Burials in Glasnevin Cemetery
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This is a list of notable people buried in Glasnevin Cemetery.
See also Category: Burials at 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.)
- Piaras Beaslai - Easter Rising survivor turned writer
- 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
- Christy Brown - writer of My Left Foot and subject of the film of the same name
- Father Francis Browne - Jesuit priest and photographer who took the last known photographs of RMS Titanic
- 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.
- J. J. Clancy - Irish Nationalist MP (1847-1928)
- Michael Collins - assassinated republican leader, Anglo-Irish Treaty signatory & first internationally recognised Irish head of government.
- Dáithí Ó Conaill - a founder member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
- Roddy Connolly - socialist politician and son of James Connolly.
- Andy Cooney - Irish republican
- John Philpot Curran - patriotic barrister, renowned wit, lawyer on behalf of Wolfe Tone and other United Irishmen, Sarah Curran's father.
- William Dargan - Ireland's rail pioneer
- Charlotte Despard
- Éamon de Valera - 3rd President of Ireland (1959-1973) and dominant leader of 20th century.
- Sinéad de Valera - wife of Éamon de Valera, buried in the same plot.
- Anne Devlin - famed housekeeper of Robert Emmet
- John Devoy - Fenian leader. Image of John Devoy's grave.
- John Blake Dillon - Irish writer and politician
- Martin Doherty IRA member
- Frank Duff - founder of the Legion of Mary
- James Fitzmaurice - aviation pioneer
- Edmund Dwyer Gray - Irish 19th century MP, son of Sir John Gray.
- Sir John Gray - Irish 19th century MP. Image of Sir John Gray's gravestone
- Maud Gonne - nationalist campaigner, love of W.B. Yeats's life, famed beauty and mother of Nobel & Lenin Peace Prize winner Seán MacBride, who is buried in the grave also. Image of Maud Gonne & Seán MacBride's grave
- Arthur Griffith - President of Dáil Éireann (January - August 1922).
- Joseph Patrick Haverty - Irish painter
- Tim Healy - 1st Governor-General of the Irish Free State. image of Tim Healy's grave.
- Denis Caulfield Heron - lawyer and politician
- Gerard Manley Hopkins - poet
- 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 MacCabe - late 19th century Archbishop of Dublin & Primate of Ireland. Image of the elaborate monument to Cardinal MacCabe.
- Dick McKee - prominent member of the Irish Republican Army during the War of Independence.
- Terence MacManus - Irish rebel and shipping agent.
- James Patrick Mahon - Irish nationalist politician and mercenary.
- Countess Constance Markiewicz - first woman elected to the British House of Commons and a minister in the first Irish government.
- Manchester Martyrs - gravestone honouring three members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood known in history as the Manchester Martyrs who were in fact buried in the grounds of a British prison following their execution by the British.
- Dermot Morgan - Irish satirist and star of Father Ted. He was cremated in Glasnevin but is buried in Deansgrange Cemetery.
- Kate Cruise O'Brien - writer & publisher. This is not Kate O'Brien who is buried in Faversham Cemetery.
- 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
- Patrick Denis O'Donnell - well-known Irish military historian, writer, and former UN peace-keeper.
- 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.
- Seán T. O'Kelly - 2nd President of Ireland (1945-1959).
- John O'Mahony - a founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
- John O' Leary (Fenian poet)[1]
- James O'Mara - nationalist leader and member of the First Dáil
- Henry O'Neill - painter and archaeologist.
- Charles Stewart Parnell - dominant Irish political leader from 1875 to 1891.
- Patrick (P.J.) Ruttledge - Minister in Éamon de Valera's early governments.
- Daniel D. Sheehan - first independent Irish labour MP.
- Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington - founder of Irish Women's Franchise League
- Patrick James Smyth Journalist and politician
- David P. Tyndall - prominent Irish businessman who transformed the grocery business
[edit] External links
- Glasnevin Cemetery Official Site
- Companion sites irishgraves.com and deadireland.com
- Burial Records from Glasnevin Cemetery Interment.net
[edit] References
- ^ Alan O'Day, ‘O'Leary, John (1830–1907)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006