This is a list of notable people buried in Glasnevin Cemetery. See also Category: Burials at Glasnevin Cemetery Thomas Ashe - died on hunger strike in 1917 Kevin Barry - a medical student executed by the British for his role in the Irish War of Independence. (His body was moved from Mountjoy Prison to Glasnevin in October 2001, having been accorded a state funeral.

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  • This is a list of notable people buried in Glasnevin Cemetery. See also Category: Burials at Glasnevin Cemetery Thomas Ashe - died on hunger strike in 1917 Kevin Barry - a medical student executed by the British for his role in the Irish War of Independence. (His body was moved from Mountjoy Prison to Glasnevin in October 2001, having been accorded a state funeral. ) Piaras Beaslai - Easter Rising survivor turned writer Sir Alfred Chester Beatty - art collector Brendan Behan - author and playwright Harry Boland - friend of Michael Collins and anti-Treaty politician. Christy Brown - writer of My Left Foot and subject of the film of the same name Father Francis Browne - Jesuit priest and photographer who took the last known photographs of RMS Titanic Cathal Brugha - first President of Dáil Éireann (January - April 1919) ' Sir Roger Casement - Human rights campaigner turned Irish revolutionary, executed by the British in 1916. ' Robert Erskine Childers - Irish republican and Treaty signatory executed by the Irish Free State government during the Irish Civil War. . J. J. Clancy - Irish Nationalist MP (1847-1928) Michael Collins - assassinated republican leader, Anglo-Irish Treaty signatory & first internationally recognised Irish head of government. Dáithí Ó Conaill - a founder member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army Roddy Connolly - socialist politician and son of James Connolly. Andy Cooney - Irish republican John Philpot Curran - patriotic barrister, renowned wit, lawyer on behalf of Wolfe Tone and other United Irishmen, Sarah Curran's father. William Dargan - Ireland's rail pioneer Charlotte Despard Éamon de Valera - 3rd President of Ireland (1959-1973) and dominant leader of 20th century. Sinéad de Valera - wife of Éamon de Valera, buried in the same plot. Anne Devlin - famed housekeeper of Robert Emmet John Devoy - Fenian leader. ' John Blake Dillon - Irish writer and politician Martin Doherty IRA member Frank Duff - founder of the Legion of Mary James Fitzmaurice - aviation pioneer Edmund Dwyer Gray - Irish 19th century MP, son of Sir John Gray. Sir John Gray - Irish 19th century MP. ' Maud Gonne - nationalist campaigner, love of W.B. Yeats's life, famed beauty and mother of Nobel & Lenin Peace Prize winner Seán MacBride, who is buried in the grave also. ' Arthur Griffith - President of Dáil Éireann (January - August 1922). Joseph Patrick Haverty - Irish painter Tim Healy - 1st Governor-General of the Irish Free State. ' Denis Caulfield Heron - lawyer and politician Gerard Manley Hopkins - poet Peadar Kearney - composer of the Irish National Anthem, Amhrán na bhFiann Kitty Kiernan - fiancée of Michael Collins James Larkin - Irish trade union leader and founder of the Irish Transport & General Workers Union (ITGWU). Seán MacBride - founder of Clann na Poblachta and a founder-member of Amnesty International. Edward Cardinal MacCabe - late 19th century Archbishop of Dublin & Primate of Ireland. . Dick McKee - prominent member of the Irish Republican Army during the War of Independence. Terence MacManus - Irish rebel and shipping agent. James Patrick Mahon - Irish nationalist politician and mercenary. Countess Constance Markiewicz - first woman elected to the British House of Commons and a minister in the first Irish government. Manchester Martyrs - gravestone honouring three members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood known in history as the Manchester Martyrs who were in fact buried in the grounds of a British prison following their execution by the British. Dermot Morgan - Irish satirist and star of Father Ted. He was cremated in Glasnevin but is buried in Deansgrange Cemetery. Kate Cruise O'Brien - writer & publisher. This is not Kate O'Brien who is buried in Faversham Cemetery. Daniel O'Connell - dominant Irish political leader from 1820s to 1840s. ' Patrick Denis O'Donnell - well-known Irish military historian, writer, and former UN peace-keeper. Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa - Fenian leader. Patrick Pearse's oration at his funeral in 1915 has gone down in history. Eoin O'Duffy - Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army and leader of The Blueshirts. Thomas O'Hagan, 1st Baron O'Hagan - Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Kevin O'Higgins - assassinated Vice-President of the Executive Council. Seán T. O'Kelly - 2nd President of Ireland (1945-1959). John O'Mahony - a founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. John O' Leary (Fenian poet) James O'Mara - nationalist leader and member of the First Dáil Henry O'Neill - painter and archaeologist. Charles Stewart Parnell - dominant Irish political leader from 1875 to 1891. Patrick (P.J. ) Ruttledge - Minister in Éamon de Valera's early governments. Daniel D. Sheehan - first independent Irish labour MP. Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington - founder of Irish Women's Franchise League Patrick James Smyth Journalist and politician David P. Tyndall - prominent Irish businessman who transformed the grocery business
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  • This is a list of notable people buried in Glasnevin Cemetery. See also Category: Burials at Glasnevin Cemetery Thomas Ashe - died on hunger strike in 1917 Kevin Barry - a medical student executed by the British for his role in the Irish War of Independence. (His body was moved from Mountjoy Prison to Glasnevin in October 2001, having been accorded a state funeral.
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