St Mary’s Secondary School, Newport.
Art by Shane Gavin: I Heard of a Night I have heard of a night, That was filled with such a beautiful sight It was a place where everything was nothing, And there, everyone felt like something It was…
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Patrician High School, Carrickmacross.
Art By Christina O’Donovan: Acceptance No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish, The struggle of the land of the free. No Jews, No Gypsies, No Disabled, The struggle of the Third Reich. No Women, No Gays, No Bastards, The struggle…
St Joseph’s C.B.S, Nenagh.
Art by Jessica Rooney Deane: Road To Sanctuary A blackened shell pierces the ground, People fleeing, away from the sound; Soil and residents both are thrust from the earth; Taken as easily through death as they were birth. Feet…
Mean Scoil Nua an Leith Triuigh, Castlegregory.
Art By Lynn MacPherson: Sleep Sleep is the opposite of my alarm clock. Sleep can’t be scheduled to happen at a certain time. Sleep doesn’t have an optimistic tune, But instead a bellowing silence that sends me spiraling. A…
Ardgillan Community College, Co. Dublin.
Art by Pat Byrne Safe and Sound I reminisce on what I’ve said, Before dropping my head and heading to bed. I lay and dream safe and sound, Knowing tomorrow is to bed bound. Cherry blossoms falling on a…
Colaiste Cois Siuire, Co Kilkenny.
Artwork by Barry Quinn Fields Of War In the fields of war where guns fire and men fall The final soldier will be the one standing tall And will go down as the one who saved them all Until…