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Includes content from Vanishing Ireland, Easter Dawn, Dublin Docklands, The Irish Pub, Maxol and many more, as well as Waterways Ireland, the Past Tracks project and hundreds of historical articles on Irish families, houses, companies and events.

Seán Heuston (1891-1916) & the Easter Rising

Seán Heuston’s Volunteers held Dublin’s Mendicity Institution for about fifty hours during the 1916 Easter Rising. Explore his railway career, Fianna Éireann service and execution at Kilmainham Gaol aged twenty-five.