Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

• acquire insights into the attitudes and actions of people in contemporary Ireland
• begin to develop some appreciation of the ‘mind-set’ of former generations
• develop a growing sense of personal, national, European and wider identities
• engage in simple studies of some of the more important aspects of periods in which political changes or movements have had an important influence on the lives of people in Ireland
• explore, discuss, compare and develop some simple understanding of the attitudes, beliefs, motivations and actions of differing individuals and groups of people in the past