Little Eugene finally gets a headstone, over 100 years since death in Rising

More than a century on, a headstone will be placed on Friday on the previously unmarked grave of one of the 40 children killed during the 1916 Rising.

Eugene Lynch was eight when he died from “the effects of a bullet wound” after being shot by a soldier.

RTÉ’s Joe Duffy, the author of Children of the Rising, traced the details of Eugene’s death as part of his continuing research into the 40 children killed during Easter Week of 1916.