Glasnevin Trust
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Glasnevin reverses plan to build chapel on ‘Poor Ground’ graves
- Social Affairs
- January 3, 2018, 20:30
A plan to build a chapel over an old burial plot containing the graves of more than 3,000 babies and 855 adults at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin has be(...)

Easter Rising: Peadar Kearney’s great-grandson sings Anthem at Glasnevin commemoration
- Irish News
- April 16, 2017
The great grandson of Peadar Kearney, who composed of the National Anthem, was among those gathered in Glasnevin Cemetery on Easter Sunday morning to (...)

A 95-year-old woman laid a wreath on Saturday at the grave of the father she never knew, who was shot dead by British forces along with 13 other civil(...)

Family challenge Glasnevin Cemetery over ‘pauper’s grave’
- Irish News
- September 21, 2015, 01:00
Some time between 9am-10am on January 4th, 1913, Christopher Leonard (24), a labourer and married man with five children, climbed down a manhole at Du(...)

Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith remembered in Glasnevin
- Heritage
- August 16, 2015, 17:13
Two ‘giants’ of Irish history were remembered at the 93rd annual commemoration for Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin(...)

British royal to attend unveiling of Cross of Sacrifice in Glasnevin Cemetery
- Irish News
- July 25, 2014, 18:31
President Higgins will be accompanied by His Royal Highness Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent, for the unveiling of a war memorial Cross of Sacrifice at(...)