It is a book to celebrate more than 1,000 stories. Those involved in 2000 Ireland - The Millennium Legacy, which has just been published, came to Dublin's National Concert Hall this week to salute the book and remember their commemoration of the millennium.
"This book is the record of how we, as a nation, celebrated this momentous event," said Laurie Carr, who compiled and edited the book with Tom Rowley.
Many of those involved in the celebrations, which were supported by the National Millennium Committee, came to a reception to toast the book.
Among them was Mary Phelan, sister of the late Jo Jo Dollard, who said the specially commissioned monument to missing people (by sculptor Anne Mulrooney) recently unveiled by the President, Mrs McAleese in Kilkenny Castle "gave the families a ray of hope". Her husband, Martin Phelan, nodded in agreement.
Cllr Allan Rainey, chairman of Omagh District Council at the time of the bomb, chatted to Michael McCauley, a millennium officer, about the lighting of the Omagh Flame, from which all other millennium beacons across the UK were subsequently lit and from which the Taoiseach lit his millennium candle before a crowd of 25,000 people in Merrion Square.
John Marsh, of the Irish Raptor Study Group, chatted to ornithologist Lorcan O'Toole and his wife, Bernie O'Toole, who are all working to ensure the survival of the golden eagle, which was re-introduced into Glenveagh National Park in Co Donegal as part of the millennium celebrations. This summer, they plan to release 15 more into the region.
A group from Balla in Co Mayo, headed by John McEllin, with neighbours such as Bríd Uí Néill and Pádraig Cunnane, former principal of Balla National School, were there to salute the book too. McEllin was proud to describe the planting of 2,000 oak trees by 600 local people on "the last day of the second millennium and the dawning of the third", as Laurie Carr put it.
More than 2,500 projects were funded by the National Millennium Committee. Proceeds from sale of the book, 2000 Ireland - The Millennium Legacy, which is in bookshops, go to the Society of St Vincent de Paul.