{"id":1360,"date":"2014-04-04T20:05:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T19:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creativeengagement.ie\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2014-04-04T20:06:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T19:06:16","slug":"portlaoise-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeengagement.ie\/index.php\/portlaoise-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Portlaoise College &#8211; Creative Engagement Showcase 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativeengagement.ie\/index.php\/portlaoise-college\/web-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1361\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1361 alignnone\" alt=\"web-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creativeengagement.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/web-2-683x1024.jpg\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.creativeengagement.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/web-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.creativeengagement.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/web-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.creativeengagement.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/web-2.jpg 734w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Forgotten Famine People of the Queen\u2019s County: 1845 &#8211; 1850<\/p>\n<p>Portlaoise College TY class of 2014 are proud to present a documentary film that rolls back the mists of time and tells the tragic story of the Great Famine in Laois.<\/p>\n<p>In August 1845, potato blight struck Ireland, and the most devastating famine of modern times began. Laois, then Queen\u2019s County lost one quarter of her people. The neighbours and friends of our ancestors died in their hovels, on the sides of our roads and in the workhouses. Many fled across the sea, never to return.<\/p>\n<p>Accompany the students of Portlaoise College on a journey of discovery as they visit local sites, interview historians and dig into the archives.<\/p>\n<p>This documentary will intrigue anyone with a passion for history or an interest our county.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Forgotten Famine People of the Queen\u2019s County: 1845 &#8211; 1850 Portlaoise College TY class of 2014 are proud to present a documentary film that rolls back the mists of time and tells the tragic story of the Great Famine in Laois. In August 1845, potato blight struck Ireland, and the most devastating famine of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-slider","category-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativeengagement.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativeengagement.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativeengagement.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativeengagement.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativeengagement.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativeengagement.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativeengagement.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativeengagement.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativeengagement.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativeengagement.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativeengagement.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}