Ireland pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai

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00:00Expo 2020 Dubai is a very important opportunity to engage firstly with our friends here in the UAE

00:10but also of course with the great global audience that will be part of Expo 2020. This was something

00:15that was always going to be extremely important for us but in the world that we live in today as

00:20we hopefully come out of pandemic and into better times the chance to re-engage with the world

00:28from this great international hub this great city that is Dubai is something that we were

00:32determined not to miss and we are very much looking forward to engaging in a very positive

00:39a very active way. For us international solidarity is very much the theme of the moment we very much

00:47see this as an opportunity to ensure that the conversations around sustainable economic

00:54recovery this is going to be a tremendous venue coming at a really important time so for us this

01:01is a huge priority. Our theme for the pavilion is very much Ireland the island of inspiration

01:06and this evokes the great Irish tradition of creativity. We will be bringing our visitors

01:13right up to date with modern developments whether in terms of technology allowing them an opportunity

01:19to see Irish creativity in the arts in crafts in food and fashion and so on so it's for us it's

01:25this is a wonderful platform in order to reach a very important audience. What we are reminding

01:33everybody is that our journey of creativity began a very long time ago that our ancestors even 5,000

01:40years ago were doing some wonderful things in terms of looking at the sun and enjoying inspiration

01:47and enjoying learning from that and that tradition is very much part of our DNA it's very much part

01:53of what Ireland is and what Irish people have to offer so we hope that our oculus and that very

02:00interesting design that we have on our pavilion will evoke that and that's something that we are

02:04we're particularly proud of. We were very conscious in designing the pavilion which was done by Irish

02:09architects that we wanted to very much present a fusion a combination of the Irish and the Arab

02:15tradition and so as we talked about the the oculus and the evoking our great historical

02:22sites we were also very conscious that from the Arab point of view the cloistered garden is itself

02:29something that evokes a very strong Arab tradition. These in many ways symbolize represent that

02:38sense of friendship and openness and understanding which marks the relations between the Irish and

02:44the Arab worlds.

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