{"id":922,"date":"2012-07-04T11:14:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T11:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.229.91.100\/libraryandarts\/library\/ehistory\/?p=922"},"modified":"2012-07-04T11:14:56","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T11:14:56","slug":"the-origins-of-macre-na-feirme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/the-origins-of-macre-na-feirme\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ORIGINS OF MACRE NA FEIRME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>The origins of Macra na Fe&iacute;rme<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Macra na Fe&iacute;rme (at first known as the Young Farmers&rsquo; Clubs) was founded as a national organisation at Newman House, St. Stephen&rsquo;s Green, Dublin, in September 1944. The founders were a twelve member group of agricultural advisers, rural science teachers and young farmers, all members or lecturers in discussion groups, which became known as young farmers&rsquo; clubs.<br \/>The first headquarters of Macra na Fe&iacute;rme was at the Town Hall, Athy, Co. Kildare and opened by Mr. Sean T. O&rsquo;Kelly, President of Ireland, in September 1947. Athy, Co. Kildare, Mooncoin, Co. Kilkenny and Kilmallock, Co. Limerick, are regarded as the first branches.<br \/>Stephen Cullinan, M. Agr. Sc. Rural Science teacher at Athy became founder, first Secretary of Macra na Fe&iacute;rme and first editor of the Young Farmers&rsquo; Journal, which later became today&rsquo;s Irish Farmers&rsquo; Journal.<br \/>Macra na Fe&iacute;rme founded Irish Farmers&rsquo; Journal, Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association, Macra na Tuaithe (later Foroige), National Farmers&rsquo; Association (now IFA), Farm Apprenticeship Scheme, Irish Farm Accounts Co-op (IFAC) and National Co-operative Farm Relief Services Ltd.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>[Taken from Macra na Fe&iacute;rme 50th Anniversary 1944-1994 Catalogue]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em><strong>The origins of Macra na Fe&iacute;rme taken from the 50th Anniversary 1944-1994 Catalogue<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><em><strong>The origins of Macra na Fe&iacute;rme taken from the 50th Anniversary 1944-1994 Catalogue<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-county-kildare","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\/922","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=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}