Buried treasures

WHAT will Dublin be like in the year 2030? Lord Mayor of Dublin Oisín Quinn put that question to primary school children last year through Dublin City Council’s schools’ Classmate magazine.

The Lord Mayor asked all 2nd, 3rd and 4th class students in Dublin schools to get their imaginations working and send him their ideas of what they think the capital will be like in the year 2030, through a drawing, poem or short story.

A total of 135 entries were received from primary schools and digitised versions were buried in a Time Capsule in the garden of the Lord Mayor’s official residence, the Mansion House, last week.

Around 100 pupils from St Brigid’s Convent National School, Killester and St Louis SPS, Rathmines, helped the Lord Mayor bury the Time Capsule. It is planned to re-open the capsule in 2030 when many of these students will have completed their education.

The Lord Mayor said:

“Dublin has changed so much over the past 1,000 years. It has grown from a small Viking settlement along the Liffey, to a medieval walled town, to the modern European city it is today. What will Dublin be like in 2030?

“The children came up with some really imaginative ideas and it will be interesting to come back in 2030 and see just how accurate they were!

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Some of the best entries have been selected to be part of an exhibition which will be displayed in Raheny and Rathmines libraries in the near future.