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Joe Traynor

Joe Traynor

A man in a Volunteer uniform entered the room and stood to attention at the end of the bed and saluted. "There’s one man lying there," he said. "But there’s hundreds more would fall for him tonight."

His parents were from Tipperary

THE REMEMBERED

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William Robinson
The match was on 10 minutes when William heard the rumble of trucks behind the tree in which he sat.
He was the first victim of the massacre
Michael Feery
After the shooting stopped Michael struggled to the bridge outside, suffering from a severe wound to his thigh
For four days he lay in the morgue at Jervis Street hospital
James Matthews
His wife Kate sat in the Pro-Cathedral for his funeral with their daughters, expecting another baby.
James was shot in the leg and slid back down onto the bank
James Teehan
Caught in the crush leaving Croke Park, he died of heart failure aged 26.
He said goodbye to his brother as he left for Croke Park around 2.30pm
James Burke
James tried to escape when the firing started in Croke Park, but was caught in a terrible crush
His wife Annie had to identify his body
Joseph Traynor
He was shot twice in the back and slumped over a wall at the canal end of Croke Park.
Word reached his father around 5pm that Joseph had been hurt in the shootings
Tom Hogan
Tom died the Friday after Bloody Sunday, the last victim of the massacre.
A bullet in the shoulder resulted in his left arm being amputated.
Jerome O’Leary
When the shooting was at its worst, the officer in charge of the Black and Tans at Croke Park that day, directed a spectator to take Jerome’s body away.
He was shot in the head and killed
Patrick O’Dowd
Crowds streamed over the wall, and Patrick was shot as he helped people up.
He was buried in Glasnevin cemetery
John William Scott
He was buried in Glasnevin cemetery, aged 14.
He held on for 45 minutes, she said. Then he died.
Michael Hogan
When the shooting started at Croke Park, Michael Hogan from Grangemockler threw himself onto the pitch beside Frank Burke, the great Dublin forward he was tasked to mark.
“Mick Hogan is dead” he said. "Can we get a priest?"
Jane Boyle
On the morning of Bloody Sunday she went to Mass at St Kevin’s Church with James Byron, her fiancée, where they were due to be married later that week.
Jane was buried in her wedding gown
Thomas Ryan
He stopped and knelt beside the dying Michael Hogan, whispering an Act of Contrition in his ear. It was then he was shot in the back.
He crawled out of the ground before being taken to hospital
Daniel Carrol
He had escaped the ground when he was shot in the leg from a police lorry
“Wasn’t it misfortunate I went”