Children of the Rising is the first ever account of the young lives violently lost during the week of the 1916 Rising.
Boys and girls, rich and poor, Catholic and 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 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. This book honours the lives of those young people who once called Dublin their home.