{"id":6,"date":"2020-02-15T18:56:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T18:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2020-02-15T18:56:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T18:56:22","slug":"commissioners-of-irish-lights-looking-for-decorators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2020\/02\/15\/commissioners-of-irish-lights-looking-for-decorators\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioners of Irish Lights looking for decorators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many decades ago, the playwright Brendan Behan was employed by the Commissioners of Irish Lights &#8211; the all Ireland body responsible for lighthouses &#8211; as a painter. This was a role he didn&#8217;t appear to be good at &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedownrecorder.co.uk\/pages\/index.asp?title=A_summer_in_Co._Down_with_Behan\">the keeper of St. John&#8217;s Point lighthouse in Co. Down writing to Head Office to complain about Behan&#8217;s work ethic (or lack of!)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many years ago, the IHAI visited the lighthouse museum at the Bailey lighthouse on Howth Head and the original letter is on display there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Behan is long dead (1964) so he is unavailable to respond to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/breakingnews\/ireland\/dream-job-for-lovers-of-hard-work-lighthouses-and-painting--981860.html\">Commissioners&#8217; tender request for lighthouse painting services.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many decades ago, the playwright Brendan Behan was employed by the Commissioners of Irish Lights &#8211; the all Ireland body responsible for lighthouses &#8211; as a painter. This was a role he didn&#8217;t appear to be good at &#8211; the keeper of St. John&#8217;s Point lighthouse in Co. Down writing to Head Office to complain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}