Co Kildare school creates song for Children of 1916

A Co Kildare school is commemorating the forty children who died during the Easter Rising in Dublin with a song.

The song, 'Angels of Sixteen', was created in collaboration with the Kildare singer/ song writer Mick Dunne, along with the teachers and pupils of Scoil Naomh Mhuire, Staplestown, Naas.

Broadcaster Joe Duffy's book Children of the Revolution inspired the Co Kildare school to compile a song.

Boys, girls, rich, poor, Catholic, Protestant - no child was guaranteed immunity from the bullet and bomb that week, in a place where teeming tenement life existed side by side with immense wealth.