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Glasnevin Cemetery

29 October 2012
1882 – T.H. Burke Memorial, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin

1882 – T.H. Burke Memorial, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin

Architect: Thomas Drew Proposed by the Resident Magistrates of Ireland, 1882. Published in The Building News, August 18th 1882. Thomas Burke was murdered by the Invincibles in 1882.

17 September 2012
1889 – Cassidy Monument, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin

1889 – Cassidy Monument, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin

Architect: Charles Geoghegan From The Irish Builder: “The contact for the erection of the monument to the late Matthew Cassidty Esq., an illustration of which is given with our present number, has been...

04 February 2011
2010 – Glasnevin Trust Museum, Dublin

2010 – Glasnevin Trust Museum, Dublin

Architect: A&D Wejchert & Partners Glasnevin Cemetery is run by the Glasnevin Trust, the cemetery first opened in 1834, and from the beginning was completely open to people of all faiths. Very little...

05 June 2010
Fitting addition to national necropolis

Fitting addition to national necropolis

Most of the €11 million museum and heritage building at Glasnevin Cemetery is made of glass – and underground, which is particularly appropriate given what it aims to remind us of. The great...

23 March 2010
Glasnevin Cemetery €12 million Museum and Visitor Centre nears completion

Glasnevin Cemetery €12 million Museum and Visitor Centre nears completion

The state of the art building is scheduled to be completed by April 2010 and will house an underground museum and over 1.5 million archived burial records compiled since the Cemetery opened 178...

14 December 2009
1888 – Cardinal MacCabe Memorial, Glasnevin, Dublin

1888 – Cardinal MacCabe Memorial, Glasnevin, Dublin

Architect: G.C. Ashlin Designed by George Coppinger Ashlin to upstage the recently completed church by J.J. McCarthy who was his main rival for Irish church commissions. The effigy of the cardinal is by...

22 October 2009
Liberator’s tomb opens to public

Liberator’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...