Contents of "History of the Dublin Catholic Cemeteries."

History of the Dublin Catholic Cemeteries By William J. Fitzpatrick, LL.D. Continued and Edited by his Son, under the direction of a Sub-Committee of the Board. Dublin Published at the Offices, 4 Rutland Square. 1900. Photos by W. Lawrence & Son, 5, 6, & 7 Upper Sackville Street, Dublin.

Chapter I. Church Property passes into Protestant hands at the Reformation - Archdeacon Blake not allowed to recite the Catholic Burial Service in St. Kevin’s churchyard - His Protest - Sensation produced - The Catholic Association formed - O’Connell on the hardship attending Roman Catholic Burial - His Speech and Motion - British indignation roused by the London Press - O’Connell prepares a Legal Oopinion, and shows that no statue law can prevent a Catholic Priest from praying for a deceased Catholic in a churchyard - Report of the Catholic Association - Archbishop Murray’s Caution - Peel ridicules the Grievance as a grave subject - Rev. J. F. L’Estrange - “Councillor Bric” petitions Parliament for Redress of the Burial Law - He is shot in a Duel at Glasnevin.

Chapter II. Liberality of Bishop Jebb - Lord Wellesley, Viceroy insulted by the Orangement - Plunket and Brough urge the “Easement of Burial” - Sir John Newport, a kindly Protestant, assists in providing Roman Catholics  with a Cemetery - A permanent Committee to conduct its affairs formed - Golden Bridge opened - Catholic Emancipation conceded - Dolphin’s Barn chapel - A sensational incident of Penal Days - St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Cork, opened - Rev. Walter Blake Kirwan - Schools of the Christian Brothers.

Chapter III. More ground needed - Land acquired near Milltown - An opposition organised - Injunction issued by the Court of Chancery - Heavy loss to the Catholic Cemetery Committee - Purchase of Ground at Glasnevin - Historic Memories - The turnpike - Rev. Dr. Yore - Richard Scott, O’Connell’s conducting agent - Edward Southwell Ruthven, M.P. - £20 a year for a Protestant Chaplain to officiate when required in the New Cemetery - Rev. W. Maturin - Protestants buried at Prospect - Asiatic cholera - Great mortality - The call for more ground again raised - Base traffic in the dead successfully resisted - Amount of money annually distributed by the Board for educational purposes - Bully’s Acre - Startling details.

Chapter IV. Burial of Curran’s remains - Letter from his son - Valentine Lord Cloncurry - Carew O’Dwyer - Henry Grattan Curran - The Sarcophagus of Papworth - Curran’s bust by Moore - Major Fitzgerald - Fathers O’Ferrall and Sgine, S.J - Sir Robert Peel and “Watty” Cox - Captain Edward Whyte, R.N. - Barbara Countess of Roscommon - John Redmond - Edward Dwyer.

Chapter V. Con Lyne - Thomas Kennedy and the uninscribed tom - Major Talbot and the Earldom of Shrewsbury - Right Hon. Anthony Malone - The Board of the Catholic Cemeteries seek to purchase Mount Jerome - Act of Parliament regulating the management of Golden Bridge and Glasnevin Cemeteries - The Committee - Mr. Macdonough, Q.C., M.P. - Funeral of O’Connell - Letter from his Son - The O’Connell Monument at Glasnevin - George Petrie, LL. D.

Chapter VI. Cosmopolitan features of the Cemetery - Gentili and Petcherine - Mr. (afterwards Lord) O’Hagan - “Zozimus” - Hugh Clinch - Tom Steele - Signor Albani - Lady Charlotte Mahon - The cholera of 1849, the Priests who fell - An old Peninsular officer - Captain Quill - Commissionary-General Goldrisk - James Clarence Mangan - Rev. Charles Aylmer, S.J. - Major Theobald Butler - con MacLoughlin - James Charles Bacon- Dr. Lee - Dr. Breen - Scott Molloy - De Jean, the Poet - “Anacreon in Dublin” - Thomas Moore.

Chapter VII. Frederick William Conway - Sir Simon Bradstreet, Bart. - Maurice O’Connell, M.P. - A Duel - The railway accident at Straffan - John Keogh - William Allingham - Richard Barrett, of the Pilot - Robert Holmes - John Lube - John Finlay, LL. D. - Richard Coyne - John Hogan, the Sculptor - Major Nicholson - Lady Mary Hodges - another railway accident - Francis White, F.R.C.S.I. - Terence Dolan - Hon. Mrs. St. John butler - Lord Dunboyne - John O’Connell, M.P. - Stephen Coppinger - Pat Costello - Bishop Blake - William Forde - Sri Edward McDonnell - The Ball before the Battle - Arthur Close, B.L. - “Sursim Corda” - Mrs. Palles.

Chapter VIII. A Tragedy - Terence Bellew MacManus - Lady Joshua Bond - “Lord Coolamber” - The Royal Irish Academy - John O’Donovan, LL.D. - Eugene O’Curry - Fr. Corr - John Donegan - Father Esmonde, S.J. - Alexander MacDonnell, F.R.C.S.I. - Gallagher the Ventriloquist - William Dillon Walker - Sir Timothy O’Brien, M.P. - Very Rev. Dr. Yore - “The Harmonious Blacksmith” - Captain Leyne, R.M. - Dr. Harkan - Martin Burke - Mathew O’Conor - Captain O’Brien - Christopher Moore, R.H.A. - Surgeon Leonard Trant - Christopher Copinger, Q.C. - Patrick Vincent FitzPatrick - John Fisher Murray - Anthony Richard Blake - John Blake Dillon, M.P. - Sir John Howley, Q.C.

Chapter IX. Hostile advance of Major Macbean and the 92nd Highlanders on Golden Bridge - General McMurdo - South Dublin Union - General Sir T. Larcom - The War Office demands that Golden Bridge Cemetery should surrender its rights - General Lord Langford - The Poor Law Commissioners - Reports from Dr. Hil, Sir Charles Cameron, and Dr. Mapother - Proclamation - Abraham Brewster - Order of the Privy Council.

Chapter X. The Cholera of 1867 - William Dargan - Visit of the Queen - Rev. Sir Christopher Bellew, Bart - John Dillon - The Bishop of Saldes - Ralph Walsh - Michael Murphy - George Wyse - Martin Crean - Mathias O’Kelly - John Lanigan, M.P. - John Reynolds, M.P. - Prof. Barry - The City Marshal - Alderman Devitt, J.P. - The O’Connell Crypt - Anecdotes - J. P. Organ - Lady Sheil - Sir Michael O’Loghlen - Michael Staunton - Frank Sullivan - Rev. Dr. Spratt - John Keegan Casey (‘Leo’) - His Funeral followed by 50,000 people - Joseph Downey, Poet.

Chapter XI. Conspiracy against Glasnevin Cemetery - Police Court Proceedings - “Cursed by he who moves my bones” - Arguments of Counsel - Judgement of the Court.

Chapter XII. Dr. Denis Phelan - John Edward Pigot - A Lord Mayor dies in office - James Duffy - Hon. Martin Ffrench - John Bourke, F.R.I.A. - Mr. Justice Keogh - A touching scene - Patrick Joseph Murray, M.D. - Lord Anglesey - Philip Lawless - W. J. Battersby - Surgeon O’Reilly - Lord Gerard - Wm. Juastin O’Driscoll and Daniel Maclise, R.A. - Dickens - Fr. Doran drowned - Fr. Fay - Laurence Waldron, D.L. - Sir John Gray, M.P. - Dr. M’Keever - Rev. James Gaffney, M.R.I.A., killed - The O’Connell Centenary - Matthew O’Connell, Q.C. - David FitzGerald, father and son.

Chapter XIII. Thomas Meagher, M.P. - Renewal of Hostilities between the Military and the Cemetery - The Local Government Board and the Cemetery - Thomas Neilson Underwood, B.L. - Thomas L. Stirling - Colonel John O’Mahony - Prof. B. Robertson - Rev. Thaddeus O’Malley.

Chapter XIV. Chief Justice Monahan - Michael Angelo Hayes, R.H.A. - Edward Hayes, R.H.A. - T. O’Meara - New Entrance and Mortuary Chapel built -Morgan Darcy - James Scully - John Quinlan - Surgeon Tyrell, R.C.R.S.I. - Sir Dominic Corrigan, Bart., M.D. - Dr,. O’Leary, M.P. - Helena Norton - Frank Morgan - Wm. Rickard Burke, Inspector General, R.I.C. - Vesey Daly - Sheehan and the Mail - Richard O’Gorman - Thomas Matthew Ray - Dr. Robert Cryan, F.R.C.S.I. - Rev. D. Laphen D.D. - Mr. Sergeant Heron - Dr. Thomas Willis - Capt. Morgan O’Connell, A.D.C. - Dr. Thomas Hayden, F.R.C.S.I. - Edmund Jordan, Q.C. - J. J. MacCarthy, R.H.A. - Dr. John King Forest.

Chapter XV. Burial of Denis Florence MacCarthy - His career - Assassination of Thomas H. Burke, Under Secretary for Ireland - Augustine Burke, R.H.A. - Frank Thorpe Porter - John Stewart Stevenson - John Douglas Piercey - “The Strollers Club”  and Thomas Fagan - John Cornelius O’Callaghan - General Andrew Brown, C.B. - His Coffin borne on a Gun-carriage - Robert Dwyer Joyce, M.D. - Inspector-General Williams - The Meade Monument - Morgan O’Connell.

Chapter XVI. Peter Paul MacSwiney - James Stannus Hughes, F.R.C.S.I. - Michael O’Shaughnessy, Q.C. - Alexander Martin Sullivan - P. J. Smyth, M.P. - Lord O’Hagan - Rev. D. W. Cahill, D.D. - Cardinal MacCabe, Archbishop of Dublin - Patrick J. Blake, Q.C. - Right Rev. Monsignor Farrell - Professor Kavanagh - Right Hon. Sir John Lentaigne - James Burke, A.B. - Martin Haverty, the Historian - Joseph Havery, the Artist - Lady Kane, nee Kate Baily - Dr. Daniel Brady, J.P. - Wm. Bannon - John Nolan - Lady Murray - Prof. Campbell - Rev. P. Yorke, M.R.I.A. - Leonard Morrogh.

Chapter XVII. Edmund Dwyer Gray, M.P. - Wm. R. Dunbar, M.A. - John Leopold Dunbar, B.A. - Wm. Maunsell Hennessy, R.I.A. - Lord FitzGerald - Very Rev. Daniel Fogarty - Sir Robert Kane, F.R.S. - Sir John Bradstreet - William Woodlock, Police Magistrate - Mr. Justice O’Hagan - Thomas Ryan - Rev. C. P. Meehan - Dr. Stephen M. MacSwiney - Very Rev. Thomas Canon Pope - Sir William Carroll, M.D. - Alderman Dennehy.

Chapter XVIII. The O’Gorman Mahony - John Casey, F.R.S., LL.D., V.P.R.I.A. - Prof. Stewart, M.A. - P. W. Nally - Rt. Hon. Stephen Woulfe Flanagan - A Survivor of the Cavalry Charge at Balaclava - Dr. Peter Shannon - Commissioner John George McCarthy - Alderman Campbell - Barry Sullivan - Charles Stuart Parnell - Lady Keenan - Sir James Mackey - “Judge Hunter” - Rev. Brinsley Sheridan - Rev. J. L. O’Toole - Sarah Atkinson - Dr. Atkinson - Arthur J. Mayne, R.H.A. - Henry Loftus Robinson, R.H.A. - Rev. James Healy - Sir Patrick Keenan.

Chapter XIX. De Blaquiere Family - Very Rev. Canon Daniel, P.P. - Rt. Rev. Monsignor Kennedy, P.P., V.G. - William J. FitzPatrick, LL. D., F.R.S. - Most Rev.Dr. Duggan, Bishop of Clonfert - William McLaughlin, Q.C. - Sir Patrick Maxwell - Thomas F. O’Connell - Very Rev. Fr. Bennett, D.D., O.C.C. - John Hooper - Hugh Tarpey - Father Norton, S.J. - Mrs. Delia Parnell - Fr. Gaffney, S.J. - Rev. Thomas Kelly, S. J. - Sir John T. Gilbert - Dr. Thomas FitzPatrick - Edward Fottrell, J.P. - Hon. Mrs. Vincent Corbett - Dr. Michael A. Boyd - William Hague, Architect6

Chapter XX New Offices, 4 Rutland Square - Purchasing and Enclosing of additional Ground to Glasnevin Cemetery - Extend of the Cemetery - Grants to Charitable Educational Institutions - Proposal to include the Cemetery, by Dublin Corporation, in city Boundaries Extension Bill - Action of the Irish Valuation Department - Imposition of heavy Taxation on the Cemetery.