-29T18:22:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:22:05","slug":"obituary-for-michael-fitzsimons-leinster-leader-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/obituary-for-michael-fitzsimons-leinster-leader-1953\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary of Councillor Michael Fitzsimons 1953"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Leinster Leader\u00a0<\/em>of 12 September 1953 included a lengthy obituary following the death of Councillor Michael Fitzsimons. The page is available to read here <a href=\"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Death-of-Michael-Fitzsimons.pdf\">Death of Michael Fitzsimons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael Fitzsimons took a very active part in public affairs in Naas and in County Kildare throughout the first half of the twentieth century, including throughout the revolutionary decade. He was a member of Naas Urban Council for forty-eight consecutive years, also serving on the larger Kildare County Council from 1910 up to his death in 1953.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Leinster Leader\u00a0of 12 September 1953 included a lengthy obituary following the death of Councillor Michael Fitzsimons. The page is available to read here Death of Michael Fitzsimons Michael Fitzsimons took a very active part in public affairs in Naas and in County Kildare throughout the first half of the twentieth century, including throughout the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Michael-Fitzsimons-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Michael-Fitzsimons-600x600.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\/7049","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=7049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7658,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049\/revisions\/7658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}