Niamh's+Reflection

This process was by no means easy, yet I found everything exciting, new and rather enjoyable. As a bit of a history buff, most of the information was well-known to me, yet there was also so much new to learn. The tale of the six leaders is well-wrung at this stage, yet it was the common man whose story stood out the most in some of the additional items and in parts of my reference tool. As a fiction-lover, it is the narration of any events through ordinary people that brings it all alive**,** and this is a great part of the collection and collection process. 100 years later, the hardship, the deaths, the passion of the people involved in the 1916 Rising is just as present,just as raw as it was the next day when people read about it in the newspapers, but with one major change; the 'rebels' are no longer loath, no longer made out to be vandals. With this collection we don't just present the facts of the day, we also include the run-up, the background, the ideologies of those that took part and the very tragic consequences that changed the outlook of the people on the events of Easter 1916. A result of this experience is that I have gotten a reminder of why I am proud of my heritage**,** proud of the men and women that "dreamed and are dead" as Yeats put it.
 * Reflection:**

As part of this experience, I also learned how to search better. I learned how to use new tools fully such as wikispaces and had an interesting time looking at archival material in ucd library.The last and most important result of this project is the experience of working as part of this wonderful team. With seven members, at first we were worried we would not find a useful reference tool for everyone, yet we put our heads together and resolved this and every issue with our combined brainpower. Obstacles were to be expected, yet with a good team we could overcome these as they came along and collaborate to get the presentation and evaluation of the sources up to scratch. Due to the camaraderie among us, we could openly give constructive criticism on each part of the process, and work together while writing our policy and picking items for the collection.