Glasnevin Cemetery
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Glasnevin Cemetery, also known as Prospect Cemetery, is the main Catholic cemetery in Dublin, the capital of Ireland.
Though a member of the Church of Ireland, Parnell was buried in Glasnevin in view of its status - at least in the eyes of those who followed him in politics - as the de facto national cemetery
The monument lists those buried in the cemetery who were killed in Irish Regiments of the British Army
Mid nineteenth century plain gravestone (centre) surrounded by versions of celtic crosses, which became the fashion in the late nineteenth century.
Established in the middle of the 19th century to replace the old burial grounds within the city, Glasnevin Cemetery contains many historically interesting monuments as well as the graves of many of Ireland's most prominent heroes - Charles Stewart Parnell and Daniel O'Connell as well as Michael Collins, Eamon de Valera, Kevin Barry and Constance Markiewicz a generation later.
The cemetery also offers a fascinating view of the changing style of death monuments in Ireland over the last 200 years; from the austere simple high stone erections of the period up until the 1860s, to the elaborate celtic crosses of the nationalistic revival from the 1860s to 1960s, to the plain Italian marble of the late twentieth century.
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[edit] Notable people buried in Glasnevin Cemetery
See also Category: Burials in Glasnevin Cemetery
- Thomas Ashe - died on hunger strike in 1917
- Kevin Barry - a medical student executed by the British for his role in the Irish War of Independence. (His body was moved from Mountjoy Prison to Glasnevin in October 2001, having been accorded a state funeral.)
- Sir Alfred Chester Beatty - art collector
- Brendan Behan - author and playwright
- Harry Boland - friend of Michael Collins and anti-Treaty politician. Image of Harry Boland's grave[1]
- Christy Brown - writer of My Left Foot and subject of the film of the same name
- Cathal Brugha - first President of Dáil Éireann (January - April 1919) Image of Cathal Brugha's grave
- Sir Roger Casement - Human rights campaigner turned Irish revolutionary, executed by the British in 1916.2 Image of Casement grave
- Robert Erskine Childers - Irish republican and Treaty signatory executed by the Irish Free State government during the Irish Civil War. Erskine Childers' grave, located in the Republican Plot.
- Michael Collins - assassinated republican leader, Anglo-Irish Treaty signatory & first internationally recognised Irish head of government.
- Éamon de Valera - 3rd President of Ireland (1959-1973) and dominant leader of 20th century.
- John Devoy - Fenian leader. Image of John Devoy's grave.
- John Blake Dillon - Irish writer and politician
- Frank Duff - founder of the Legion of Mary
- Sir John Grey - Irish 19th century MP. Image of Sir John Grey's gravestone
- Maud Gonne - nationalist campaigner, love of W.B. Yeats's life, famed beauty and mother of Nobel & Lenin Peace Prize winner Sean MacBride, who is buried in the grave also. Image of Maud Gonne & Sean MacBride's grave
- Arthur Griffith - President of Dáil Éireann (January - August 1922).
- Tim Healy - 1st Governor-General of the Irish Free State. image of Tim Healy's grave.
- Peadar Kearney - composer of the Irish National Anthem, Amhrán na bhFiann
- Kitty Kiernan - fiancée of Michael Collins
- James Larkin - Irish trade union leader and founder of the Irish Transport & General Workers Union (ITGWU).
- Seán MacBride - founder of Clann na Poblachta and a founder-member of Amnesty International.
- Edward Cardinal McCabe - late 19th century Archbishop of Dublin & Primate of Ireland. Image of the elaborate monument to Cardinal McCabe.
- Countess Constance Markiewicz - first woman elected to the British House of Commons and a minister in the first Irish government.
- Daniel O'Connell - dominant Irish political leader from 1820s to 1840s. O'Connell's tomb under the specially built round tower O'Connell's tomb interior
- Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa - Fenian leader. Patrick Pearse's oration at his funeral in 1915 has gone down in history.
- Eoin O'Duffy - Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army and leader of The Blueshirts.
- Thomas O'Hagan, 1st Baron O'Hagan - Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
- Kevin O'Higgins - assassinated Vice-President of the Executive Council.
- Sean T. O'Kelly - 2nd President of Ireland (1945-1959).
- John O'Mahony - a founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
- Charles Stewart Parnell - dominant Irish political leader from 1875 to 1891.
- Liam Whelan - Rep. of Ireland and Man Utd soccer player killed in the 1958 Munich Air Disaster.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Glasnevin Cemetery Official Site
- Companion sites irishgraves.com and deadireland.com
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Harry Boland's death features in the film Michael Collins made by Neil Jordan. In reality the manner of his death bore little relationship to the account portrayed in the film.
