{"id":6438,"date":"2016-04-11T12:15:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T12:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/?p=6438"},"modified":"2018-04-10T14:32:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T14:32:02","slug":"1916-letters-give-students-different-slant-on-history-irish-examiner-11-april-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/1916-letters-give-students-different-slant-on-history-irish-examiner-11-april-2016","title":{"rendered":"1916 Letters give students different slant on history, Irish Examiner, 11 April 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Autumn 2015, the Letters of 1916 project collaborated with St Angela’s College in Cork as part of its community engagement event in Cork<\/a>\u00a0which was generously funded by a Science Foundation Discover grant.<\/p>\n

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Peter Mooney in France (middle row on the right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Letters of 1916 team had the pleasure of visiting\u00a0St Angela’s College to carry out a workshop with the Transition Year history students. The students had been working with\u00a0a collection of 1916 letters for a number of weeks prior to the school visit. Under the direction of their teacher, Ms Helene O’Keeffe, the students had prepared posters relating to aspects of Sergeant Peter Mooney’s life. The Peter Mooney collection of letters was added to the Letters of 1916 project by Peter’s son, Willie Mooney. The letters in the collection were exchanged between Peter and his sister Katie during World War 1.<\/p>\n

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Letters 1916, St Angela’s Cork<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Following the fascinating presentations about farm life, life as a WW1 soldier, the life of women in 1916 and Irish society at the time, we moved to the computer room for the workshop in which the students learned about the Letters of 1916 workflow, before finally adding the letters they had been engaging with for weeks to the online system.<\/p>\n

In today’s Irish Examiner, there is an article<\/a> by Niall Murray which delves deeper into how the transition year students at St Angela’s College explored\u00a0the Mooney letters from the collection, and carried out\u00a0additional research into life in Ireland during 1916.<\/p>\n

What did the TY students at St Angela’s think about working with the 100 year old letters? Here are some of their reactions:<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn Junior Cert history, you just learn about dates mainly, but not the details about the slums in Dublin or the fighting. I thought before that it was the whole country fighting against the British\u201d<\/p>\n

Alice McCarthy<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could tell from looking online at the Census they had a big farm. There were very few machines, labour was how work was done on the farm ,\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0Ciara Dilworth<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s cool to look up all these people and find out more\u201d<\/p>\n

Emily Crowley<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We think so too Emily!<\/p>\n

Click below to read more student responses and the article<\/a>\u00a0on www.irishexaminer.com:<\/p>\n

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Irish Examiner, 11 April 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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If you are a teacher and are interested in using Letters of 1916 with your students, please see the EDUCATION<\/a> section of\u00a0our website for lesson plans, resources and ideas.<\/p>\n

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