St. Mary’s Secondary School’s Creative Engagement Project 2016 attracted great attention. Below are photographs and an article that was in the Irish Independent newspaper reporting on Proclamation Day 2016.
The pupils at St Mary’s Secondary School in Glasnevin paid special attention to the women of 1916 in their commemorative events.
Among their unique contributions to Proclamation Day was Rising Voices, a theatrical production created, written and performed by the students, giving voice to many who were involved in the Rising, particularly the women.
Students recreated moments from history on stage, showing the women’s political efforts, as well as the life of ordinary families in the tenements, the wedding scene of Grace Gifford and Joseph Plunkett, the executions of the signatories and a soliloquy from Countess Markievicz.
Even before yesterday, the show was a success, with matinee performances last week for nearly 300 fifth and sixth class students in local primary schools and two sell-out evening shows.
Meanwhile, Transition Year students marked the day by unveiling their 1916-themed porcelain display, designed with artist-in-residence Isobel Egan, which also honoured the women on 1916.
A busy Proclamation Day at the 770-pupil St Mary’s started with a Proclamation Day quiz for all classes while after the flag-raising ceremony at noon, sixth-year student Shannon Sheridan, dressed as Padraig Pearse, recreated the scene outside the GPO when she read the 1916 Proclamation on the school steps, while Aisling Byrne and Lauren McCausland read the school’s own Proclamation for a New Generation.
The singing of the national anthem had a special significance for principal Bernadette Bourke, who is a relation of its composer, Peadar Kearney.
“We wanted to make the day truly memorable and historically significant,” said English and drama teacher Donna Callan.
Irish Independent
www.independent.ie
Photographs by Colin O’Riordan, The Independent
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- FOR II EDUCATION 1916, KATHERINE DONNOLLY STORY.
St. Mary's Secondary School, Holy Faith Convent Student Shauna Sheridan, as PH Pierse pictured with the Proclamation and The Schools' students enacted the reading of the Proclamation at The Glasnevin school yesterday.
PIC COLIN O'RIORDAN
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- FOR II EDUCATION 1916, KATHERINE DONNOLLY STORY.
St. Mary's Secondary School, Holy Faith Convent Student Shauna Sheridan, as PH Pierse pictured with the Proclamation and The Schools' students enacted the reading of the Proclamation at The Glasnevin school yesterday.
PIC COLIN O'RIORDAN
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- FOR II EDUCATION 1916, KATHERINE DONNOLLY STORY.
St. Mary's Secondary School, Holy Faith Convent Student Shauna Sheridan, as PH Pierse pictured with the Proclamation and The Schools' students enacted the reading of the Proclamation at The Glasnevin school yesterday.
PIC COLIN O'RIORDAN
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- FOR II EDUCATION 1916, KATHERINE DONNOLLY STORY.
St. Mary's Secondary School, Holy Faith Convent Student Shauna Sheridan, as PH Pierse pictured with the Proclamation and Megan Rothbaccer (lt) and Brianna Nutley (rt) at The Schools' students enactment of the reading of the Proclamation at The Glasnevin school yesterday.
PIC COLIN O'RIORDAN
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- FOR II EDUCATION 1916, KATHERINE DONNOLLY STORY.
St. Mary's Secondary School, Holy Faith Convent Student Shauna Sheridan, as PH Pierse pictured with the Proclamation and The Schools' students (from left) Sara Mebtouche, Kirsten Lee, Megan Rothbaccer, Brianna Nutley, Shauna Sheridan, Hannah Crowley, Megan Reilly and Karen Lorla enacted the reading of the Proclamation at The Glasnevin school yesterday.
PIC COLIN O'RIORDAN
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- FOR II EDUCATION 1916, KATHERINE DONNOLLY STORY.
St. Mary's Secondary School, Holy Faith Convent Student Shauna Sheridan, as PH Pierse pictured with the Proclamation and The Schools' students enacted the reading of the Proclamation at The Glasnevin school yesterday.
PIC COLIN O'RIORDAN
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- FOR II EDUCATION 1916, KATHERINE DONNOLLY STORY.
St. Mary's Secondary School, Holy Faith Convent Student Shauna Sheridan, as PH Pierse pictured with the Proclamation at The Schools' students enactment of the reading of the Proclamation at The Glasnevin school yesterday.
PIC COLIN O'RIORDAN
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- FOR II EDUCATION 1916, KATHERINE DONNOLLY STORY.
St. Mary's Secondary School, Holy Faith Convent Student Shauna Sheridan, as PH Pierse pictured with the Proclamation. The Schools' students enacted the reading of the Proclamation at The Glasnevin school yesterday.
PIC COLIN O'RIORDAN
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- FOR II EDUCATION 1916, KATHERINE DONNOLLY STORY.
St. Mary's Secondary School, Holy Faith Convent Student Shauna Sheridan, as PH Pierse pictured with the Proclamation and Hannah Crowley who is a relative of Paudraig Pierse (lt) and Kirsten Lee a relative of Chrissy Moloney, interned in Kilmainham Gaol in 1916.
The Schools' students enacted the reading of the Proclamation at The Glasnevin school yesterday.
PIC COLIN O'RIORDAN
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- FOR II EDUCATION 1916, KATHERINE DONNOLLY STORY.
St. Mary's Secondary School, Holy Faith Convent Student Shauna Sheridan, as PH Pierse pictured with the Proclamation.
Also in picture is The School Principal, Bernadette Burke who is a relative of Peadar Kearney, the writer of Amhrán na bhFiann.
The Schools' students enacted the reading of the Proclamation at The Glasnevin school yesterday.
PIC COLIN O'RIORDAN
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