In the final week of March 2023 the National Museum of Ireland (NMI) will host a series of Young People's Assemblies, where students from schools across Ireland will present their 'Manifestos for a Future Ireland', in the context of a socially engaged artwork devised by Decade of Centenaries artist-in-residence Anthony Haughey.
Students from Scoil Mhuire Ennistymon, Co Clare, St Attracta’s Community College, Co Sligo, Oldbawn Community School, Tallaght, Coláiste Feirste, Belfast and Castletroy College, Limerick will engage in a series of Assemblies to present the outcomes of their workshops with artist Anthony Haughey. Each assembly will be addressed by historians and cultural commentators including writer and comedian Martin Beanz Warde, historian Dr Síobhra Aiken, Queens University Belfast, and Dublin City Council historian-in-residence Dr Cormac Moore.
The Assemblies will take place in the Ceramics Room at the National Museum of Ireland, Archaeology, Kildare Street over three days from 29th – 31st March 2023. The Ceramics Room has a resonance for the project in that the Seanad sat here between 2017 and 2019 while the Seanad Chambers in Leinster House were refurbished. An Assembly table designed by the artist will seat– 20 Assembly members for each session.
Video documentation and interviews with assembly members and Assembly Manifestos will form the basis of an art installation which will open in the Museum later in the year.
The National Museum of Ireland’s Artist in Residency with artist Anthony Haughey, is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media as part of the Decade of Centenaries Programme 2012-2023.
Learn more about the artist in residence at the National Museum of Ireland- Anthony Haughey here-