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  Glasnevin - Wikipedia
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.
nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glasnevin   (2324 words)

  
 Glasnevin Cemetery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Glasnevin Cemetery is the main Catholic cemetery in Dublin, the capital of 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.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glasnevin_Cemetery   (869 words)

  
 Glasnevin - Freepedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Glasnevin is a residential neighbourhood on the Northside of the city of Dublin and south of the Ballymun area.
Approaching Glasnevin via Phibsboro is what is known as "Hart's Corner" (previously "Doyles Corner" and "Dunphy's Corner") [1] but which about a 200 years ago was called Glasmanogue, and was then a well-known stage on the way to Finglas.
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.freepedia.org /Glasnevin.html   (710 words)

  
 Glasnevin - TheBestLinks.com - Dublin, Jonathan Swift, Poet, Year, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Glasnevin contains Glasnevin Cemetery, the most historically notable cemetery in the country, the Irish National Botanic Gardens, and Dublin City University.
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   (651 words)

  
 Glasnevin cemetery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The dominant monument in the cemetery is the round tower in memory of Daniel O'Connell.
Throughout the cemetery the use of Celtic motifs, particularly that of the Celtic Cross as memorial, is notable.
The cemetery is the resting place for many of those responsible for the emergence of modern Ireland, for the establishment of political independence and the reawakening of national consciousness.
www.theadamsresidence.co.uk /nov98/glascem.html   (434 words)

  
 IrishAbroad - Irish Heritage
After a tour of Glasnevin Cemetery in north Dublin however, it becomes startlingly clear why we should remember the dead not just for their achievements in life, but also for what they give us in their deaths.
Glasnevin Cemetery is of particular note not just because of its size (120 acres, with over 1.2 million buried within) but also because of its famed inhabitants.
Death and Design in Victorian Glasnevin provides a fascinating overview of Victorian life in Ireland, the political forces at play and also how (considering death was almost fetishised by the Victorians) the Cemetery became a political pawn.
www.irishabroad.com /yourroots/heritage/Glasnevin.asp   (469 words)

  
 List of famous cemeteries
Fairview Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia - the RMS Titanic cemetery.
Highgate Cemetery, London - the tomb of Karl Marx, topped with a huge bronze bust, is here; Highgate is notable for its "Egyptian catacombs", where John Galsworthy, George Eliot, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti were buried.
Punchbowl[?], Honolulu - military cemetery of the Pacific, in the Punchbowl Crater of an extinct volcano known as Puowaina, Hawaiian for "Hill of Sacrifice."
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/li/List_of_famous_cemeteries.html   (797 words)

  
 Glasnevin Cemetery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
From the beginning, Glasnevin was entirely egalitarian - open to all regardless of religion, politics or wealth.
Ireland's history, seemingly never long without conflict, has been particularly turbulent over the past 150 years and so it is hardly surprising that the cemetery contains the graves of some of the most influential, controversial or inspiring leaders and revolutionaries among the graves of ordinary citizens.
The famous 19th century political leader who brought about land reform in Ireland and firmly placed Ireland's claim to home rule on the political agenda in Britain is buried here in a mass grave among the people as he wished.
club2.telepolis.com /maderita/others/cemeteries/glasnevin/glasnevin2.html   (145 words)

  
 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Within the walls of this cemetery, these figures lie side by side-the ideal as set down by the founder of the cemetery, Daniel O’Connell, whose desire was to see people of all denominations and creeds buried together.
After the Norman invasion in the twelfth century, the church and lands of Glasnevin became the property of the Prior of the Holy Trinity (Christchurch).
However, despite protests from petrie and others, the cemetery committee decided to postpone the building of the chapel and the cross and to proceed with construction of the round tower instead, beneath which O’Connell’s remains were to be placed in a crypt.
www.glasnevin-cemetery.ie /html/history.html   (788 words)

  
 Caomhánach - Article - My Grandfathers Grave
It was mid-August and the heat rose in waves from the pavement as I crossed the road to the car park in Glasnevin Cemetery.
She told me he was interred in Glasnevin and that they had gone there once in the 1950's.
I supplied this information to one of the clerks in the cemetery office and was directed to the grave of an Owen Kavanagh who died in 1918, but there was no headstone at the site.
www.kavanaghfamily.com /articles/2005/20050405.htm   (1165 words)

  
 Evening Echo: News
O’Connell earlier pleaded not guilty to five counts of unlawful use of a mechanical digger and criminal damage of the digger, a lawnmower, a tractor and 48 gravestone monuments at Glasnevin Cemetery, Finglas Road on February 17, 2003.
The jury was earlier told by prosecuting counsel, Ms Mary Rose Gearty BL, that staff arrived at the cemetery on February 18, 2003 and found a mechanical digger had been driven through it and a large number of monuments had been overturned and destroyed.
She read into evidence a statement from Mr George McCullough, chief executive of "Dublin Cemeteries Committee" who said the cemetery had been locked by security staff on the evening in question and he was made aware of the damage the next morning.
www.eecho.ie /news/bstory.asp?j=180963600&p=y8x96455x&n=180964587   (347 words)

  
 family
Glasnevin is one of the few Cemeteries that allowed stillborn babies to be buried in concentrated ground.
Many babies were buried in the ditches and hedges on the outside of other cemeteries around the country.
As hard as it is to see this vast grave area, where so many children are buried and not all the children buried their were stillborn babies, it is also important to remember that at that time there were few cemeteries that allowed the burial of stillborn babies at all.
www.isands.ie /htmls/oldholyangelsplot.html   (754 words)

  
 Descendants of Andrew Melvin
His burial plot is surrounded by ornate metal railings and there is a fine Celtic cross erected by "his numerous friends as a token of the estimation which he was held in all relations of life".
She is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery with her grandson Denis and other members of her family.
She is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery with her son, Denis and sister in law, Catherine Brennan.
www.richpettit.com /melvin/andewmelvin.htm   (1216 words)

  
 Irish Examiner - 2003/02/19: Vandals use JCB to destroy graveyard
Cemetery officials say the vandals broke into a machinery compound within Glasnevin some time after 4am yesterday before going on a rampage with the JCB through the graveyard.
Staff at Glasnevin are attempting to notify the relatives of people whose headstones were broken, although they accept that many of the families may now have died out or are no longer traceable.
Detectives from Fitzgibbon Street were yesterday conducting forensic tests at Glasnevin in an attempt to identify the vandals.
archives.tcm.ie /irishexaminer/2003/02/19/story604457706.asp   (329 words)

  
 Glasnevin cemetary
A publication about the monuments of Glasnevin graveyard might be expected to appeal to a peculiarly morbid breed.
In fact, Glasnevin was non-denominational, but O'Connell 's role in securing it meant that the few Protestants buried there tended to be national figures such as Parnell, Ruthven and John Philpott Curran.
His penultimate section, Ireland: A Giant Glasnevin, mourns the neglect of art and architecture throughout the society for which the graveyard serves as a useful metaphor.
www.ivenus.com /culture/books/features/File_38620000811140627.asp   (661 words)

  
 "I am the insurrection and the life"
According to Glasnevin Cemetery: An Historic Walk(or GCHW) in the sixth century, the saint Mobhi is believed to have established a seat of learning in Glasnevin on the banks of River Tolka, and both Saint Columba and Saint Canice were reputed to have studied under him(5).
The new ground at Glasnevin was blessed on 29th September 1831, and a Michael Carey became the first person to be interred on February 21st, 1832.
On the way to the cemetery, Bloom feels pain for his son's death, the adultery between his wife Molly and Blazes Boylan, and his father's suicide, but here in the cemetery, he is unaffected by the dead, although he pretends to show sympathy for the dead before the other mourners.
p-www.iwate-pu.ac.jp /~acro-ito/Joycean_Essays/U06_insurrection&life.html   (6212 words)

  
 Genealogy - Tracing your Family Tree   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
This little-known cemetery in London is honored by a preservation society that offers newsletters, committee meetings and conservation effort updates.
Tucked away in Dublin, Glasnevin Cemetery is the resting place for more than 1 million Irish men and women.
Cemeteries in Graceland, Mt. Carmel, Bachelor's Grove and others around the Chicago area are described in detail and organized here by city direction.
www.pcfl.net /channels/family/fam09.htm   (458 words)

  
 Dáil Éireann - Volume 440 - 10 March, 1994 - Written Answers. - Glasnevin (Dublin) Cemetery.
Ahern asked the Minister for Finance if Glasnevin cemetery or any part of it is under the special control or designation of his Department; and his views on whether developments in the vicinity of the cemetery will affect its monument or special designation.
Dempsey): The Commisioners of Public Works are responsible for the maintenance of the screen wall monument in Glasnevin Cemetery dedicated to the memory of the War Veterans interred there.
They are not aware of any developments in the vicinity of the cemetery which may affect this responsibility.
www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /D/0440/D.0440.199403100045.html   (159 words)

  
 Glasnevin Cemetery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Aware of this injustice, Daniel O'Connell, among others, organised the opening of Glasnevin Cemetery in 1832.
O'Connell, known as the Liberator for his long campaign for Catholic emancipation following the Act of Union in 1800, was himself buired in Glasnevin in a tomb below a magnificent Round Tower echoing the ancient Round Towers unique to Ireland's early monasteries.
His body is buried in Ireland but at his request his heart was removed and is buried in Rome - the destination of his own uncompleted pilgrimage made at the age of 70 when in failing health.
club2.telepolis.com /maderita/others/cemeteries/glasnevin/glasnevin.html   (120 words)

  
 ireland.com / In Time's Eye / WILD in the CITY
Red squirrels are found in Glasnevin Cemetery and the adjoining National Botanic Gardens.
Badgers are resident in Glasnevin Cemetery and in the grounds of two convents whose graveyards were included in this study.
Similarly, a graveyard such as the Hibernian Cemetery benefits from the greater range of wildife in the surrounding Phoenix Park and Kilmainham Cemetery is surrounded by the mature grounds of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham.
www.ireland.com /timeseye/wild/article_p4a.htm   (853 words)

  
 glasnevin cemetery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Welcome to Glasnevin Cemetery, the largest cemetery in Ireland and the first of its kind.
Cathedral and St. Patricks Cathedral in Dublin, and the McCabe Mausoleum, Sir John Gray monument and Barry Sullivan monument in Glasnevin Cemetery.
The foundation of the cemetery is linked to the movements towards...
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 Dáil Éireann - Volume 319 - 24 April, 1980 - Written Answers. - Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
Keating asked the Minister for the Environment if he has satisfied himself with the conditions in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, if the promised inquiries to improve the situation have taken place and if he will make a statement in the matter.
Barrett): Improvement works to Glasnevin Cemetry costing approximately £120,000 have been carried out by Dublin Corporation under the environmental improvement schemes programme in the years 1978 and 1979 on behalf of the Dublin Cemeteries Committee.
These works have to a large extent alleviated the unsatisfactory conditions which prevailed up to 1978 and as far as I am aware no complaints in regard to the state of the cemetery have been received since that year.
www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /D/0319/D.0319.198004240059.html   (154 words)

  
 Celtic Revival Crosses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
New versions of the High Cross quickly became fashionable cemetery monuments in Victorian Dublin in the 1860s.
By the 1890s Celtic Crosses began to appear in cemeteries and churches around the world, wherever there was a Scottish or Irish Diaspora population with pride in their origins.
Irish cemeteries now seem to be choked with Celtic Cross monuments.
www.celtarts.com /revival_crosses.htm   (941 words)

  
 Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, 1832-1900   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Founded in 1832, Prospect Cemetery, Glasnevin, rapidly became the largest cemetery in Ireland and a place of national importance.
The establishment of Prospect Cemetery coincided with burial reform and the rise of the 'garden cemetery' movement in Britain and Europe.
The author examines the cemetery in that context and assesses how it compared with its contemporaries in terms of interment practices, design and layout.
www.four-courts-press.ie /cgi/bookshow.cgi?file=Glasnevin.xml   (199 words)

  
 Home > Arts & Humanities > Visual Arts > Photography > Graveyard Art & Photography
Cemeteries of Martha's Vineyard - Collection of photographs and transcripts of gravestones from the Martha's Vineyard area in Massachusetts.
Cemetery Junction Directory - Directories of US and Australian cemeteries, with a strong focus on genealogy.
Cemetery Photos - Cemeteries around the world photographed by Bob Drake and contributing photographers.
www.skaffe.com /index2.php/viewCat/463/results_onpage/2   (531 words)

  
 Hedigans
The Brian Boru is on the road to Glasnevin Cemetery, and has long been a popular stop for funeral corteges, serving as a kind of decompression chamber between the grief of the bunal and the return home to Dublin.
James Joyce records the route of such a procession in Ulysses, and Brendan Behan records a marvellous cameo of two drunks in the famous cemetery.
There's a beautiful conservatory and garden in the back, and you can drive there secure in the knowledge that there's plenty of room for your car in the spacious car park.
www.irelandseye.com /aarticles/travel/attractions/pubs/hedigans.shtm   (264 words)

  
 Stone Cuttings Newsletter - Mar/Apr 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Over a million and a half people are buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin — including rebels, politicians, poets, actors, authors, and victims of the potato famine.
Truly a garden of stone, Glasnevin Cemetery is filled with elaborately carved and figured gravestones and more Celtic crosses than you’re likely to see anywhere else in the world.
It is the oldest museum building in BC and is packed with artifacts, relics and photographs of the pioneer families of Central and North Saanich.
www.oldcem.bc.ca /nletter_mar_apr_05.htm   (1557 words)

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