{"id":6890,"date":"2020-06-09T22:33:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T21:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpol.qub.ac.uk\/?p=6890"},"modified":"2020-06-09T22:33:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T21:33:53","slug":"dickens-irish-friends-and-family-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/dickens-irish-friends-and-family-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Dickens: Irish Friends and Family Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video Dr Leon Litvack, a world authority on Dickens\u2019s life and work takes you through PRONI&#8217;s digital exhibition. The exhibition uses PRONI archives to explore the unique and lasting friendship between Charles Dickens and three prominent Ulstermen \u2013 politician James Emerson Tennent, newspaper editor Francis Dalzell Finlay and the diplomat Lord Dufferin.<\/p>\n<p>It touches upon the weird and the wonderful of Dickensian society, from execution and bodysnatching to tokens of love and friendship, allowing the visitor to consider how they may have influenced Dickens\u2019s writing.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the exhibition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nidirect.gov.uk\/publications\/dickens-irish-friends-and-family-ties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information regarding PRONI, please visit their website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nidirect.gov.uk\/proni\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/vectors\/charles-dickens-english-writer-3560940\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">featured\u00a0image<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<em>has been used courtesy of a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Creative Commons license.\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dickens: Irish Friends and Family Ties\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PIyFUb2sdx8?start=37&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Dickens: Irish Friends and Family Ties\u2019 marks the 150th anniversary of the death of  celebrated Victorian writer, Charles Dickens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2417,"featured_media":6869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy-engagement-live"],"mb":[],"acf":{"authors":{"simple_value_formatted":"","value_formatted":null,"value":null,"field":{"ID":9774,"key":"field_66d0cbf58f930","label":"Authors","name":"authors","aria-label":"","prefix":"acf","type":"relationship","value":null,"menu_order":1,"instructions":"","required":0,"id":"","class":"","conditional_logic":0,"parent":9772,"wrapper":{"width":"","class":"","id":""},"post_type":["authors"],"post_status":["publish"],"taxonomy":"","filters":["search"],"return_format":"id","min":0,"max":10,"allow_in_bindings":0,"elements":["featured_image"],"bidirectional":0,"bidirectional_target":[],"_name":"authors","_valid":1}},"description":{"simple_value_formatted":"","value_formatted":"","value":"","field":{"ID":9776,"key":"field_66d2183027749","label":"Description","name":"description","aria-label":"","prefix":"acf","type":"wysiwyg","value":null,"menu_order":3,"instructions":"","required":0,"id":"","class":"","conditional_logic":0,"parent":9772,"wrapper":{"width":"","class":"","id":""},"default_value":"","allow_in_bindings":0,"tabs":"all","toolbar":"basic","media_upload":0,"delay":1,"_name":"description","_valid":1}}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/76\/2020\/06\/Charles-Dickens.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"mfb_rest_fields":["title","jetpack_featured_media_url","jetpack_sharing_enabled","amp_enabled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}