Rising’s heroes remembered by proud families

THE piano in Con O’Neill’s childhood home resonated with history even when its keys were quiet.

It was an engagement gift to his mother from a young man whose place in the annals was secured the day he entered Jacob’s Factory to fight with the rebels in the 1916 Rising.

Dick McKee survived the fighting only to be eventually executed by British forces in 1920, but his memory lives on in McKee Barracks in Dublin which was named in his honour.