{"id":70,"date":"2012-05-25T09:56:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T09:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aisling.org.uk\/?p=70"},"modified":"2014-05-09T09:14:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T09:14:38","slug":"irish-post-aisling-campaign-own-a-unique-irish-artwork-and-support-a-great-irish-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aisling.org.uk\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Irish Post Aisling Campaign &#8211; Own a Unique Irish Artwork and support a great Irish Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishpost.co.uk\/index.php\/component\/content\/article\/5-stories\/396-limited-edition-irish-prints-on-sale-in-aid-of-aisling-charity-appeal\">http:\/\/www.irishpost.co.uk\/index.php\/component\/content\/article\/5-stories\/396-limited-edition-irish-prints-on-sale-in-aid-of-aisling-charity-appeal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Celebrated illustrator David Rooney has donated a limited edition print to the Aisling charity mini-bus fundraising campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The resident Irish Post artist has donated this striking but poignant piece, pictured above, from the recent Ardal O\u2019Hanlon guest editor edition to help raise the \u00a328,000 needed for the charity\u2019s Return to Ireland project.<\/p>\n<p>There are 200 of the signed limited edition gicl\u00e9e prints up for grabs. Each costs just \u00a3140, with proceeds going to the charity.<\/p>\n<p>The piece is a reflection of an Irish farm cottage in the eyes of an old Irish London park bench resident \u2013 something the artist feels will resonate with many of the Irish living in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt close to the subject as I had uncles who went over to Britain in the 1950s,\u201d he said. \u201cFortunately they came back but told stories of a lot of guys who stayed on and ended up in pretty dire straits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The work of Wicklow-based Rooney, who also created the series of prints used in Fergal Keane\u2019s five part BBC documentary series The Story of Ireland, is much sought after.<br \/>\nMore info at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishpost.co.uk\/index.php\/component\/content\/article\/5-stories\/396-limited-edition-irish-prints-on-sale-in-aid-of-aisling-charity-appeal\">http:\/\/www.irishpost.co.uk\/index.php\/component\/content\/article\/5-stories\/396-limited-edition-irish-prints-on-sale-in-aid-of-aisling-charity-appeal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See http:\/\/www.irishpost.co.uk\/index.php\/component\/content\/article\/5-stories\/396-limited-edition-irish-prints-on-sale-in-aid-of-aisling-charity-appeal Celebrated illustrator David Rooney has donated a limited edition print to the Aisling charity mini-bus fundraising campaign. The resident Irish Post artist has donated this striking but poignant piece, pictured above, from the recent Ardal O\u2019Hanlon guest editor edition to help raise the \u00a328,000 needed for the charity\u2019s Return to Ireland project. There&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/aisling.org.uk\/?p=70\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aisling.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aisling.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aisling.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aisling.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aisling.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/aisling.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"http:\/\/aisling.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aisling.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aisling.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aisling.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aisling.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}