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[[File:Just a pussy cat (6174143285).jpg|thumb|Charlie Flood, son of Christopher Flood, two longtime Dublin Zoo employees, with a lion cub c. 1936]]
[[File:Squirrel sculpture marking 150th anniversary of Dublin Zoo.jpg|thumb|Squirrel sculpture marking 150th anniversary of Dublin Zoo in 1980, unveiled by [[Patrick Hillery|President Patrick Hillery]].]]
Christopher's son Jack stayed in the zoo during the 1916 Easter Rising to care for the animals with two other young keepers, dealing with food shortages for the animals amongst other problems. He died shortly after from the Spanish flu in his twenties.
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