{"id":7196,"date":"2024-12-20T16:59:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T16:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/?p=7196"},"modified":"2024-12-20T17:08:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T17:08:30","slug":"merry-christmas-happy-christmas-from-kildare-county-archives-local-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/merry-christmas-happy-christmas-from-kildare-county-archives-local-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas &#038; Happy New Year From Kildare County Archives &#038; Local Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kildare County Archives and Local Studies is now closed for in-person appointments until after the Christmas break. We will re-open in early January 2025. A huge thank you to everyone who visited us at our new location at Harbour View, Naas in 2024, accessed our online content or otherwise supported us throughout 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The postcard below offering Christmas Greetings, from our collections, is a view of the Square, Kildare Town from the early 20th century with Christmas Greetings added in red font.<\/p>\n<p>We wish you a Merry Christmas and very best wishes for 2025!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Christmas-Greetings-and-Best-Wishes-Kildare-Town-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7197\" src=\"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Christmas-Greetings-and-Best-Wishes-Kildare-Town-768x508.jpg\" alt=\"Postcard of Kildare Town in the early 20th century, with Christmas greetings included.\" width=\"768\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Christmas-Greetings-and-Best-Wishes-Kildare-Town-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Christmas-Greetings-and-Best-Wishes-Kildare-Town-1200x794.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Christmas-Greetings-and-Best-Wishes-Kildare-Town-1536x1017.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Christmas-Greetings-and-Best-Wishes-Kildare-Town-2048x1356.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kildare County Archives and Local Studies is now closed for in-person appointments until after the Christmas break. We will re-open in early January 2025. A huge thank you to everyone who visited us at our new location at Harbour View, Naas in 2024, accessed our online content or otherwise supported us throughout 2024. The postcard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-places"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Christmas-Greetings-and-Best-Wishes-Kildare-Town-1-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Christmas-Greetings-and-Best-Wishes-Kildare-Town-1-600x600.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\/7196","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=7196"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7204,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions\/7204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}