Irish broadcaster Joe Duffy has published the first ever comprehensive list of children killed during the 1916 Easter Rising and is asking relatives of the victims to contact him as he wants to gather more information about their lives.
"There were 30 children killed during the week of the Easter Rising. Most of them were killed in crossfire; most of them were killed within a mile radius of O'Connell Street.
"There were two two-year-olds killed on Easter Monday, one of them was in his pram," Duffy told the Herald.
"I'm publishing a booklet with as much as I can find on each child. They were children, they had no direct descendants."
The RTE presenter decided to research the subject after the Jack & Jill Foundation, a children's charity, asked him to get take part in its public art project. He was given a glass Easter egg to paint and decided to print the names of the killed children.
"I expected to pick up a history book and read it but there was no full list," he said.
Of the 450 people killed during those six days, 260 were civilians including the 30 children.
"We've never had a commemoration of the children who died in the Rising."
Duffy hopes to publish his booklet "Children of the Revolution next week. He is asking the public to contact him with any information on the children at joe@rte.ie.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.seanomelb | Feb 27, 2013, 06:05 PM EST
Deary me!! their are one or two ignorant drones posting below
curtisjohnson | Feb 26, 2013, 09:12 PM EST
They were killed by the british terror state, dumbass.
anglo-norman | Feb 26, 2013, 10:06 AM EST
The Irish must have their myths disspelled for them. Kudos to Duffy for this. Pearse used a little girl as cover to surrender to the british, how cowardly was that!!!
merefalow | Feb 25, 2013, 04:48 PM EST
yes,show them all,all the innocents of all the wars,all the women and children,all the ruined lifes,the true cost of militarism, money,colonial conquest and fat cat politicoes, ,industrialists,greedy entreprenours,the arms manufacturers,not the bloody flags and medals and john wayne crap.
ReturnedYank | Feb 25, 2013, 12:26 PM EST
@WoundedKnee You are correct. This is typical RTE propaganda and a fairly common attitude in the South Dublin media. Recently I heard Pat "the plank" Kenny describe the War of Independence as a "terrorist war." I don't understand their urge to denigrate everything done to win our independence.
WoundedKnee | Feb 25, 2013, 10:31 AM EST
Sources in Dublin tell me that this guy Duffy is a notorious right-winger and apologist for the British presence in Ireland, so he may well have a propagandistic purpose in doing this research.
curtisjohnson | Feb 24, 2013, 07:42 PM EST
Exactly, Seanmor. The british terror state has an appalling history of targeting children for all manner of atrocities.
Seanmor | Feb 24, 2013, 07:17 PM EST
It would be interesting to find a list of all the children killed by plastic bullets in the Six Counties durint the 30 years of the 'Troubles". We know that 7 of the dead victims on Bloody Sunday were aged 17. About 6½ months later in July of '72, the 5 victims shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast included these children: John Dougal (16), Daniel Coffey (15) and Margaret Gargan (13). Irish media in all parts of the world ought to inform the readership about these young victims who had done nothing wrong.