{"id":1182,"date":"2022-03-06T21:56:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T21:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2022-03-06T21:56:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T21:56:01","slug":"march-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"March Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This month\u2019s meeting will take place\u00a0<strong>in Armagh County Museum at 7pm<\/strong>. It will start with our Annual General Meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FionaByrns.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FionaByrns.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1183\" width=\"233\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FionaByrns.jpg 279w, http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FionaByrns-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The AGM will be followed by a talk at 7:30pm. Our speaker this month is Fiona Byrne, Curator of History at the Ulster Folk Museum (National Museums NI). Fiona has been working in museums for over 15 years, focusing mainly on the Decade of Centenaries collections, especially World War One and 1916 material. More recently, she has been working on the Irish Folk Life collections and this continues to be her main focus and area of research.\u00a0She has taken a particular interest in straw work collections, such as St. Brigid\u2019s crosses. She will be discussing St. Brigid, objects and customs associated with her and why she still has such a strong following today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month\u2019s meeting will take place\u00a0in Armagh County Museum at 7pm. It will start with our Annual General Meeting. The AGM will be followed by a talk at 7:30pm. Our speaker this month is Fiona Byrne, Curator of History at the Ulster Folk Museum (National Museums NI). Fiona has been working in museums for over &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/?p=1182\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March Meeting<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-current"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1185,"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/1185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}