Seán Heuston, a youthful face of the Easter Rising

Seán Heuston was the second youngest person to be executed in the Rising after claiming, to no avail, his name had been mis-spelt

Born in 1891, Seán Heuston was baptised John Joseph, and to his family he was always ‘Jack’. Like many young nationalists of his generation, he adopted the Irish version of his name, which is how he is remembered. And Heuston was young; the second youngest, after Edward (Ned) Daly, of those executed for their involvement in the Easter Rising.

A child of the Dublin tenements, he came from one of the humblest backgrounds of any of the 1916 leaders, and as late as 1911 his family still lived in the inner-city tenements (though his father was absent, having emigrated to London).