Catholic problems with burial in Protestant graveyards - for a price.
Chapter I. The ivy-mantled walls of the ruined churches of Ireland, which form familiar and picturesque objects throughout the country, serve to fix the…
History of the Dublin Catholic Cemeteries
Lord Mayor dies in office, Surgeon O'Reilly, Fr. Doran drowned.
Chapter XII. Denis Phelan, M.D., Assistant Poor Law Commissioner, who was buried at Glasnevin on May 23rd, 1871, is described by Sir John Gray, M.D., as "a…
Cholera of 1876, William Dargan, O'Connell Crypt.
Chapter X One of the heaviest years for burials was 1867, during the cholera epidemic, when in the month of January alone, 969 bodies were given to the earth…
Thomas Meagher, Renewal of Hostilities.
Chapter XIII. Thomas Meagher, M.P., Waterford, who died February 28th, 1874, was as remarkable for being a man of few words, as his son was famed for…
Conspiracy against the cemetery.
Chapter XI. The blow successfully dealt against Golden Bridge Cemetery in 1869 was followed a few months later by another aimed at the younger necropolis of…
Michael Angelo Hayes, RHA, Sheehan and the Mail.
Chapter XIV. Some previous details have been necessarily tinged with a sombre hue; and the search-light may not come amiss in such further explorations as…
Assassination of Thomas H. Burke, Under Secretary for Ireland.
Chapter XV. In April, 1882, Ireland was the poorer by what she could ill spare - a man of genius; her greatest poet (Moore alone excepted), ceased his…
The O'Gorman Mahony, Barry Sullivan and C. S. Parnell
Chapter XVIII. "The banshee must have wailed last night in historic Clare; a chieftain of the high Milesian race has fallen," wrote a journalist in announcing…
Edmund Dwyer Gray, M.P., Mr. Justice O'Hagan, Alderman Dennehy.
Chapter XVII. On 31st March, 1888, the remains of Edmund Dwyer Gray - one of the Members of Parliament for Dublin - were consigned to Glasnevin Cemetery…
More famous names from the toll of the dead.
Chapter XVI. Few men were more prominent than Peter Paul MacSwiney, twice Lord Mayor of Dublin, Knight of St. Gregory the Great, and Chevalier of the Legion…
New Offices, Additional Ground and Heavy Taxation
Chapter XX. The tenure of the old offices on Ormond Quay, in which space was very limited, having only a few years to run, and accommodation being urgently…
De Blaquiere Family, Delia Parnell, Sir John T. Gilbert
Chapter XIX. Several members of the De Blaquiere family were buried at Glasnevin. They were amongst the nearest relatives of Lord de Blaquiere. As Sir John…
Lord Wellesley insulted by Orangemen. Penal Days..
Chapter II. On 17th May, 1824, O'Connell censured, in characteristically caustic terms, the conduct of Archbishop Magee with respect to Catholic burials. He…
More ground needed, purchase of ground at Glasnevin.
Chapter III. So great had been the demand for admission to Golden Bridge Cemetery as a last resting place, that O'Connell suggested the necessity of providing…
Burial of Curran, Sir Robert Peel, "Watty" Cox.
Chapter IV. Curran fell with the leaves in October, 1817, and passed away in the bitter blasts which swept over the graveyard. "I fear you cough with more…
Con Lyne, Thomas Kennedy and the Funeral of O'Connell
Chapter V. Con Lyne, who had taken an active part in the final interment of Curran's remains and enjoyed life with a zest but slightly shared by his…
"Zozimus", cholera epidemic, Captain Quill, Thomas Moore.
Chapter VI. Glasnevin Cemetery is somewhat cosmopolitan. The Italian and the Russian, the Gaul and the citizen of the world, are equally included. Father…
The Straffan Railway Accident and John Finlay, LL.D.
Chapter VII. On May the 24th, 1853, the right band of Frederick William Conway lost its cunning, and "the ablest man ever connected with the Irish Press,"…
92nd Highlanders, South Dublin Union and War Office Demands
Chapter IX. One day, during the autumn of 1866, the Committee were surprised to receive from the quarters of the 92nd Highlanders, the following letter
Gallagher the Ventriloquist and "The Harmonious Blacksmith"
Chapter VIII. On April 6, 1861, Dublin was agitated by a great tragedy The Rathmines omnibus, heavily laden, was about to ascend Portobello Bridge, when the…
Contents of "History of the Dublin Catholic Cemeteries."
History of the Dublin Catholic Cemeteries By William J. Fitzpatrick, LL.D. Continued and Edited by his Son, under the direction of a Sub-Committee of the…