{"id":8887,"date":"2026-11-06T10:33:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T10:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/?p=8887"},"modified":"2026-11-06T11:43:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:43:23","slug":"majority-of-nurses-irish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/majority-of-nurses-irish\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of nurses Irish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No fewer than eighty-seven of the one-hundred and seven nurses who received their hospital final certificates at the annual prize-giving at Whipps Cross Hospital, Leytonstone, London, last week were from Ireland. The newly qualified nurses include Mary Butterfield (Sister Ethelreda) The Haven, Ballitore, Co. Kildare, and Eilis Teresa Byrne (Sister Fionnuala),Ballagh, Monasterevan, Co. Kildare.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Leinster Leader<\/em> 21 October 1961<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Postcard image of Main Street, Ballitore, c.1960s, from Kildare Local Studies Collection<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8888\" src=\"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Main-St-Ballitore2-768x491.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Main-St-Ballitore2-768x491.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Main-St-Ballitore2-1200x768.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Main-St-Ballitore2-1536x983.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Main-St-Ballitore2-2048x1310.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No fewer than eighty-seven of the one-hundred and seven nurses who received their hospital final certificates at the annual prize-giving at Whipps Cross Hospital, Leytonstone, London, last week were from Ireland. The newly qualified nurses include Mary Butterfield (Sister Ethelreda) The Haven, Ballitore, Co. Kildare, and Eilis Teresa Byrne (Sister Fionnuala),Ballagh, Monasterevan, Co. Kildare. Leinster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kildare-county-archives","category-newspaper-articles"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"James Durney","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/jdurney\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8887","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8887"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8891,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8887\/revisions\/8891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}