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Glasnevin Cemetery

Glasnevin Cemetery , also known as Prospect Cemetery, is the main Catholic

Catholic

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cemetery

Cemetery

A cemetery is a place in which death body and cremation are burial. The term cemetery implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground....
in Dublin

Dublin

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
, the capital of Ireland

Republic of Ireland

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Glasnevin Cemetery , also known as Prospect Cemetery, is the main Catholic

Catholic

Cemetery

A cemetery is a place in which death body and cremation are burial. The term cemetery implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground....
in Dublin

Dublin

Republic of Ireland

Ireland is an Island country in north-western Europe. The modern Sovereignty state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned by the British on 3 May 1921....
. 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. Glasnevin

Glasnevin

Glasnevin is a largely residential neighbourhood of Dublin, Republic of Ireland....
Cemetery contains many historically interesting monuments as well as the graves of many of Ireland's most prominent national figures — Charles Stewart Parnell

Charles Stewart Parnell

Charles Stewart Parnell was an Irish people Church of Ireland landowner, Irish Nationalism politician, Irish Land League agitator, Irish Home Rule bills Member of Parliament in the Palace of Westminster of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and founder and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party....
and Daniel O'Connell

Daniel O'Connell

Daniel O'Connell , known as The Liberator, or The Emancipator, was an Ireland political leader in the first half of the nineteenth century....
as well as Michael Collins

Michael Collins (Irish leader)

Michael John Collins was an Ireland revolutionary leadership, Minister for Finance and Member of Parliament for South Cork in the First D?il of 1919, Director of Military intelligence for the Irish Republican Army, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations....
, Éamon de Valera

Éamon de Valera

?amon de Valera was one of the dominant political figures in 20th century Ireland. His political career spanned over half a century, from 1917 to 1973; he served multiple terms as head of government and head of state, and is credited with a leading role in the authorship of the present-day Constitution of Ireland....
, Arthur Griffith

Arthur Griffith

Arthur Griffith was the founder and third leader of Sinn F?in. He served as President of D?il ?ireann from January to August 1922, and was head of the Irish delegation at the negotiations in London that produced the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921....
, Maude Gonne, Kevin Barry

Kevin Barry

Kevin Gerard Barry was the first Republican to be executed by the British since the leaders of the Easter Rising. Barry was sentenced to death for his part in an Irish Republican Army operation which resulted in the deaths of three British soldiers....
, Sir Roger Casement, Constance Markiewicz, Brendan Behan

Brendan Behan

Brendan Francis Behan was an Irish literature poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English. He was also a committed Irish Republican and a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army ....
, Seán MacBride

Seán MacBride

Se?n MacBride was an Irish Government Minister and prominent international relationsas well as a one-time Chief of Staff of the IRA.Rising from a domestic Irish political career, he founded or participated in many non-governmental organizations of the early 20th century, including the United Nations, the Council of Europe, and Amnesty Inte...
and Christy Brown

Christy Brown

Christy Brown was an Irish ethnicity author, Painting and poet who had severe cerebral palsy. He is most famous for his autobiography My Left Foot , which was later made into an Academy Award-winning My Left Foot ....
.

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 cross

Celtic cross

File:Celtic-style crossed circle.svgFile:CelticCross.svgA Celtic cross is a symbol that combines a cross with a ring surrounding the intersection....
es 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.

The high wall with watch-towers surrounding the cemetery was built to deter bodysnatchers

Body-snatching

Body-snatching was the secret disinterment of bodies from churchyards to sell them for dissection or anatomy lectures in medical schools. Those who practised body-snatching or grave robbing were often called "resurrectionists" or "resurrection-men."...
, who were active in Dublin in the 18th and early 19th century.

Glasnevin Cemetery is the setting for the "Hades" episode in James Joyce

James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Ireland expatriate author of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ....
's Ulysses
Ulysses (novel)

Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris....
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