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Dublin City Council launches 3D Virtual Reality Website

An tArdmhéara Críona Ní Dhálaigh will launch The City and the Rising, a technically innovative new interactive website, at the Mansion House, Dawson Street, Dublin 2, on Tuesday, 26th April, 2016 at 12 noon. This unique website takes the user along the streets of Dublin City before, during and after the 1916 Rising.

The City and the Rising will guide the viewer through the city during the Rising while discovering key events as they unfold.  Through the use of innovative technologies the website offers a graphic insight into how the city’s buildings and streets played a pivotal role in the planning, execution and legacy of the event that was to lead to the creation of the Irish Republic.

“The aim of the The City and the Rising website is to offer an online experience that is visually striking, emotionally engaging and highly memorable; one that will thrill, captivate and inspire audiences, young and old alike. The oculus headset really lets you step back in time to the Dublin of 1916. Siúil siar sa stair, ar shráideanna na cathrach mar a bhí siad le linn an Éirí Amach. It’s not just a learning experience its “edutainment”!  said the Lord Mayor.

The website brings you a specially-created interactive map featuring images, text and videos.  The map lets you explore the Dublin of 1916 and inspect sites such as the GPO, Liberty Hall, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin Castle and many other locations where the events that influenced the course of the Rising took place.

The website can be found at www.dublincityrising.com

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