Burials in Glasnevin Cemetery



This is a list of notable people buried in Glasnevin Cemetery.
 * Thomas Ashe – died on hunger strike in 1917
 * Kevin Barry – medical student executed for his role in the Irish War of Independence. (His body was moved from Mountjoy Prison to Glasnevin in 2001, having been accorded a state funeral.)
 * Piaras Béaslaí – Easter Rising survivor turned writer
 * Sir Alfred Chester Beatty – art collector
 * Brendan Behan – author and playwright
 * Professor Thomas Bodkin – lawyer, art historian, art collector and curator
 * Harry Boland – friend of Michael Collins and anti-Treaty politician. [[Media:Harrybolglas.jpg| Image of Harry Boland's grave ]]
 * 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) [[Media:Brughaglas.jpg| Image of Cathal Brugha's grave ]]
 * Thomas Henry Burke – Permanent Under Secretary to Chief Secretary for Ireland Lord Frederick Cavendish, victim with his master of the Phoenix Park murders in 1882
 * Sergeant James Byrne – Victoria Cross recipient (Indian Mutiny)
 * Sir Roger Casement – human rights campaigner turned revolutionary, executed by the British in 1916 2 [[Media:Roger Casement-Grave in Glasnevin.jpg| Image of Casement grave ]]
 * Erskine Childers – Irish Nationalist and writer, executed by the Irish Free State government during the Irish Civil War. [[Media:Childersglas.jpg| Erskine Childers' grave, located in the Republican Plot ]]
 * Mary "Molly" Alden Childers – Irish Nationalist and wife of Erskine Childers
 * J. J. Clancy – Irish Nationalist MP (1847–1928)
 * Michael Collins – republican leader, Anglo-Irish Treaty signatory and 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
 * Michael Cusack – founder of the Gaelic Athletic Association.
 * William Dargan – Ireland's rail pioneer
 * Peggy Dell - Irish singer and pianist
 * Charlotte Despard – suffragist
 * Private Thomas Duffy – VC recipient (Indian Mutiny)
 * Éamon de Valera – 3rd President of Ireland (1959–1973) and dominant Irish 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 [[Media:Devoyglas.jpg| Image of John Devoy's grave. ]]
 * John Blake Dillon – Irish writer and politician
 * Martin Doherty – IRA member
 * Frank Duff – founder of the Legion of Mary
 * Edward Duffy – Irish Fenian, Irish Republican Brotherhood
 * James Fitzmaurice – aviation pioneer
 * Ethna Gaffney - first female professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
 * Francis Gleeson – Chaplain to the British Army and the Irish Free State
 * Edmund Dwyer Gray – Irish 19th century MP, son of Sir John Gray
 * Sir John Gray – Irish 19th century MP. [[Media:Johngreyglas.jpg| Image of Sir John Gray's gravestone ]]
 * Maud Gonne – nationalist campaigner, famed beauty and mother of Nobel and Lenin Peace Prize winner Seán MacBride, who is also buried in the grave [[Media:Maudgonneglas.jpg| Image of Maud Gonne & Seán MacBride's grave ]]
 * Arthur Griffith – President of Dáil Éireann (January – August 1922)
 * Joseph Patrick Haverty – Irish painter
 * Tim Healy – 1st Governor-General of the Irish Free State. [[Media:Healyglas.jpg| image of Tim Healy's grave. ]]
 * Denis Caulfield Heron – lawyer and politician
 * Gerard Manley Hopkins – poet
 * Peadar Kearney – composer of the Irish National Anthem, Amhrán na bhFiann
 * Luke Kelly – singer and folk musician, founding member of The Dubliners
 * Kitty Kiernan – fiancée of Michael Collins
 * James Larkin – Irish trade union leader and founder of the Irish Labour Party, Irish Transport & General Workers Union (ITGWU) and Irish Citizen Army
 * Richard Michael Levey – violinist, conductor, composer and music director at the Theatre Royal, Dublin
 * Josie MacAvin – Oscar- and Emmy-winning set decorator and art director
 * Seán MacBride – founder of Clann na Poblachta and a founder-member of Amnesty International
 * Edward MacCabe – late 19th century Cardinal Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland [[Media:Cardmccabeglas.jpg| Image of the elaborate monument to Cardinal MacCabe ]].
 * Dick McKee – 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 Markievicz – first woman elected to the British House of Commons and a minister in the first Irish government
 * Manchester Martyrs – cenotaph honouring 3 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
 * Lance Corporal James Murray – VC recipient (First Boer War)
 * Dermot Morgan – Irish satirist and star of Father Ted. Cremated in Glasnevin and interred at Deansgrange Cemetery.
 * Kate Cruise O'Brien – writer and publisher (This is not Kate O'Brien who is buried in Faversham Cemetery, England.)
 * Daniel O'Connell – Irish political leader from 1820s to 1840s.
 * Patrick O'Donnell the Avenger – executed in 1883 in London for the assassination of the co-conspirator turncoat of the Phoenix Park murder, James Carey. A memorial in his honour stands in Glasnevin.
 * Patrick Denis O'Donnell – 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
 * Ernie O'Malley - anti-Treaty IRA leader during the Irish Civil War
 * John O' Leary – an Irish republican and a leading Fenian.
 * James O'Mara – nationalist leader and member of the First Dáil
 * Henry O'Neill – painter and archaeologist
 * Christopher Palles, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, often described as "the greatest of Irish judges"
 * 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
 * Sergeant Philip Smith – VC recipient (Crimean War)
 * Chief Boatswain's Mate John Sullivan – Royal Navy VC recipient (Crimean War)
 * Patrick James Smyth – journalist and politician
 * David P. Tyndall – prominent Irish businessman who transformed the grocery business
 * William Joseph Walsh – Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin
 * Billy Whelan – Manchester United footballer who died in the Munich air disaster of 1958