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This page allows you to filter all the information contained in the country factsheet by themes and countries.
For instance, if you wish to have specific details about the recognition of the Roma Holocaust in any specific country, you can easily access this information by selecting the theme and the country.
Teaching about the Roma Genocide
Inclusion of the topic in the school curriculum
The national education curriculum does not specifically include teaching on the Holocaust or the Roma Genocide. The Irish Department of Education and Skills does not produce or approve textbooks, nor does it specifically prescribe the content of citizenship, history or other classes. Schools are encouraged and provided with the scope to examine issues such as the Holocaust. Students are also able to learn about the Holocaust in other subject areas, including citizenship education and historical studies.
Inclusion of the topic in the school textbooks
Training of teachers and education professionals
The HETI offers a teacher training programme. Still it does not specifically deal with the Roma Genocide.
Particular activities undertaken at the level of education institutions
The Crocus project is an Irish initiative whereby HETI provides yellow Crocus bulbs for school pupils aged 11 years and older to plant in memory of the 1.5 million Jewish children who perished in the Holocaust and thousands of other children who were victims of Nazi atrocities. In this project, Roma victims are evoked but the focus remains on the Jewish Holocaust. Since its inception in 2005, participation in the project has grown from 6,000 students in Ireland to more than 45,000 students in Ireland and in several other OSCE participating States.