23/12/09
Lifelines Exhibition in National Library, Dublin
Ahead of schedule and in time for Christmas, the Lifelines exhibition was finished and installed in the National Library of Ireland in Dublin yesterday! The exhibition commemorates the immense success of the Lifelines project, started by English teacher Niall MacMonagle and his Fifth Year pupils from Wesley College, Dublin in 1985.
The students wrote to famous people asking for their favourite poem and the reasons for their choice, compiling the responses into a book using an old Gestetner machine. They received hundreds of replies from people as diverse and renowned as Mother Theresa, Bertie Ahern, Graham Norton and Judi Dench. Published by Penguin and Town House, Lifelines raised over €100,000 for Concern by 2006 and has been dubbed the ‘best poetry anthology… ever’. We highly recommend a trip to Dublin to purchase a copy of the New & Collected Edition and check out the original letters from famous people on display.
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