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7 unusual facts about Glasnevin Cemetery


A.L.O.N.E.

In Glasnevin Cemetery there is the Alone Millenium Plot where the charity buries those who were unclaimed when they died and had no one to take care of a funeral for them.

Blueshirts

It was to proceed to Glasnevin Cemetery, stopping briefly on Leinster lawn in front of the Irish parliament, where speeches were to be held.

Forgotten Ten

Through the efforts of the Association, the graves of the men were identified in 1934, and in 1996 a Celtic Cross was erected in Glasnevin Cemetery to commemorate them.

On October 14, 2001, the Forgotten Ten were afforded full state honours, with a private service at Mountjoy Prison for the families of the dead, a requiem mass at St Mary's Pro-Cathedral and burial in Glasnevin Cemetery.

Glasnevin Cemetery

The cemetery also offers a view of the changing style of death monuments in Ireland over the last 200 years: from the austere, simple, high stone erections of the period up until the 1860s, to the elaborate Celtic crosses of the nationalistic revival from the 1860s to 1960s, to the plain Italian marble of the late 20th century.

Manchester Martyrs

Monuments erected in honour of Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien stand in Limerick, Kilrush (County Clare), Clonmel (County Tipperary), Birr (County Offaly), Ennis (County Clare), Glasnevin Cemetery (Dublin), and in St Joseph's Cemetery, Moston, Manchester.

Tomás Ó Dubhghaill

He died in St Luke's Hospital on 12 March 1962 and was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery.


Patrick Denis O'Donnell

Patrick Denis O'Donnell died in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, after a long illness, and his remains were interred in Glasnevin Cemetery, following a funeral with military honours and a pall-bearer party from the 5th Infantry Battalion, whose insignia he designed, and in the presence of the Chief of Staff, Lt. General James Sreenan, and accompanied by surviving family members, relatives and friends.

Republican plot

Notable Republican plots include those at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin and Milltown Cemetery in Belfast, where the hunger-strikers Bobby Sands and Joe McDonnell are buried, and which was the site of an attack on a Republican funeral in 1988 by a loyalist paramilitary, Michael Stone.


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