Project Type:
Arts in Education/ Book Project
Dates:
2014–2016
Participant Group:
Children from 10 primary schools in Northern Ireland and Ireland
Facilitators:
Mary Branley (writer), Ann Donnelly (artist)
Partners:
Kilkenny Education Centre, Education Authority of Northern Ireland
Funders:
Reconciliation Fund (Department of Foreign Affairs)
100 Year History
The 100 Year History Project was a two-year collaboration (2014-2016) involving over 300 children from ten schools across Ireland and Northern Ireland. The project offered an opportunity for children to have active participation in the Decade of Commemorations (1912-1922) and to meaningfully contribute to the commemorative experience through their own self-directed research.
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25/11/2016 No Repoduction Fee if used with reference to "Across an Open Field".
Minister for Education and Skills, Richard Bruton, T.D. launches ‘Across an Open Field’, published by kidsown.ie.
Across an Open Field is Ireland’s first history book written and illustrated by children, and was launched (Friday 25th) in Kilkenny Education Centre.
Photo Shows. The Weight of History….
Aimee Dunne and Killian Lacey pupils from Lisnafunchin National School, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny carry copies of Across and Open Field into the Kilkenny Education Centre, yesterday for the books launch by Minister Richard Bruton. Lisnafunchin National School is one of the ten primary schools involved in producing the book which is published by kidsown.ie
Photo Brian Farrell
MORE;
Over 300 children from 10 primary schools in Ireland and Northern Ireland investigated the events of 1912-1922 during a two-year project led by Kids’ Own Publishing Partnership. Funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs Reconciliation Fund, the book was created by children aged 8-12 from schools in Antrim, Down, Dublin, Galway, Kilkenny, Limerick, Monaghan and Tyrone. The children became action researchers within their own communities, each school taking a different direction as the children found their own areas of interest and exploration. Several schools engaged a local historian to support them in their research.
Further Info Emma Eager at Kids’ Own Publishing Partnership
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Within the school context, the children led a research process that was focused around open discussion and creative activity with a professional artist and writer. One of the aims of the project was to uncover stories from within the communities where the schools are situated. Leading questions for the process were: How do we link the local and the global in a meaningful way? In researching stories with local relevance, how do we meaningfully include the large number of children whose ancestors might have been in far flung parts of the world in the early 20th Century?
Across an Open Field: Stories and artwork by children from Ireland and Northern Ireland about the Decade of Commemorations 1912-1922 was published as one of the project’s outcomes.
