In a bilingual radio programme for schools from 1969, boys and girls from Saleen National School, Cork, give the results of the 1918 election and explain what took place in the Mansion House on 21 January 1919.

'The First Dáil' was a bilingual documentary for schools.In this extract the programme is introduced by Donncha Ó Dulaing. School teacher Gerry Moynihan and pupils of  Saleen National School, Cork, speaking in Irish and English give an account of the first meeting of the Dáíl.