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  National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin
The National Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin Ireland's premier botanical and horticultural establishment, is a rewarding and attractive garden for gar deners and non-gardeners alike.
The soil of the Glasnevin Botanic Gardens is heavy alkaline boulder clay, which confines the growing of calcifuge plants such as rhododendrons and ericas to specially prepared peat beds.
Glasnevin also houses a large rockery, a bog garden, a wild garden and a double, curving herbaceous border which is a marvellous sight in summer.
www.irelandseye.com /aarticles/travel/attractions/gardens/glasnevn.shtm   (882 words)

  
  Glasnevin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Glasnevin is a residential neighbourhood on the Northside of the city of Dublin and south of the Ballymun area.
Adjoining Glasnevin are the Irish National Botanic Gardens where stood the residence of Tickell, the poet and literary executor of Addison who came to Ireland as secretary to the Earl of Wharton in 1709.
Nowadays, Glasnevin is a vibrant community, largely comprising of a mix of young families and their more senior counterparts from the middle of the last century.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glasnevin   (741 words)

  
 Glasnevin
Glasnevin is a residential neighbourhood on the North side of Dublin City.
The village of Glasnevin has, of course, been much altered since Dr. Delany's time, and is now included in the city, but a few of the older houses still remain, and are readily distinguished by their old-world gardens, with their wealth of flowering shrubs and climbing plants.
Adjoining Glasnevin are the Botanic Gardens where stood the residence of Tickell, the poet and literary executor of Addison who came to Ireland as secretary to the Earl of Wharton in 1709.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gl/Glasnevin.html   (615 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Glasnevin
Traffic passing the Independent Bridge at Drumcondra, north Dublin The Northside is the area in Dublin City, Ireland bounded to the south by the River Liffey, to the east by Dublin Bay and to the north and west by the M50 motorway.
Dublin City University (DCU) is a university situated in Glasnevin on the Northside of Dublin in Ireland.
Glasnevin Cemetery reminds us how very recent Ireland's rise to economic power really is. As yet, the boom town Dublin has not found the time to prettify its past as it is represented at Glasnevin.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Glasnevin   (1506 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Glasnevin Cemetery
Cartoon of the Celtic Tiger - the press media in Ireland use pictures of green striped tigers to symbolise or sometimes mock the Celtic Tiger The Celtic Tiger is a nickname for the Republic of Ireland during its period of rapid economic growth between the 1990s and 2001 or 2002.
Broken coverstones through which one may peer into the walled crypts make Glasnevin a memento mori that can no longer be found in most of the developed world's garden cemeteries that aim to pacify, hide and obliterate, not remember, death.
Dublin (Irish: Baile Átha Cliath), is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Ireland, located near the midpoint of Irelands east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Glasnevin-Cemetery   (2956 words)

  
 Glasnevin - Dublin on ForumForUs
Glasnevin is a residential neighbourhood on the Northside of the city of Dublin and south of the Ballymun area.
The village of Glasnevin has, of course, been much altered since Dr. Delany's time, and is now included in the city, but a few of the older houses still remain, and are readily distinguished by their old-world gardens, with their wealth of flowering shrubs and climbing plants.
Nowadays, Glasnevin is a vibrant community, largely comprising of a mix of young families and their more senior counterparts from the middle of the last century.
dublin.forumforus.com /Glasnevin   (757 words)

  
 The Parish of Glasnevin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
At that time the priory's staff at Glasnevin consisted of a bailiff, a sergeant or foreman, a carter, six ploughmen, a shepherd, a doorkeeper, and a housemaid, and during harvest, in addition, two superintendents of higher rank were employed.
Glasnevin House was occupied after the death of Henry Mitchell, which occurred in the same year as that of Delany, 1768, by his widow and his son.
In 1572 the curate is mentioned as entitled to the rent of a house at Glasnevin known as "the church house" and in 1581 the vicar is mentioned as entitled to a proper rotation of crops on the Glasnevin lands to maintain his tithe.
www.chapters.eiretek.org /books/ball1-6/Ball6/ball6.7.htm   (5863 words)

  
 Royal Horticultural Society - Publications: The Orchid Review September - October 2003
When the name of Glasnevin is uttered in a room full of orchidophiles, it is usually met with a great degree of respect, a fact that really came home to me when I first exhibited at the London Orchid Show in 1997.
That was the first time in many decades that Glasnevin was represented at an international venue and one where we (the Glasnevin contingent with a small display of material from the collection) were made very welcome.
The Society's aims are to provide a forum for everyone interested in orchids and their cultivation, to educate and spread knowledge about the family and especially Irish Orchid History, to encourage research in the orchid field and to form links with other societies and organisations.
www.rhs.org.uk /thegarden/orchidreview/orchid0903/glasnevin.asp   (1217 words)

  
 Glasnevin Cemetery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Glasnevin Cemetery is the main Catholic cemetery in Dublin, the capital of Ireland.
Kevin Barry - a medical student executed by the British for his role in the Irish War of Independence.
He was cremated in Glasnevin but is buried in Deansgrange Cemetery.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glasnevin_Cemetery   (678 words)

  
 Glasnevin Cemetery
Description: Glasnevin Cemetery, the largest cemetery in Ireland, first opened its gates in 1832 after a series of events prompted Daniel O'Connell to establish a burial place for the Catholic nation of Ireland.
Glasnevin Cemetery, as it is now known, has grown from its original nine to over 120 acres.
Glasnevin cemetery displays some fine examples of the work of many of Ireland's greatest sculptors, stonemasons and architects including J.J. McCarthy, James Pearse (father of Padraig Pearse who was executed for his role as leader in the 1916 Rising), John Hogan and Sir Thomas Farrell.
www.dublinevents.com /dublin-places-to-visit/glasnevin-cemetery.php   (394 words)

  
 Glasnevin Cemetery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The cemetery also offers a fascinating view the changing style of death monuments in over the last 200 years; from the simple high stone erections of the period until the 1860s to the elaborate celtic of the nationalistic revival from the 1860s 1960s to the plain Italian marble of late twentieth century.
Nowadays Glasnevin fascinates the visitor not only of its historical graves but also because its unique atmosphere of unkept desolation and abandonment.
It is a wasteland of greyish crumbling listing broken or fallen monuments and occasional contemporary shabbiness that evokes a third-world in the middle of the burgeoning Celtic Tiger capital.
www.freeglossary.com /Glasnevin_Cemetery   (904 words)

  
 Royal Horticultural Society - Publications: The Orchid Review September - October 2003
Interwoven in the account of Glasnevin’s collection is a fascinating history of the discovery of the native Irish orchids.
Dactylorhiza elata ‘Glasnevin’ is fittingly the frontispiece of the present volume.
The concluding chapter brings the story of Glasnevin’s orchid collection up to date, including successful field trips to Belize on which several new orchids were recorded for the country and the successful awarded exhibits at shows by the Royal Horticultural Society in London.
www.rhs.org.uk /thegarden/orchidreview/orchid0903/glasnevinbook.asp   (560 words)

  
 Glasnevin - TheBestLinks.com - Dublin, Jonathan Swift, Poet, Year, ...
Glasnevin, Dublin, Jonathan Swift, Poet, Year, 18th century, 1740, 1709...
Approaching Glasnevin via Phibsboro is what is known as "Doyles Corner" (previously "Dunphy's Corner") [1] (http://www.irishpubguide.ie/Irish%20Pub%20Guide/dublin/70.htm) but which about a 200 years ago was called Glasmanogue, and was then a well-known stage on the way to Finglas.
CHAPTER XXVI, "Glasnevin, Finglas and the adjacent district" [scanned in by Ken Finlay[3] (http://indigo.ie/~kfinlay/Neighbourhood/contents.html)].
www.thebestlinks.com /Glasnevin.html   (642 words)

  
 Blather.net: Shitegeist: Waking the Dead: the Battle of Glasnevin Graveyard
Glasnevin graveyard still bears the scars and effects of the time; the watchtowers of the ever vigilant corpse-guards are still visible today.
Glasnevin is the last resting place of many famous men and women, political figures and revolutionaries alike.
It is, also, now home to the remains of Ireland's forgotten and unwanted; the group known as the Magdalene women, those unfortunate women who committed no other crime than to fall foul of puritanical Ireland's fear of unmarried women.
www.blather.net /shitegeist/2005/11/waking_the_dead_4.htm   (766 words)

  
 Garden Heaven
He started work as a gardener in Glasnevin in 1986, and thern returned to the States for a career break.
In March 1994 he took charge of the revitalising of the famous Glasnevin orchid collection which led to specialising in orchids from the Central American country of Belize.
The manuscript for his first book - Glasnevin Orchids is co-authored with Dr. E Charles Nelson and is awaiting publication.
www.rte.ie /tv/gardenheaven/brendan.html   (433 words)

  
 A short history of Egans House
Glasnevin, or Glas Na’on, ‘Stream of the Infants’ — also known as Glas Naedhe, O Naeidhe’s Stream, first came into prominence in the sixth century, when St Mobhi founded a monastery on the banks of the river Tolka, on the present site of Glasnevin Village.
After the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in the twelfth century the lands of Glasnevin became the property of the Holy Trinity (Christ Church Cathedral) and in its returns for 1326 it was stated that 28 tenants resided in Glasnevin.
In the 1540’s Glasnevin had developed as a village, its principal landmark and focal point was its "bull -ring".
www.eganshouse.com /history.html   (2350 words)

  
 Glasnevin Cemetery
For many thousands of years, cremation has been used as an alternative method of disposing remains after death, and for more than a decade now, the Glasnevin Crematorium has been servicing the needs of all those in the Republic of Ireland who wish to use the service of cremation.
The Glasnevin Crematorium is one of the most modern in Europe, and the service has been designed to cause the minimum emotional upset to the bereaved mourners.
This is optional and it is open to the personal representative to make other arrangements if he so wishes.
www.glasnevin-cemetery.ie /www.glasnevin-cemetery.ie/faccrem.html   (797 words)

  
 Caomhánach - Article - My Grandfathers Grave
I remember once asking my mother where my grandfather was buried and if she and my father ever visited his grave on their trips to Ireland.
Under the terms of the contract, if payment was not made in full, ownership of the site would revert to the cemetery and after 30 years the plot could be resold.
Glasnevin eventually resold the grave to a family named Kehoe.
www.kavanaghfamily.com /articles/2005/20050405.htm   (1165 words)

  
 Glasnevin Cemetery: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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Glasnevin Cemetery reminds us how very recent Ireland Ireland quick summary:
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www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gl/glasnevin_cemetery.htm   (2444 words)

  
 Cabra, Drumcondra, Glasnevin, North Strand.
While deliberate design may often be traced in the central plan of a city, the suburban districts are usually allowed to grow up haphazard, each sprawling ungracefully over the countryside, and linked with its neighbours by narrow and winding lanes, which have lost their rustic beauty, but 8till retain their primitive inconvenience.
Glasnevin has associations with famous English men of letters.
The level reclaimed district between there and the Liffey is a maze of goods yards, railway sidings and dock bridges.
www.chapters.eiretek.org /books/Chart/chart18.html   (2486 words)

  
 Papers by Dr E.C. Nelson
Charles Darwin's correspondence with David Moore of Glasnevin on insectivorous plants and potatoes.
The cause of the calamity: the discovery of the potato blight in Ireland, 1845-1847, and the role of the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, in L. Dowley et alii (editors), Phytophthora infestans 150.
William McNab's herbarium in the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin (DBN) with catalogues of specimens [from the Royal Gardens, Kew (1805–May 1810) relating to Hortus Kewensis (edition 2); from the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (May 1810–1818), and native plants from Scotland and England].
www.tippitiwitchet.co.uk /ecnpapers.html   (3669 words)

  
 Glasnevin Match Reports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It was cold windy and miserable on saturday but that didn't stop Glasnevin putting four past Hadleigh Pines.
The game started off well for us and we seemed to have most of the possesion, but we where finding it hard to knock the ball about due to the conditions.
Conditions were perfect but the football wasn't.We went down a goal after about 20 minutes a strike that wasn't closed down quick enough.
www.geocities.com /glasnevinmatch   (308 words)

  
 Industrial Technologies - People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Jim is based in Glasnevin and is the Director of the Industrial Technologies Programme.
Most of his career was in the maintenance repair and overhaul of aircraft engines and their components.
Pauline is PA to the Director and Programme Administrator with particular responsibility for budget management of the programmes administration budget.
www.mat-irl.ie /people.aspx   (455 words)

  
 Botanic View B&B - Bed & Breakfast - Glasnevin - Dublin
If you are coming from outside Dublin follow the M50 north bound and take the (Finglas) exit at the N2 - go under the motorway and continue straight for city centre.
When you come to Glasnevin Cemetary on your left, I am the located in front of you at the 3rd set of traffic lights.
From city centre, take bus nos 13, 19, 19A or 83 and ask for stop after Spar supermarket in Glasnevin.
www.irelandby.com /botanicview/pages/reach.htm   (330 words)

  
 Glasnevin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
I grew up hearing the names of these people uttered throughout my life, being taught about them in history class, listening to discussions about them around the kitchen tables as they were spoken about, some with total reverence and respect, others with distain.
Walking through the grounds of Glasnevin was my stroll through my history, the realisation that these people were not just a figment of my imagination, or part of Irish folklore, they lived, breathed, loved, romanced, fought and in some cases died for this country.
The stories of this cemetery abound, from the bodysnatchers that would drink in the local pub and at night climb the walls to get in and pinch a newly buried body, bring it to the Royal College of Surgeons where they would be duly rewarded for their trouble.
www.floweringwoman.org /Glasnevinopen.htm   (381 words)

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