Glasnevin Trust

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The St Paul’s section at Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, where the crematorium chapel was to have been built. Photograph: Alan Betson
Glasnevin reverses plan to build chapel on ‘Poor Ground’ graves

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(...)

Brigadier General Howard Birney, 2nd Brigade laying a wreath at the grave of Edward Hollywood. Minister Heather Humphreys and John Green look on. Photograph: Iain White/Fennell Photography
Easter Rising: Peadar Kearney’s great-grandson sings Anthem at Glasnevin commemoration

The great grandson of Peadar Kearney, who composed of the National Anthem, was among those gathered in Glasnevin Cemetery on Easter Sunday morning to (...)

Nancy Dillon from Dublin and about 60 members of her extended family attended the ceremony. Photograph: Elaine Edwards
Bloody Sunday: Woman (95) marks grave of father she never knew

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(...)

Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin. File photograph: Getty Images/iStockphoto
Family challenge Glasnevin Cemetery over ‘pauper’s grave’

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 commemoration at Glasnevin Cemetary, Dublin. Photograph: Eric Luke
Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith remembered in Glasnevin

Two ‘giants’ of Irish history were remembered at the 93rd annual commemoration for Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin(...)

Prince Edward will attend a ceremony to unveil a war memorial Cross of Sacrifice at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin next Thursday. Photograph: Pool/Getty Images
British royal to attend unveiling of Cross of Sacrifice in Glasnevin Cemetery

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(...)