Life during the Covid-19 pandemic has been like “the world’s most boring apocalypse movie ever”, according to a one child’s account of their experience. The accounts are part of an online exhibition from the Library of Trinity College Dublin of children’s drawings, poems, diaries and stories about life during lockdown. One of the children said what they had come to realise was that going to a Penney’s store every week “is NON-ESSENTIAL. Most of the work was submitted last summer, when it appeared restrictions were coming to an end. Dr Jane Maxwell, who led the research, said it is “notoriously difficult to ensure that children’s own voices are preserved through time in the historical record”.

Source: The Irish Times March 12, 2021 14:26 UTC