When the shooting had stopped, John Scott left his house on Fitzroy Avenue across the road from Croke Park and went looking for his son, John William. He was directed to Mrs Colman’s house on St James’s Avenue on the other side of the ground. She told him his son’s body had already been taken to the Mater hospital. She explained how he had been carried to her house with a terrible chest wound caused by a ricocheted bullet and placed on the table.

Everyone in the house said prayers for him. He whispered some responses and asked for his mother. He needed water but no one could safely get out to the yard and fetch some. He held on for 45 minutes, she said. Then he died.

But how could she be sure the dead boy was John William, John Scott asked her. She placed in his hand his glasses and tie pin. He was buried in Glasnevin cemetery, aged 14.