GLASNEVIN CEMETERY 

GLASNEVIN CEMETERY

Glasnevin Cemetery (Irish: Reilig Ghlas Naíon), also known as Prospect Cemetery, is the main Catholic cemetery in Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland.

Established in the middle of the 19th century to replace the old burial grounds within the city, 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 and Constance Markiewicz a generation later.

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 is the setting for the Hades chapter in James Joyce's Ulysses.

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Glasnevin Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Ireland and the first of its kind.

The cemetery embodies the history of Ireland through its story and the famous men and women buried here.

From the opening of its gates in 1832 right through to its most recent event — the State funerals of Kevin Barry and his comrades on October 2001, Glasnevin Cemetery has acted as Ireland’s National Cemetery and is the final resting place of those who have helped shape modern Ireland. 

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