One of the most powerful legacies of the Easter Rising of 1916 is the Proclamation of Independence. Its words have resonated through the years-but how relevant is a document drafted at the start of the twentieth century to Ireland in the twenty-first century? Ireland in 2016 will be a very different country than Ireland in 1916, but not everything will have changed. 2016 explores the relevance of the original proclamation to Ireland today and invites the reader to determine what they would want to proclaim for Ireland in the years ahead. It asks the question: if we had to write it, what would the 2016 Proclamation say?