Catholic problems with burial in Protestant graveyards - for a price.
Chapter I. The ivy-mantled walls of the ruined churches of Ireland, which form familiar and picturesque objects throughout the country, ser...
cemeteries
Conspiracy against the cemetery.
Chapter XI. The blow successfully dealt against Golden Bridge Cemetery in 1869 was followed a few months later by another aimed at the young...
Cholera of 1876, William Dargan, O'Connell Crypt.
Chapter X One of the heaviest years for burials was 1867, during the cholera epidemic, when in the month of January alone, 969 bodies were g...
Thomas Meagher, Renewal of Hostilities.
Chapter XIII. Thomas Meagher, M.P., Waterford, who died February 28th, 1874, was as remarkable for being a man of few words, as his son was ...
Lord Mayor dies in office, Surgeon O'Reilly, Fr. Doran drowned.
Chapter XII. Denis Phelan, M.D., Assistant Poor Law Commissioner, who was buried at Glasnevin on May 23rd, 1871, is described by Sir John Gr...
Michael Angelo Hayes, RHA, Sheehan and the Mail.
Chapter XIV. Some previous details have been necessarily tinged with a sombre hue; and the search-light may not come amiss in such furth...
Edmund Dwyer Gray, M.P., Mr. Justice O'Hagan, Alderman Dennehy.
Chapter XVII. On 31st March, 1888, the remains of Edmund Dwyer Gray - one of the Members of Parliament for Dublin - were consigned to Glasne...
Assassination of Thomas H. Burke, Under Secretary for Ireland.
Chapter XV. In April, 1882, Ireland was the poorer by what she could ill spare - a man of genius; her greatest poet (Moore alone excepted), ...
More famous names from the toll of the dead.
Chapter XVI. Few men were more prominent than Peter Paul MacSwiney, twice Lord Mayor of Dublin, Knight of St. Gregory the Great, and Chevali...
The O'Gorman Mahony, Survivor of Balaclava, Barry Sullivan, C. S. Parnell.
Chapter XVIII. "The banshee must have wailed last night in historic Clare; a chieftain of the high Milesian race has fallen," wrote a journa...
De Blaquiere Family, William J. Fitzpatrick, Mrs. Delia Parnell, Sir John T. Gilbert.
Chapter XIX. Several members of the De Blaquiere family were buried at Glasnevin. They were amongst the nearest relatives of Lord ...
Lord Wellesley insulted by Orangemen. Penal Days..
Chapter II. On 17th May, 1824, O'Connell censured, in characteristically caustic terms, the conduct of Archbishop Magee with respect to Cath...
Nwe offices, purchasing additional ground, imposition of heavy taxation.
Chapter XX. The tenure of the old offices on Ormond Quay, in which space was very limited, having only a few years to run, and accommodation...
Con Lyne, Thomas Kennedy and the uninscribed tomb, funeral of O'Connell.
Chapter V. Con Lyne, who had taken an active part in the final interment of Curran's remains and enjoyed life with a zest but slightly share...
Burial of Curran, Sir Robert Peel, "Watty" Cox.
Chapter IV. Curran fell with the leaves in October, 1817, and passed away in the bitter blasts which swept over the graveyard. "I fear you c...
More ground needed, purchase of ground at Glasnevin.
Chapter III. So great had been the demand for admission to Golden Bridge Cemetery as a last resting place, that O'Connell suggested the nece...
92nd Highlanders, South Dublin Union, War Office demands, Privy Council.
Chapter IX. One day, during the autumn of 1866, the Committee were surprised to receive from the quarters of the 92nd Highlanders, the follo...
"Zozimus", cholera epidemic, Captain Quill, Thomas Moore.
Chapter VI. Glasnevin Cemetery is somewhat cosmopolitan. The Italian and the Russian, the Gaul and the citizen of the world, are equally inc...
Gallagher the Ventriloquist, "Lord Coolamber", "The Harmonious Blacksmith."
Chapter VIII. On April 6, 1861, Dublin was agitated by a great tragedy The Rathmines omnibus, heavily laden, was about to ascend Portobello ...
Railway accident at Straffan, John Finlay, LL.D., the Ball before the Battle.
Chapter VII. On May the 24th, 1853, the right band of Frederick William Conway lost its cunning, and "the ablest man ever connected with the...
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.