This is a list of notable people buried in Glasnevin Cemetery.
Thomas Ashe – died on hunger strike in 1917Kevin 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 writerSir Alfred Chester Beatty – art collectorBrendan Behan – author and playwrightProfessor Thomas Bodkin – lawyer, art historian, art collector and curatorHarry Boland – friend of Michael Collins and anti-Treaty politician. Image of Harry Boland's graveChristy Brown – writer of My Left Foot and subject of the film of the same nameFather Francis Browne – Jesuit priest and photographer who took the last known photographs of RMS TitanicCathal Brugha – first President of Dáil Éireann (January – April 1919) Image of Cathal Brugha's graveThomas Henry Burke – Permanent Under Secretary to Chief Secretary for Ireland Lord Frederick Cavendish, victim with his master of the Phoenix Park murders in 1882Sergeant James Byrne – Victoria Cross recipient (Indian Mutiny)Sir Roger Casement – human rights campaigner turned revolutionary, executed by the British in 1916 2 Image of Casement graveRobert Erskine Childers – Irish Nationalist and writer, executed by the Irish Free State government during the Irish Civil War. Erskine Childers' grave, located in the Republican PlotMary "Molly" Alden Childers – Irish Nationalist and wife of Robert Erskine ChildersJ. J. Clancy – Irish Nationalist MP (1847–1928)Michael Collins – assassinated republican leader, Anglo-Irish Treaty signatory and first internationally recognised Irish head of governmentDáithí Ó Conaill – a founder member of the Provisional Irish Republican ArmyRoddy Connolly – socialist politician and son of James ConnollyAndy Cooney – Irish republicanJohn Philpot Curran – patriotic barrister, renowned wit, lawyer on behalf of Wolfe Tone and other United Irishmen, Sarah Curran's fatherWilliam Dargan – Ireland's rail pioneerCharlotte Despard – suffragistPrivate Thomas Duffy – VC recipient (Indian Mutiny)Éamon de Valera – 3rd President of Ireland (1959–1973) and dominant Irish leader of 20th centurySinéad de Valera – wife of Éamon de Valera, buried in the same plotAnne Devlin – famed housekeeper of Robert EmmetJohn Devoy – Fenian leader Image of John Devoy's grave.John Blake Dillon – Irish writer and politicianMartin Doherty – IRA memberFrank Duff – founder of the Legion of MaryEdward Duffy – Irish Fenian, Irish Republican BrotherhoodJames Fitzmaurice – aviation pioneerFrancis Gleeson – Chaplain to the British Army and the Irish Free StateEdmund Dwyer Gray – Irish 19th century MP, son of Sir John GraySir John Gray – Irish 19th century MP. Image of Sir John Gray's gravestoneMaud Gonne – nationalist campaigner, love of W.B. Yeats's life, famed beauty and mother of Nobel and Lenin Peace Prize winner Seán MacBride, who is also buried in the grave Image of Maud Gonne & Seán MacBride's graveArthur Griffith – President of Dáil Éireann (January – August 1922)Joseph Patrick Haverty – Irish painterTim Healy – 1st Governor-General of the Irish Free State. image of Tim Healy's grave.Denis Caulfield Heron – lawyer and politicianGerard Manley Hopkins – poetPeadar Kearney – composer of the Irish National Anthem, Amhrán na bhFiannLuke Kelly – singer and folk musician, founding member of The DublinersKitty Kiernan – fiancée of Michael CollinsJames 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 InternationalEdward MacCabe – late 19th century Cardinal Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland Image of the elaborate monument to Cardinal MacCabe.Dick McKee – member of the Irish Republican Army during the War of IndependenceTerence MacManus – Irish rebel and shipping agentJames Patrick Mahon – Irish nationalist politician and mercenaryCountess Constance Markievicz – first woman elected to the British House of Commons and a minister in the first Irish governmentManchester 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 executionLance 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 O'Connell's tomb under the specially built round tower O'Connell's tomb interiorPatrick 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-keeperJeremiah 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 BlueshirtsThomas O'Hagan, 1st Baron O'Hagan – Lord Chancellor of IrelandKevin O'Higgins – assassinated Vice-President of the Executive CouncilSeán T. O'Kelly – 2nd President of Ireland (1945–1959)John O'Mahony – a founder of the Irish Republican BrotherhoodJohn O' Leary – poetJames O'Mara – nationalist leader and member of the First DáilHenry O'Neill – painter and archaeologistChristopher 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 1891Patrick (P.J.) Ruttledge – Minister in Éamon de Valera's early governmentsDaniel D. Sheehan – first independent Irish labour MPHanna Sheehy-Skeffington – founder of Irish Women's Franchise LeagueSergeant Philip Smith – VC recipient (Crimean War)Chief Boatswain's Mate John Sullivan – Royal Navy VC recipient (Crimean War)Patrick James Smyth – journalist and politicianDavid P. Tyndall – prominent Irish businessman who transformed the grocery businessWilliam Joseph Walsh – Roman Catholic Archbishop of DublinBilly Whelan – Manchester United footballer who died the Munich air disaster of 1958
