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Thu 10 Oct 2009Liberator's tomb opens to public
CATHOLIC RIGHTS campaigner and politician Daniel O’Connell was remembered as a great icon yesterday during the opening of his refurbished crypt at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.
The coffin can be seen and touched through a number of portals cut into the stone, which has a brass band fixed to it stating in Latin: “Daniel O’Connell of Ireland, the Liberator. To the seat of the apostles going, on 15 May 1847, Genoa. Fell asleep in the Lord, having lived for 73 years.”
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