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The cemetery was initially known as Prospect Cemetery, a name chosen from the townland of Prospect, which surrounded the cemetery lands. Besides the famous interred at Glasnevin, nearly 800,000 people have been buried in Glasnevin in unmarked mass graves due to the death toll from the Great Famine of the 1840s and a later cholera epidemic. [4]
Éamon de Valera's grave His wife Sinéad, son Brian, are also buried there. A close up view of the de Valera gravestone Charles Stewart Parnell's gravestone 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 Memorial to Patrick O'Donnell, Glasnevin ...
Kevin Barry monument in Rathvilly, County Carlow On 14 October 2001 the remains of Kevin Barry and nine other volunteers from the War of Independence were given a state funeral and moved from Mountjoy Prison to be re-interred at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. Barry's grave is the first on the left.
Éamon de Valera's grave in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. His wife, Sinéad, and son, Brian (who was killed in a horse-riding accident in 1936) are buried there also. Éamon de Valera died from pneumonia and heart failure in Linden Convalescent Home, Blackrock, Dublin, on 29 August 1975, aged 92. [120]
Glasnevin Cemetery has grown from its original nine to over 120 acres. The high wall with watch-towers surrounding the main part of the cemetery was built to deter bodysnatchers, who were active in Dublin in the 18th and early 19th century. The watchmen also had a pack of blood-hounds who roamed the cemetery at night.
The grave of nine of the Forgotten Ten in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin. The campaign to rebury the men dragged on for 80 years from their deaths. Following an intense period of negotiations, the Irish government relented. Plans to exhume the bodies of the 10 men were announced on 1 November 2000, the 80th anniversary of the execution of Kevin Barry.
The episode − which drew 11.4 million viewers Sunday night per data released by Paramount Network − featured a tear-filled funeral for Dutton, who was buried among his ancestors in the ...
O. Dáithí Ó Conaill; Tarlach Ó hUid; Kathleen O'Connell; Katherine O'Doherty; Séamus O'Doherty; Elizabeth O'Farrell; J. F. X. O'Brien; William O'Brien (trade unionist)