{"id":756,"date":"2020-08-06T06:57:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T06:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faire-folk.com\/MNRenFestHistory\/?page_id=756"},"modified":"2020-08-06T06:57:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T06:57:21","slug":"irish-cottage-now-celtic-cottage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.faire-folk.com\/MNRenFestHistory\/site\/irish-cottage-now-celtic-cottage\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Cottage (now Celtic Cottage)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"wp-image-757\" style=\"width: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faire-folk.com\/MNRenFestHistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Irish-Cottage-Cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Irish Cottage - 1982 Program\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.faire-folk.com\/MNRenFestHistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Irish-Cottage-Cropped.jpg 2542w, http:\/\/www.faire-folk.com\/MNRenFestHistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Irish-Cottage-Cropped-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.faire-folk.com\/MNRenFestHistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Irish-Cottage-Cropped-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.faire-folk.com\/MNRenFestHistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Irish-Cottage-Cropped-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.faire-folk.com\/MNRenFestHistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Irish-Cottage-Cropped-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.faire-folk.com\/MNRenFestHistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Irish-Cottage-Cropped-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From 1982 Program<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Text:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the 1982 program<br>Text:<br>Ballina &#8211; an Irish Country Farm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the midst of &#8220;Shepherd&#8217;s Green,&#8221; our newest market meadow, is &#8220;Ballina,&#8221; a recreation of a thatched-roof country farmstead typical to 15th Century Ireland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Designed by Michael Beery, properties master for the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, the cottage, furnishings, and gardens were constructed by a combined effort of the Renaissance Festival and students from the University of Minnesota Theatre Department<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ballina was assembled using early Celtic building techniques. Foot-thick walls constructed with stone and plaster are capped with a hand-bound, hand-tied thatch roof. Interior life hubs around a magnificent stone cooking hearth. All cottage furnishings, designed by Beery after original period pieces, were hand-hewn and pegged in construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stop by and venture inside to partake of traditional Gaelic crafts, music, dance, and fireplace cooking demonstrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cottage was named Ballina after a similar cottage in Ireland owned by the R.J. O&#8217;Halloran family of Minnetonka. The O&#8217;Halloran clan, in proper period attire, will portray family O&#8217;Brennan bringing Ballina to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 1982 Program Text: From the 1982 programText:Ballina &#8211; an Irish Country Farm In the midst of &#8220;Shepherd&#8217;s Green,&#8221; our newest market meadow, is &#8220;Ballina,&#8221; a recreation of a thatched-roof country farmstead typical to 15th Century Ireland Designed by Michael Beery, properties master for the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, the cottage, furnishings, and gardens were constructed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":428,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-756","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faire-folk.com\/MNRenFestHistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faire-folk.com\/MNRenFestHistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faire-folk.com\/MNRenFestHistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faire-folk.com\/MNRenFestHistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faire-folk.com\/MNRenFestHistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.faire-folk.com\/MNRenFestHistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"http:\/\/www.faire-folk.com\/MNRenFestHistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/756\/revisions\/758"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faire-folk.com\/MNRenFestHistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faire-folk.com\/MNRenFestHistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}