STUDENTS from Coláiste Chiaráin in Croom have been honoured for their movie-making skills through an educational and entertaining project revealing the impact of the 1913 lockout on contemporary society.
The County Limerick post-primary school won the ‘Best Overall Video’ award at the inaugural Irish Congress of Trade Unions’ annual Youth for Decent Work Video Awards. The award was presented last week at a special screening in Dublin’s Savoy Cinema by ‘Love/Hate’ star Aaron Heffernan who plays Detective Inspector Gavin Brogan in the hit series.
As part of their prize, Coláiste Chiaráin students Tiernan O’Rourke, Aoife Lennon, Eoin Hayes, Adam Hannon, Christina Enright and Bryan Lynch will travel to New York on a five-day education trip with their teacher Conor Power.
In addition to winning the Best Overall Video award, Coláiste Chiaráin also won the ‘Best Acting’ category.
The Video Awards were launched as a module in the Working World series commemorating 1913 and students were invited to create a three-minute collaborative group video containing three key learning outcomes on their research of the events of the Dublin Lockout.
“The competition is not just about winning but learning along the way about Irish labour history and the struggle for Decent Work. The aim of the competition is to create a space and a creative outlet for students to identify what is important about what they have learned, find a way to express that creatively within a group, work collaboratively and develop skills to create a video, which is both educational and entertaining in terms of showing the impact of 1913 on our world today.”
She said that the students also got to experience and learn about scripting, shooting, designing graphics/animation and video editing.
