New animated film on 1916 tells of 14-year-old soldier in Michael Collins’ assassination unit

One of the young men in Michael Collins’ assassination and counter-intelligence unit has become a voice from the grave in a new animated film telling the story of being a 14-year-old soldier in the Easter Rising.

Film-makers created foot-tall puppets and miniature sets of Dublin’s GPO and St Stephen’s Green to depict Vinny Byrne’s role alongside 1916 rebel leader Thomas MacDonagh in the Jacob’s biscuit factory.

A Terrible Hullabaloo uses documentary recordings from 1980 when, aged 78, the former teenage Irish Volunteer recalls the dramatic events and his role in the revolution.