{"id":10407,"date":"2014-02-18T12:08:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T12:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=10407"},"modified":"2020-08-12T12:14:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T11:14:47","slug":"to-the-end-of-the-earth-the-irish-military-diaspora-in-south-america-john-mackenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=10407","title":{"rendered":"To the End of the Earth: The Irish Military Diaspora in South America &#8211; John MacKenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bZpFEPN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14825\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bZpFEPN.jpg\" alt=\"bZpFEPN\" width=\"246\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second part in our \u2018To the End of the Earth\u2019 \u2013documentary series on the Irish Military Diaspora in South America focus on the short but amazing life of Monaghan man John MacKenna.<\/p>\n<p>His life is an intriguing insight into a changing world both here in Ireland and in South America. The part played by him in the Chilean war of independence. And the incredible links that still hold fast between his descendants in Chile and their kin here in Ireland to this day.<br \/>\nMaria McKenna Curly, Peter McKenna, Patrick McKenna Cussen and Tony McKenna Cussen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4628\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/JohnMacKenna.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('4628','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/JohnMacKenna.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/JohnMacKenna.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=10407-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/JohnMacKenna.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"JohnMacKenna.mp3\">Download<\/a> (25.6MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second part in our \u2018To the End of the Earth\u2019 \u2013documentary series on the Irish Military Diaspora in South America focus on the short but amazing life of Monaghan man John MacKenna. His life is an intriguing insight into a changing world both here in Ireland and in South America. The part played by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4629\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/JohnMacKenna.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('4629','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/JohnMacKenna.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/JohnMacKenna.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=10407-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/JohnMacKenna.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"JohnMacKenna.mp3\">Download<\/a> (25.6MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,81],"tags":[1733,1960,2366,2412,3014,3076,3093],"class_list":["post-10407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-documentaries","category-to-the-ends-of-the-earth","tag-john-mackenna","tag-maria-mckenna-curly","tag-patrick-mckenna-cussen","tag-peter-mckenna","tag-the-irish-military-diaspora-in-south-america","tag-to-the-ends-of-the-earth-2","tag-tony-mckenna-cussen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14829,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10407\/revisions\/14829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}