Aged 16 at the time of the shooting, he was acquitted of her murder and of attempting to murder soldiers, and of IRA membership. One of the few republicans and later prominent Sinn Fein personalities to have admitted to a war crime in Northern Ireland is well-known Derry republican and Irish language activist, former chairperson of Northern Sinn Fein, former Mayor of the city and former member of the Policing Board, Gerry O’Hara/Gearoid O’hEara. On 18.05.73, fourteen-year-old Eileen Mackin was ‘killed in action’ and is recorded on a Cumann na mBan mural on the Ballymurphy Road.

He was questioned about Scots Guardsman Alan Daughtery (23, married, 2 children), KIA by PIRA, December 31, 1973. . on their way to school.”. Please, The subscription details associated with this account need to be updated. ‘An 18-year-old youth was charged with her murder. A social will follow at the Rambling House at 4292 Katonah Avenue, with music by Mary Courtney and Patrick Madden.

Change ). This is a violent form of grooming and child abuse, not alone resulting in the deaths of children as outlined above, but also in burdening the consciences of very young people with acts of violence while many paramilitary leaders cynically kept themselves and their own family members far from any participation in the ‘armed struggle’. They were potential recruits [to the adult IRA]; they did scouting work, for instance . © Copyright 2020 Irish Studio LLC All rights reserved. Coronavirus live updates: R number in Rep of Ireland is now 0.7 - 0.9, How to make stovetop Irish potatoes with Kerrygold cheese and butter, COVID and Trump - taking stock as the election count continues, "Big celebrations" in Joe Biden's ancestral Co Mayo if he wins, Sinn Fein members resign over support funds. On 23.03.75, fifteen-year-old Robert Allsopp was killed by the accidental discharge of a gun at home in the New Lodge. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account.

Dougan was buried in an unmarked grave along with two other Irishmen who also perished at the time, but thanks to investigative work by a nephew back in Ireland and the assistance of prominent members of the local Irish American community, the site of his burial now features a tombstone with a Bible, Celtic Cross and some shamrocks. Patrick “Patsy” Dougan died alone in New York back in 1937 in the throes of the American Depression. O Dubhagain reported that his uncle spent seven years in New York and succumbed to pneumonia, a common form of death at the time due to poor, unsanitary living conditions. describes a number of the Troubles’ victims as killed by 16 year olds and in one case, a 14 year old (the following is not a complete list, just what I’ve come across after looking up particular entries):

Most particularly in the Belfast Brigade of the IRA, a decision was taken early on to enlist children into IRA activities as child soldiers, and most especially (but not exclusively) in ‘D’ company activities in the Ballymurphy area. The event is set for noon at Old Saint Raymond’s, and Sinn Fein West Belfast MP will be on hand to give a graveside oration.
The older volunteers in the IRA—they would have come out and done the shooting or whatever it was they were involved in.

Margaret Hearst, 24, p/t UDR and single mother with a 3-year-old child, murdered in her mobile home in the garden of her parents’ house by PIRA gunmen on October 8, 1977. O’Hara went on to express the hope that the young people in the room were going to finish the project to ‘roll back 800 years of colonial exploitation of this country’. He was then shot several times, one bullet striking his 82-year-old mother-in-law in the foot.’ (LL, p.142, #237) LL states that ‘it is believed republicans were behind the attack’ while Malcolm Sutton’s Index of Deaths accords responsibility to ‘Irish Republican Army (IRA)’

Child soldiers did not ‘give’ their  lives – their lives were taken from them when they were immature and vulnerable by the exploitation of the IRA organisation and by self-proclaimed adult leaders of Fianna na hÉireann like Gerry O’Hara.

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