
{"id":4857,"date":"2019-04-03T15:10:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T14:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/?p=4857"},"modified":"2019-04-03T15:10:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T14:10:41","slug":"the-lion-of-donegal-by-alex-macdonald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/the-lion-of-donegal-by-alex-macdonald\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lion of Donegal by Alex MacDonald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium alignright wp-image-4858\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/files\/2019\/03\/IntoTheLightCDfront-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/files\/2019\/03\/IntoTheLightCDfront-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/files\/2019\/03\/IntoTheLightCDfront-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/files\/2019\/03\/IntoTheLightCDfront-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/files\/2019\/03\/IntoTheLightCDfront-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/files\/2019\/03\/IntoTheLightCDfront-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/files\/2019\/03\/IntoTheLightCDfront.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>James Duffy from Donegal was my distant relation by marriage. He won the Victoria Cross (the highest British military award for bravery) during World War I. His life in returning to a changed Ireland after the war was not easy.<\/p>\n<p>Alex MacDonald comes originally from the Strath of Kildonan in Sutherland, but has spent most of his adult life in urban Scotland. He started playing folk music in his early teens and went on to write his own songs. In recent years, aided and abetted by his two sons, he has recorded three albums and gigged all over Scotland with his band.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist website:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexjmacdonald.co.uk\">https:\/\/www.alexjmacdonald.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Single title:<\/strong> The Lion of Donegal<br \/>\n<strong>Album title:<\/strong> Into the Light<br \/>\n<strong>Release Date:<\/strong> 25\/11\/2017<br \/>\n<strong>Single artist:<\/strong> Alex MacDonald<br \/>\n<strong>Single duration:<\/strong> 6:08<br \/>\n<strong>Record Label:<\/strong> Alex J MacDonald<br \/>\n<strong>Catalogue No:<\/strong> AJM-ITL<br \/>\n<strong>Writers:<\/strong> Alex J MacDonald<br \/>\n<strong>Publishers:<\/strong> Alex J MacDonald<br \/>\n<strong>Explicit?: No<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Search Terms:<\/strong> {Search terms:18}<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"follow-cat-feed\"> Follow these topics: <a  href=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/category\/member-releases\/contemporary\/feed\/\">contemporary<\/a>, <a  href=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/category\/featured-release\/feed\/\">Featured release<\/a>, <a  href=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/category\/member-releases\/folk-rock\/feed\/\">folk rock<\/a>, <a  href=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/category\/member-releases\/feed\/\">Releases<\/a>, <a  href=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/category\/member-releases\/song-writer\/feed\/\">songwriter<\/a><\/p><div id=\"downloadinfo-panel\" style=\"display: block;max-height: 200px;overflow: scroll;width: 100%;margin-bottom:15px\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Duffy from Donegal was my distant relation by marriage. He won the Victoria Cross (the highest British military award for bravery) during World War I. His life in returning to a changed Ireland after the war was not easy. Alex MacDonald comes originally from the Strath of Kildonan in Sutherland, but has spent most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7310,"featured_media":4858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57,7,22,4,62],"tags":[251,253,252,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-4857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-contemporary","8":"category-featured-release","9":"category-folk-rock","10":"category-member-releases","11":"category-song-writer","12":"tag-donegal","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-victoria-cross","15":"tag-world-war-i","16":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/files\/2019\/03\/IntoTheLightCDfront.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4877,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857\/revisions\/4877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}