{"id":7896,"date":"2026-03-20T15:38:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/?p=7896"},"modified":"2026-03-20T15:38:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:38:40","slug":"portlaoise-prison-education-centre-impresses-with-homecoming-installation-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/portlaoise-prison-education-centre-impresses-with-homecoming-installation-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Portlaoise Prison Education Centre Impresses with Homecoming Installation Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Well done to Paula Grant, Shauna Busto Gilligan, Nettie Emerson and Sharon Grant from Portlaoise Prison Education Centre, LOETB who presented\u00a0<b>Reflections of Home through music, poetry and stonecraft: Homecoming Installation Project <\/b>at the Ahead Altitude Summit today. Their project received a tremendous response from attendees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The project began when the Education Unit in Portlaoise Prison was invited to contribute to the Laois Homecoming Festival, which took place across the county from 6\u20139 September 2025. This invitation sparked a year-long collaborative project involving students from the Music, Literacy and Stonecraft classes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Each student explored what the theme \u201cHome\u201d meant to them. Eight original pieces including poetry and music were accompanied by a stone window, made from recycled stone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The window created by the Stonecraft students is their visual interpretation of the songs composed by the Music Students and poems written by Literacy students. The Stonecraft students selected words that inspired them and carved them onto stone. This installation was exhibited at the Laois Homecoming festival with great success.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7896 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/portlaoise-prison-education-centre-impresses-with-homecoming-installation-project\/photo-2026-03-20-13-41-54\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PHOTO-2026-03-20-13-41-54-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/portlaoise-prison-education-centre-impresses-with-homecoming-installation-project\/photo-2026-03-20-13-41-54-2\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PHOTO-2026-03-20-13-41-54-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Four ladies standing in from of presentation with balloons each side of them\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/portlaoise-prison-education-centre-impresses-with-homecoming-installation-project\/photo-2026-03-20-13-41-54-1\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PHOTO-2026-03-20-13-41-54-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Reflections of Home stone window\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well done to Paula Grant, Shauna Busto Gilligan, Nettie Emerson and Sharon Grant from Portlaoise Prison Education Centre, LOETB who presented\u00a0Reflections of Home through music, poetry and stonecraft: Homecoming Installation Project at the Ahead Altitude Summit today. Their project received a tremendous response from attendees. The project began when the Education Unit in Portlaoise Prison [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,95],"tags":[38,96,46,97],"class_list":["post-7896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-further-education-and-training","category-prison-education","tag-fet","tag-further-education-and-training","tag-loetb","tag-portlaoise-prison"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7900,"href":"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896\/revisions\/7900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loetb.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}