Revolution in learning about Irish history sees events in new ways

School students are learning about the Irish revolution in a new way through photos, documents, and maps showing some of the events and personalities in a different light.

An exhibition touring Cork and Kerry second-level schools offers a taste of the Atlas of the Irish Revolution, a book being finalised at University College Cork to offer a new approach to how the tumultuous events of a century ago are understood.

The tour was launched at St Angela’s College in Cork yesterday, an appropriate location as it is the former workplace of Mary MacSwiney. Caitríona Crowley, a transition year student, explained that the co-founder of Cumann na mBan’s Cork branch was arrested for her links to the revolutionary movement while teaching a maths class at the school in May 1916 after the Easter Rising.