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James Pearse (father of Padraig Pearse, barrister, poet,
writer, nationalist and political activist who was one
of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916), John Hogan
and Sir Thomas Farrell.
In an effort to deter body snatchers, "Sack-em-ups"
or "resurrectionists," Glasnevin was surrounded
by high medieval style walls with ten watchtowers overlooking
the grounds and surrounding area. Armed night watchmen
were hired, who became known as "Charlies."
At one point, Cuban Bloodhounds were used to patrol freely
around the site, but had to be dispensed of because they
were unable to tell friend from foe.
The passing of the Anatomy Act of 1832 saw the decrease
in illegally obtained cadavers. The Murder Act of 1752
stipulated that only the bodies of executed murders could
be used for dissection, but the passing of the new Act
required that anyone intending to practice anatomy must
obtain a license from the Home Secretary. The Act, provided
for the needs of physicians, surgeons and students by
giving them legal access to corpses that were unclaimed
after death, in particular those who died in prison or
the workhouse. Further, a person could donate their next
of kin's corpse in exchange for burial at the expense
of the donee.
Glasnevin Cemetery is the setting for the "Hades"
episode in James Joyce's Ulysses.
Use this map to locate some Ireland's most notorious
writers, patriots and philanthropists.
1. Daniel O'Connell - Politician, known as
the Liberator and the Emancipator.
2. Cardinal MacCabe - Opponent to political
change.
3. Charles Stewart Parnell - Irish Protestant
landowner, nationalist political leader, land reform
agitator, Home Rule MP in the Parliament of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and founder and
leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party.
4. Gerald Manley Hopkins - an English poet,
Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose 20th
century fame established him posthumously among the
leading Victorian poets.
5. Éamon de Velara - born George De Valero,
became a revolutionary, politician and second President
of Ireland. Had a leading role in the authorship of
the present-day Constitution of Ireland.
6. Frank Ryan - a prominent member of the Irish
Republican Army, editor of An Phoblacht, leftist activist
and leader of Irish volunteers on the Republican side
in the Spanish Civil War.
7. James Larkin - Trade unionist and socialist
activist from a Liverpool-Irish background.
8. Republican Plot
a) Maud Gonne MacBride
- an English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist and
actress, best remembered for her turbulent relationship
with . Of Anglo-Irish stock and birth,
she was won over to Irish nationalism by the plight
of evicted people in the Land Wars. She was also active
in Home Rule activities.
b) Cathal Brugha
- born Charles William St. John Burgess, was an Irish
revolutionary, active in the Easter Rising, Irish
War of Independence, and the Irish Civil War and was
the first Ceann Comhairle, sole judge of order, of
Dáil Éireann.
c) Countess Markiewicz
- Constance Georgine Markiewicz - an Irish Sinn Féin
and Fianna Fáil politician, revolutionary nationalist
and suffragette, the first woman elected to the British
House of Commons, though she did not take her seat
and along with the other Sinn Féin TDs formed the
first Dáil Éireann, was also the first woman in Europe
to hold a cabinet position (Minister of Labour of
the Irish Republic, 1919–1922).
d) Jeremiah O'Donovan
Rossa - Grocer during the Famine turned patriot
after 1858, an Irish Fenian leader and prominent member
of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. His life as an
Irish fenian is well documented but is perhaps known
best in death for the graveside oration given at his
funeral by Padraig Pearse.
9. Alfred Chester Beatty - a mining magnate
and millionaire, often called the "King of Copper".
American born, was naturalized British in 1933, made
an honorary citizen of Ireland in 1957. A collector
of Oriental art and books, he bequeathed the Chester
Beatty Biblical Papyri to the British Museum and the
Chester Beatty Library to Dublin, Ireland.
10. Anne Devlin - an Irish Republican who acted
as housekeeper to Robert Emmet, also cousin to two
leading United Irish rebels, Michael Dwyer and Arthur
Devlin.
11. John Keegan Casey - known as the Poet of
the Fenians, was an Irish poet, orator, novelist and
Republican who was famous as the writer of the song
The Rising of the Moon and as one of the central figures
in the Fenian Rising of 1867.
12. Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington - a suffragette
and Irish nationalist, daughter of David Sheehy, an
ex-Fenian and Irish Parliamentary Party Westminster
MP.
13. Brendan Behan - an Irish poet, short story
writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both
Irish and English. He was also a committed Irish Republican
and a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army.
14. Frank Duff - best known for bringing attention
to the role of the laity during the Second Vatican
Council of the Roman Catholic Church, and for founding
the Legion of Mary.
15. Michael Collins - an Irish revolutionary
leader, Minister for Finance in the First Dáil of
1919, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, member
of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty
negotiations, was both Chairman of the Provisional
Government and Commander-in-chief of the National
Army.
16. Roger Casement - born Roger David Casement,
was an Irish patriot, poet, revolutionary and nationalist,
was stripped of his British honors on his execution
for treason in 1916.
Also, take some time so find the graves
of these folks —
1. The Ten IRA Volunteers, aka the Forgotten Ten
- were tried and sentenced to death by Military Court
Martial in 1920/1921. Were originally buried at Mountjoy
Prison, but after eighty years of campaigning, the
men were re-interred at Glasnevin Cemetery following
a state funeral service on 14 October 2001:
a) Kevin Barry - was sentenced to death
for his part in an IRA operation which resulted
in the deaths of three British soldiers. His execution
outraged public opinion in Ireland and throughout
the world, particularly because of his young age...18!
The last of the ten to be executed on 1 November,
1921
b) Thomas Bryan(*) - arrested after the aborted
Drumcondra ambush, when an attack on an RIC barracks
was thwarted due to the activity of an informer.
He was sentenced to death and hanged on March 14,
1921 along with six other men(*)
c) Patrick Doyle(*) - one of six men hanged
at Kilmainham in 1921 during a spate of violent
operations by Crown Forces
d) Frank Flood - born Francis Xavier Flood,
1st Lieutenant in the Dublin Active Service Brigade
during the Irish War of Independence
e) Patrick Moran(*) - greengrocer and member
of the IRA executed in Mountjoy Prison
f) Thomas Whelan(*) - member of the Irish
Volunteers 'A' Company, 3rd Battalion, Dublin Brigade,
executed in Mountjoy Prison
g) Bernard Ryan(*) - member of the IRA and
part of the Dublin Brigade's Active Service Unit,
executed in Mountjoy Prison
h) Thomas Traynor(*) - member of the IRA
hanged in Mountjoy Prison
i) Edmond Foley - member of the IRA who was
hanged in Mountjoy Prison on 7 June 1921
j) Patrick Maher - member of the Irish Republican
Army executed in Mountjoy Prison on 7 June 1921.
**In accordance with his wishes and those of his
family he is buried at Ballylanders, Co. Limerick
2. John Keegan - born John Keegan 'Leo' Casey,
"Poet to the Fenians," an Irish poet, orator,
novelist and Republican who was famous as the writer
of the song The Rising of the Moon and as one of the
central figures in the Fenian Rising of 1867.
3. Christy Brown - was an Irish author, painter
and poet who had severe cerebral palsy. He is most
famous for his autobiography My Left Foot, which was
later made into an Academy Award-winning film of the
same name. September 7, 1981.
4. Sean T. O'Kelly - founding member of Sinn
Fein, staff captain to Pearse in the GPO in 1916,
Sinn Fein TD in Dublin, third Ceann Comhairle, founding
member of Fianna Fail in 1926, served two terms as
President of Ireland in 1945-1959.
5. Harry Boland - an Irish nationalist, member
Irish Republican Brotherhood, joined the Irish Volunteers
and took an active part in the events of the Easter
Rising in 1916. Operated alongside Michael Collins
in the Irish War of Independence. Was shot by members
of the Free State National Army at the Skerries Grand
Hotel on 31 July 1921.
6. Cholera Victims plot - 11, 357 deaths resulted
in 1840, the greatest number of interments in any
one year are buried here.
7. John O'Donovan - recognized as one of Ireland's
greatest Irish scholars and first historic topographer,
also recorded 62,000 Irish place names and a mass
of other historical data, translated the Annals of
the Four Masters. Credited with created new interest
in all things Gaelic in the Gaelic revival period.
8. John Philpott Curran - defender of Wolfe
Tone and other nationalists, Irish language enthusiast,
Protestant supporter of Catholic Emancipation.
9. 1916 Plot - mass grave of rank and file
members of the Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army
who were killed during the Easter Rising in 1916.
10. Luke Kelly - singer, member of the group
The Dubliners.
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Daniel O'Connell
Arthur Griffiths
Boland family vault
Harry Boland
Roger Casement
Edward Duffy
Wall and tower
Jesus and the three Marys
The Forgotten Ten
Angel headstone
Meade family tomb
Lardner plot
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