GPO Witness History is a brand new permanent visitor attraction in the iconic GPO building on O’Connell Street, Dublin.

This highly immersive and engaging exhibition puts you right inside the GPO during Easter Week in 1916. Our TY students were there on Monday 25th April.

History came to life for them as they  experienced events from both sides of the conflict and through the eyes of bystanders caught in the crossfire through electronic touch screens, video, audio visual booths, sound and authentic artefacts – many previously unseen.

Our TY students were  immersed in the action as they composed newspaper reports, examined the original copy of the Proclamation and send Morse code to declare the Irish Republic by radio.

After the exhibition they got to visit the courtyard which is  home to a commissioned sculpture called ‘They are of us all’, commemorating the forty children who died during the Easter Rising.