{"id":2447,"date":"2020-03-13T01:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.co.uk\/SU\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2023-01-19T23:05:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T15:05:56","slug":"turf-cutting-co-roscommon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/turf-cutting-co-roscommon\/","title":{"rendered":"Turf cutting in Co Roscommon in 1881"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"548\" height=\"819\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nolligan.co.uk\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cutting-Turf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cutting-Turf.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cutting-Turf-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turf cutting in Co Roscommon in 1881, from the Illustrated London News, February 26th, 1881<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"635\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nolligan.co.uk\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/TurfCutting2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/TurfCutting2019.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/TurfCutting2019-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/TurfCutting2019-768x476.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/TurfCutting2019-484x300.jpg 484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cut turf stacked for drying, Lissananny, Co. Roscommon, August 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To sit beside the board and drink good wine <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And watch the\u00a0turf\u00a0smoke coiling from the fire <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And feel content and wisdom in your heart, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the best of life;<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/W._B._Yeats_bibliography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"William Butler Yates\">William Butler Yates<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cutting turf to heat homes has been a tradition for millennia, but the EU has ruled that it must stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"550\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nolligan.co.uk\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/turf3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/turf3.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/turf3-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/turf3-409x300.jpg 409w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">February 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turf cutting in Co Roscommon in 1881, from the Illustrated London News, February 26th, 1881 Cut turf stacked for drying, Lissananny, Co. Roscommon, August 2019 To sit beside the board and drink good wine And watch the\u00a0turf\u00a0smoke coiling from the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/turf-cutting-co-roscommon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eire","category-then-and-now"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4060,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions\/4060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}