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# Flying the flag
Your photos: Children share their hopes and dreams as Ireland marks its Proclamation Day
From pre-schools to the Garda College – here’s how Ireland has been marking the day.
WE’RE HEADING INTO a busy few weeks in terms of 1916 centenary celebrations.
The big Easter Sunday State Commemoration Ceremony, of course, takes place on Sunday week – and there are all manner of concerts, exhibitions, talks and other events happening too.
Today, though, it’s been Proclamation Day – and the idea really seems to have caught the imaginations of people, young and old, around the country.
From pre-schools to universities, the day is being marked wherever classes are taught.
At the heart of the idea is the Proclamation for a New Generation project, whereby schools and colleges write and share their own proclamation for the Ireland of 2016.
Students have also been raising the flags that were issued to every school in the country by members of the Defence Forces.
By the looks of it though, it’s not just schools and colleges who have been joining in.
Here’s how we’ve been marking Proclamation Day…
By raising the flag…
By getting into character…
By working together…
By creating new proclamations…
“The biggest problems are homelessness, inequality and environmental issues,” the children of Our Lady’s Clonskeagh said in their version.
Even though we’re young it doesn’t mean we can’t make a difference. For every problem we can find a solution. We all have hopes and dreams of the future.
Up the road in Ballyogan the children of Gaelscoil Shliabh Rua talk about taking care of the environment, investing in education, promoting peace and creating links with the diaspora (as Gaeilge of course).
In Roscommon, the pupils of Kilteevan National School write the following:
We, the children of the twenty first century, want to proclaim, for another hundred years, that Ireland is a great and good country. We want a safe, green environment, free from litter and water pollution with clean, fresh air.
Their proclamation ends:
We should try to house our homeless and eliminate homelessness. This is our 2016 proclamation of how we want our country to be, to secure it for the next generation.
https://www.facebook.com/Kilteevan/posts/899810063451434
Celebrating the original…
Agus Cáca Milis…
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