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Children of the Rising: The untold story of the young lives lost during Easter 1916

By: Joe Duffy
Publisher: Hachette Ireland
Published: October 2015
Pages: 288
Categories: History
Language: English
Available as: Hardback
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ISBN-13: 9781473617056
ISBN: 1473617057
ASIN: 1473617057

Children of the Rising is the first ever account of the young lives violently lost during the week of the 1916 Rising: long-forgotten and never commemorated, until now. Boys, girls, rich, poor, Catholic, Protestant - no child was guaranteed immunity from the bullet and bomb that week, in a place where teeming tenement life existed side by side with immense wealth. Drawing on extensive original research, along with interviews with relatives, Joe Duffy creates a compelling picture of these forty lives, along with one of the cut and thrust of city life between the two canals a century ago. This gripping story of Dublin and its people in 1916 will add immeasurably to our understanding of the Easter Rising. Above all, it honours the forgotten lives, largely buried in unmarked graves, of those young people who once called Dublin their home.

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