Glasnevin Cemetery
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Glasnevin Cemetery is the main Catholic cemetery in Dublin, the capital of Ireland.
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Glasnevin Cemetery
The round tower (centre) stands over the tomb of Daniel O'ConnellImage:Devgrave.jpg
Eamon de Valera's grave
His wife, Sinéad, and son, Brian (who was killed in a horse-riding accident in 1936) are buried there also.
A close up view of the gravestone
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Monument to Ireland's war dead in World War I
The monument lists those buried in the cemetery who were killed in Irish Regiments of the British Army during the First World WarImage:Crossglasnevin.jpg
Glasnevin gravestones
The picture shows a mid nineteenth century plain gravestone (centre) surrounded by versions of celtic crosses, which became the fashion in the late nineteenth century.
Glasnevin Cemetery
The round tower (centre) stands over the tomb of Daniel O'ConnellImage:Devgrave.jpg
Eamon de Valera's grave
His wife, Sinéad, and son, Brian (who was killed in a horse-riding accident in 1936) are buried there also.
A close up view of the gravestone
Image:Glasww1.jpg
Monument to Ireland's war dead in World War I
The monument lists those buried in the cemetery who were killed in Irish Regiments of the British Army during the First World WarImage:Crossglasnevin.jpg
Glasnevin gravestones
The picture shows a 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 all of Ireland's most prominent heroes - Charles Stewart Parnell and Daniel O'Connell as well as Michael Collins, Eamon de Valera 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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Notable people buried 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 prison grounds to Glasnevin in the early 21st century, having been accorded a state funeral.)
- Pearas Beaslai - Easter Rising survivor turned writer
- Brendan Behan - author and playwright
- Harry Boland - friend of Michael Collins and anti-Treaty politician. Image of Harry Boland's grave<ref>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.</ref>
- Christy Brown - writer (subject of the film My Left Foot)
- 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.
- James Daly - executed for his part in the Connaught Rangers mutiny in India in 1920
- William Dargan - Ireland's rail pioneer
- Éamon de Valera - 3rd President of Ireland (1959-1973) and dominant leader of 20th century.
- Anne Devlin - famed housekeeper of Robert Emmet
- John Devoy - Fenian leader. Image of John Devoy's grave.
- 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 Dail Eireann (January - August 1922).
- Tim Healy - 1st Governor-General of the Irish Free State. image of Tim Healy's grave.
- Gerard Manley Hopkins - poet
- Peadar Kearney - composer of the Irish National Anthem, Amhrán na bhFiann
- James Larkin - Irish trade union leader and founder of the Irish Transport & General Workers Union (ITGWU).
- 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.
- 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.
- Kate O'Brien - writer & publisher.
- 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
- Sean T. O'Kelly - 2nd President of Ireland (1945-1959).
- Charles Stewart Parnell - dominant Irish political leader from 1875 to 1891.
- Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa - Fenian leader. O'Donovan Rossa's grave. Patrick Pearse's speech at his funeral in 1915 has gone down in history.
- Patrick ( P J ) Ruttledge - Minister in Eamon de Valera's early governments.
- Daniel D. Sheehan - first independent Irish labour MP.
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Footnotes
<references/>de:Glasnevin Cemetery ja:グラスネヴィン・セメタリー