Duffy, Joe.

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

Dublin, Hachette Books Ireland, 2015. 25 cm. xxiii, 263 pages with illustrations throughout the publication. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

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.

• Keywords: Casualties · Catalogue Irish History Six – General Irish History · Catalogue Irish History Three – From Famine to Free State · Children · Children and Death · Collection Tadhg Ó Murchú (This is a book from his personal reference library) · Easter Rising, 1916 · From the library of Tadgh Ó Murchu · History · History of Irish Politics · Ireland · Irish Biographies · Irish Biography · Irish History · Irish Political History · Irish Politics
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9781473617056
• Inventory Number: 101051AB

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