90th commemoration of 1916 youth committee

national | history and heritage | event notice Thursday October 06, 2005 13:43 by Connolly Youth Movement garethmurphy26 at hotmail dot com (01) 8747981

The Connolly Youth Movement is proposing progressive youth organise collectively to commemorate 1916.

A preliminary meeting to dicuss the idea will occur at 2pm on October 8th in the Teachers Club.

All interested parties welcome!

90th commemoration of 1916 youth committee

Hello!

Next April is the 90th anniversary of the 1916 rising. In recent times republicans, socialists and progressives have all come under increasing attack and condemnation for their views. Hand in hand with this has been the re-writing of our history, by politicians, journalists and academic historians who often have a less than benign agenda. The result is that the democratic, egalitarian and social character of 1916 has been distorted to support the current status quo.

The Connolly Youth Movement proposes that all republican, socialist and progressive youth groups come together for the 90th commemoration to organise events that highlight the events of 1916 and their significance. Our primary objective will be to raise the consciousness of young people in regards to the 1916 rising, in the hope they will question freedom, democracy, independence and sovereignty in Ireland today in light of the motives and politics of 1916. After all, these are very ideas on which modern Ireland is supposed to be founded. We propose that the campaign should be called "Rising Youth".

We will be holding a preliminary meeting on Saturday 8th October at 2pm in the Teachers Club. This meeting will be open to all interested parties. We hope to build a campaign that is as broad as possible and not dominated by any single organisation or subscribing to any single interpretation of republicanism.

Hope to see you there!