Irish kids get first-person view of 1916 uprising... via Minecraft

Irish schoolchildren will no longer have to experience the Republic’s blood and fire birth through grainy black-and-white pics and film reels - they can experience it through the full colour lumpenly pixelated reality of Minecraft instead. The Mindrising project is providing teaching materials to help Irish teachers, and other …

[Ralph B]

Bricks

Well, I guess if anything could be simulated by throwing a lot of bricks at a problem then ...

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Scale vs Detail

As someone who spent 10 hours building seawall/battlements last night on the family Minecraft server and still have so_much_to_do, looking at the detail of the Mindrising project is incredible...

I like it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't do Minecraft kids, it's got Microsoft in it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Next up!

Using Age of Empires to simulate William Wallace's and Robert the Bruce's campaigns?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Next up!

With The Forgotten HD expansion!

[Hatless Pemberty]

Kashmir

I don't know anything about minecraft or Irish schoolchildren (I swear) but for a moment there I thought that was a Led Zeppelin album cover.

Bloody digital media!

[x 7]

" they were related to every Irish citizen alive today."

look, we know the Irish historically were heavily related by incest, but do you have to rub it in?

[Owen Sweeney]

Incest...

It happened after the English invaded.

[x 7]

Re: Incest...

"Incest...

It happened after the English invaded."

typical....we get the blame for everything