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1916: A guide for children, teenagers and teachers

1916

David Moore (16), from Glenties, Co Donegal, whose great-uncle, Anthony Gallagher fought in the Somme. Photograph: Jason McGarrigle

What did your family do during the Rising?

Darragh Murphy
September 23, 2015

Three children research their families’ pasts to find out what they were doing during the 1916 Rising – in Dublin, France and Africa

Schoolchildren’s Proclamation for a new, equal, peaceful Ireland

Sophie Bannon, a student at Loreto College, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin, with the 1916 proclamation. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

September 23, 2015

Students Sophie Bannon and Róisín Nic Liam have re-written the 1916 Proclamation, declaring a new, fair and pluralist Ireland, where water costs nothing

The 1916 centenary: what's in it for the young?

Brothers Ross and Patrick Gaynor, (right) from Terenure, Dublin, enjoy Step into History, part of RTÉ’s Road to the Rising (opposite page, top), on O’Connell Street, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

September 23, 2015

The coming year will be packed with 1916-related stuff: art and song contests, a new school subject, a project that asks school students to plan Ireland’s future – and more

A blow-by-blow guide to the Easter Rising

Ruined buildings in Dublin after the rising.

Darragh Murphy
September 23, 2015

The 1916 Rising was an armed rebellion against British rule in Ireland that began on Easter Monday and lasted a week.

Diarmaid Ferriter: why the Rising matters

A barricade in Pearse Street, Dublin, during the Easter Rising in 1916, in which fewer than 2,000 poorly armed, amateur soldiers fought the forces of the British empire. Photograph: Hulton archive/Getty Images)

Diarmaid Ferriter
September 23, 2015

Although militarily unsuccessful, the Rising and execution of leaders that followed had transformative impact

Poor children of Dublin collecting firewood from the ruined buildings damaged in the Easter Rising. Photograph: Getty Images

1916: 40 under-16s were shot in a single week

Darragh Murphy
September 23, 2015

One of the 40 children shot during the 1916 Rising was peeling an orange on Grafton Street. A baby was killed in her mother’s arms. Dublin was a dangerous place that week

1916: The revolution of the young

Darragh Murphy
September 23, 2015

Many teenagers took part in the 1916 Rising, either as messenger-boys or in the actual fighting

Interactive: a graphical guide to the Proclamation

Gallery attendents prepare the John Lavery painting of the trial of Roger Casement. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh

The art of conflict: paintings of 1916

1916 Schools
Aidan Dunne
September 23, 2015, 05:00

Jack B Yeats, Robert Ballagh and Sir John Lavery are among the artists who have taken inspiration from the 1916 Rising, writes The Irish Times art critic

Students create artwork inspired by 1916

1916 art

At the invitation of The Irish Times, Chris Merton (17) of Wesley College Dublin, used pencil, watercolour and collage for a picture of the GPO. "1916 was a turning point, and the GPO is a huge monument of that time. On the side is Michael Collins, symbolising those who died for our rights."

1916 art

Diarmuid McKenna (15) of Killina Presentation Secondary School, Co Offaly, after researching life in 1916, used pencils to depict a tenement family in Dublin. "I read up on life in 1916, found a picture on the web on my phone and drew it off that," he said. "It took me a couple of hours. Seeing people living in the same area now, there's a huge contrast."

In association with Ireland 2016

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Looking forward to the events of 2016, and back on 1916

Knowing how our country began helps us work out what kind of a place it might become in the future

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