Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland

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Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland

CEMETERY

Official Website:
http://www.glasnevin-cemetery.ie/

Founding Date:
1832

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Brendan Behan Playwright 9-Feb-1923 20-Mar-1964 The Hostage

Roger Casement Activist 1-Sep-1864 3-Aug-1916 Irish revolutionary, gay diarist

Michael Collins Activist 16-Oct-1890 22-Aug-1922 Irish Nationalist, spymaster

Eamon de Valera Head of State 14-Oct-1882 29-Aug-1975 President of Ireland, 1959-73

Gerard Manley Hopkins Poet 28-Jul-1844 8-Jun-1889 Defeated the tyranny of poetic meter

Seán MacBride Activist 26-Jan-1904 15-Jan-1988 Irish revolutionary, Nobel Prize recipient

Daniel O'Connell Politician 6-Aug-1775 15-May-1847 Irish hero, called The Liberator

Charles Stewart Parnell Politician 27-Jun-1846 6-Oct-1891 Irish Nationalist leader

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