Thursday, March 14, 2024

Throwback Thursday - Glasnevin


September 2015 - Dublin Ireland

We stopped in to Glasnevin on the Hop On Hop Off but knew we had to come back and really visit it.


Glasnevin Cemetery, also known as Prospect Cemetery, is the main Catholic cemetery in Dublin, the capital of Ireland. It first opened in 1832.



Before the establishment of the Glasnevin Cemetery, Irish Catholics in Dublin had no cemeteries of their own. This was due to the repressive Penal Laws imposed on the Irish by the British who had placed restrictions on the public performance of Catholic services.

The round tower was built between 1855 and 1869 to commemorate the death of Daniel O’Connell, who had established the cemetery in 1832.  Click here to see a church dedicated to him in his home town.






Glasnevin Cemetery contains many historically interesting monuments as well as the graves of many of Ireland's most prominent national figures — Charles Stewart Parnell and Daniel O'Connell as well as Michael Collins, Éamon de Valera, Arthur Griffith, Maude Gonne, Kevin Barry, Sir Roger Casement, Constance Markiewicz, Brendan Behan, Seán MacBride and Christy Brown.

Michael Collins
Brendan Behan





The cemetery also offers a fascinating 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 twentieth century. Glasnevin Cemetery has grown from its original nine to over 120 acres.

























7 comments:

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  2. What an interesting collection in this cemetery!

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  3. Lovely pictures Jackie. Half my family are buried here, although they could rarely afford stone markers, sadly, and any markers there once were are now long gone.

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  4. A whole lot of history in that cemetery. The angel headstones really stand out to me.

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  5. What an assortment in that one cemetery. Interesting that Dara comments above she has relatives there.

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  6. Wow what a great cemetery, Id love to look round that one

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