Time capsule part of plans for centenary garden in Mullingar
The Tidy Towns would like to invite all who wish to submit something small into this time capsule to make contact with the sub-committee members before it is sealed this Thursday, March 30 at 5.30pm.
Jason McKevitt
What will best convey to the generation living 100 years from now a picture of how Mullingar is today?
If you have any ideas, there remain just a couple of days to have them included in a time capsule that is to be buried in the new 1916 Centenary Garden that is to be officially opened at Mullingar’s Green Bridge on Easter Monday.
The Green Bridge has been a hive of activity over recent weeks as Mullingar Tidy Towns prepares to erect a 1916 monument, as part of the state’s ‘Decade of Centenaries’ initiative.
The monument will honour those men and women from Mullingar, who not only served during the Easter Rising of 1916, but also served during the revolutionary years and subsequently until the Irish State was born.
A 1916 Sub-Committee was formed in late 2016, to look at ways in which the Mullingar people who served during that period could be best remembered in the Mullingar of today.
It is with this latter aspect that a time capsule has been placed beneath the monument which will allow those historians and archivists of 100+ years from now, to view how Mullingar people remembered the centenary events during this current decade of remembrance.
The Tidy Towns would like to invite all who wish to submit something small into this time capsule to make contact with the sub-committee members before it is sealed this Thursday, March 30 at 5.30pm.
It is envisaged that this monument at the Green Bridge will be completed before Easter Monday when it will be officially opened with a remembrance ceremony at noon.
The 1916 Sub-Committee of Mullingar Tidy Towns would like to issue an open invitation to everybody from the Mullingar area, to attend this poignant ceremony on Easter Monday and especially to the descendants of those great men and women who served Ireland when she needed them most.
Although we are at an early stage of planning for the Easter Monday ceremony, be advised that it will be a day to remember for all those who attend.
1916 Sub-Committee Mullingar Tidy Towns: Cllr Bill Collentine (chairman, Mullingar Tidy Towns), Anita Kennedy (Administrator, Mullingar Tidy Towns), Eamonn McGowan, Tomas Nally, Ger O’Connor, Willy Collentine and Jason McKevitt (local historian).