Burials in Glasnevin Cemetery

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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 turned writer
• Sir Alfred Chester Beatty - art collector
• Brendan Behan - author and playwright
• Professor Thomas Bodkin - lawyer, art historian, art collector and curator
• 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
• Thomas Henry Burke - Permanent Under Secretary to Chief Secretary for Ireland Lord Frederick Cavendish, victim with his master of the Phoenix Park murders in 1882
• Sergeant James Byrne - Victoria Cross recipient (Indian Mutiny)
• Sir Roger Casement - human rights campaigner turned revolutionary, executed by the British in 1916 ² Image of Casement grave
• Robert Erskine Childers - Irish Nationalist and writer, executed by the Irish Free State government during the Irish Civil War. Erskine Childers' grave, located in the Republican Plot
• Mary "Molly" Alden Childers - Irish Nationalist and wife of Robert Erskine Childers
• J. J. Clancy - Irish Nationalist MP (1847-1928)
• Michael Collins - assassinated republican leader, Anglo-Irish Treaty signatory and 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
• Michael Cusack - founder of the Gaelic Athletic Association.
• William Dargan - Ireland's rail pioneer
• Charlotte Despard - suffragist
• Private Thomas Duffy - VC recipient (Indian Mutiny)
• Éamon de Valera - 3rd President of Ireland (1959-1973) and dominant Irish 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
• Edward Duffy - Irish Fenian, Irish Republican Brotherhood
• James Fitzmaurice - aviation pioneer
• Francis Gleeson - Chaplain to the British Army and the Irish Free State
• 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, famed beauty and mother of Nobel and Lenin Peace Prize winner Seán MacBride, who is also buried in the grave 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
• Luke Kelly - singer and folk musician, founding member of The Dubliners
• Kitty Kiernan - fiancée of Michael Collins
• James Larkin - Irish trade union leader and founder of the Irish Transport & General Workers Union (ITGWU)
• Josie MacAvin - Oscar- and Emmy-winning set decorator and art director
• Seán MacBride - founder of Clann na Poblachta and a founder-member of Amnesty International
• Edward MacCabe - late 19th century Cardinal Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland Image of the elaborate monument to Cardinal MacCabe.
• Dick McKee - 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 Markievicz - first woman elected to the British House of Commons and a minister in the first Irish government
• Manchester Martyrs - cenotaph honouring 3 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
• Lance Corporal James Murray - VC recipient (First Boer War)
• Dermot Morgan - Irish satirist and star of Father Ted. Cremated in Glasnevin and interred at Deansgrange Cemetery.
• Kate Cruise O'Brien - writer and publisher (This is not Kate O'Brien who is buried in Faversham Cemetery, England.)
• Daniel O'Connell - Irish political leader from 1820s to 1840s O'Connell's tomb under the specially built round tower O'Connell's tomb interior
• Patrick O'Donnell the Avenger - executed in 1883 in London for the assassination of the co-conspirator turncoat of the Phoenix Park murder, James Carey. A memorial in his honour stands in Glasnevin.
• Patrick Denis O'Donnell - 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
• Ernie O'Malley - anti-Treaty IRA leader during the Irish Civil War
• John O' Leary - poet
• James O'Mara - nationalist leader and member of the First Dáil
• Henry O'Neill - painter and archaeologist
• Christopher Palles, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, often described as "the greatest of Irish judges"
• 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
• Sergeant Philip Smith - VC recipient (Crimean War)
• Chief Boatswain's Mate John Sullivan - Royal Navy VC recipient (Crimean War)
• Patrick James Smyth - journalist and politician
• David P. Tyndall - prominent Irish businessman who transformed the grocery business
• William Joseph Walsh - Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin
• Billy Whelan - Manchester United footballer who died the Munich air disaster of 1958

Video Burials in Glasnevin Cemetery

References

Maps Burials in Glasnevin Cemetery

External links

• Glasnevin Cemetery
• Glasnevin Cemetery: famous names at Find a Grave
• Companion sites: irishgraves.com and deadireland.com
• Burial Records from Glasnevin Cemetery at Interment.net

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