{"id":1071,"date":"2010-03-09T22:40:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T22:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.council.nyc\/press\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2016-12-12T22:40:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T22:40:34","slug":"in-celebration-of-irish-heritage-and-culture-speaker-quinn-reveals-irish-remembering-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2010\/03\/09\/1071\/","title":{"rendered":"In Celebration of Irish Heritage and Culture, Speaker Quinn Reveals Irish Remembering Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City Hall, NY \u2013 City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn today unveiled an Irish remembering quilt, which will be on display at City Hall through St. Patrick\u2019s Day. The quilt, which symbolizes the lives lost in the Northern Ireland conflict, was revealed at the City Council\u2019s annual Irish Heritage event.<\/p>\n<p>The quilt was designed by the family and friends of those lost in the conflict. Members of Relatives for Justice, a human rights advocacy organization that supports the bereaved and injured of the Northern Ireland conflict, brought the quilt to the City Council from Belfast.<\/p>\n<p>City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn said, \u201cWe in the New York City Council are delighted to display the Remembering Quilt at the entrance to the Council Chambers. As the people of Northern Ireland move forward with the transfer of policing and justice powers from London to Belfast and a lasting peace and stability is created, the Remembering quilt is an important tribute made by the people who lost loved ones in the conflict. I am enormously proud to share this beautiful piece of artwork with the people of New York.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Remembering Quilt is a project in which families bereaved as a result of the conflict in the North of Ireland make a personalized match in memory of their loved ones,\u201d said Clara Reilly, Chairperson for Relatives for Justice. \u201cThere are 49 squares on each quilt and 9 quilts have been created, with more to follow.  Two of these quilts will be on exhibition and we would like to thank Speaker Christine Quinn for being such a strong supporter of Ireland and for allowing this project to be on display for the public to participate, learn and enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City Hall, NY \u2013 City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn today unveiled an Irish remembering quilt, which will be on display at City Hall through St. Patrick\u2019s Day. The quilt, which symbolizes the lives lost in the Northern Ireland conflict, was revealed at the City Council\u2019s annual Irish Heritage event.<\/p>\n<p>The quilt was designed by the family and friends of those lost in the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2010\/03\/09\/1071\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}