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While primarily residential, Glasnevin is also home to the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin Cemetery, the National Meteorological Office, and a range of other state bodies, and Dublin City University has its main campus and other facilities in and near the area. Glasnevin is also a civil parish in the ancient barony of Coolock. [1]
The National Botanic Gardens (Irish: Garraithe Náisiúnta na Lus) is a botanical garden in Glasnevin, 5 km north-west of Dublin city centre, Ireland. [1] The 19.5 hectares [2] are situated between Glasnevin Cemetery and the River Tolka where it forms part of the river's floodplain.
Glasnevin Cemetery is the setting for the "Hades" episode in James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses, and is mentioned by Idris Davies in his poem Eire. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Shane MacThomais, the cemetery's historian, was the author and contributor to a number of published works on the cemetery, prior to his death in March 2014.
This is a list of notable people buried in Glasnevin Cemetery. Thomas Ashe – died on hunger strike in 1917; Kevin Barry – medical student executed for his role in the Irish War of Independence. (His body was moved from Mountjoy Prison to Glasnevin in 2001, having been accorded a state funeral.) Piaras Béaslaí – Easter Rising survivor ...