Students from the Senior Room and members of staff participated in a respectful Proclamation Day celebration. Ali O'Connell, the school's eldest student had the honour of raising the Tricolour for the first time ever over Our Lady's N.S, an act witnessed by all her schoolmates and a large group of parents.
Mrs O'Dea and Miss Mason read out the names of those executed after the Easter Rising. Mrs Egan read Padraig Pearse's poignant poem 'The Mother'
Fifth and Sixth Class students then read out the 1916 Proclamation as well as the 2016 Proclamation which they themselves composed.
Proceedings were then brought to a fitting close with a rendition of Amhrán na bhFiann.
Many thanks to all those who joined us to celebrate this historic occasion.
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