Burials in Glasnevin Cemetery

This is a list of notable people buried in Glasnevin Cemetery.

See also ""

* 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 Mountjoy Prison to Glasnevin in October 2001, having been accorded a state funeral.)
* Piaras Beaslai - Easter Rising survivor turned writer
* Sir Alfred Chester Beatty - art collector
* Brendan Behan - author and playwright
* Harry Boland - friend of Michael Collins and anti-Treaty politician.
* 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) ""
* Sir Roger Casement - Human rights campaigner turned Irish revolutionary, executed by the British in 1916.² ""
* Robert Erskine Childers - Irish republican and Treaty signatory executed by the Irish Free State government during the Irish Civil War. "."
* J. J. Clancy - Irish Nationalist MP (1847-1928)
* Michael Collins - assassinated republican leader, Anglo-Irish Treaty signatory & 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.
* William Dargan - Ireland's rail pioneer
* Charlotte Despard
* Éamon de Valera - 3rd President of Ireland (1959-1973) and dominant 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. ""
* John Blake Dillon - Irish writer and politician
* Martin Doherty IRA member
* Frank Duff - founder of the Legion of Mary
* James Fitzmaurice - aviation pioneer
* Edmund Dwyer Gray - Irish 19th century MP, son of Sir John Gray.
* Sir John Gray - Irish 19th century MP. ""
* Maud Gonne - nationalist campaigner, love of W.B. Yeats's life, famed beauty and mother of Nobel & Lenin Peace Prize winner Seán MacBride, who is buried in the grave also. ""
* Arthur Griffith - President of Dáil Éireann (January - August 1922).
* Joseph Patrick Haverty - Irish painter
* Tim Healy - 1st Governor-General of the Irish Free State. ""
* Denis Caulfield Heron - lawyer and politician
* Gerard Manley Hopkins - poet
* Peadar Kearney - composer of the Irish National Anthem, Amhrán na bhFiann
* Kitty Kiernan - fiancée of Michael Collins
* James Larkin - Irish trade union leader and founder of the "Irish Transport & General Workers Union" (ITGWU).
* Seán MacBride - founder of Clann na Poblachta and a founder-member of Amnesty International.
* Edward Cardinal MacCabe - late 19th century Archbishop of Dublin & Primate of Ireland. "."
* Dick McKee - prominent 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 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". He was cremated in Glasnevin but is buried in Deansgrange Cemetery.
* Kate Cruise O'Brien - writer & publisher. This is not Kate O'Brien who is buried in Faversham Cemetery.
* Daniel O'Connell - dominant Irish political leader from 1820s to 1840s. ""
* Patrick Denis O'Donnell - well-known 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.
*John O' Leary (Fenian poet) [Alan O'Day, "‘O'Leary, John" (1830–1907)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006 ]
* James O'Mara - nationalist leader and member of the First Dáil
* Henry O'Neill - painter and archaeologist.
* 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
* Patrick James Smyth Journalist and politician
* David P. Tyndall - prominent Irish businessman who transformed the grocery business

External links

* [http://www.glasnevin-cemetery.ie Glasnevin Cemetery Official Site]
* Companion sites [http://www.irishgraves.com irishgraves.com] and [http://www.deadireland.com deadireland.com]
* [http://www.interment.net/data/ireland/dublin/glasnevin/glasnevin.htm Burial Records from Glasnevin Cemetery] Interment.netLuke Kelly- The Dubliner

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