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.
• 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) '
• 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
• James Byrne – sergeant, British Army; Victoria Cross recipient (Indian Mutiny)
• Sir Roger Casement – human rights campaigner turned revolutionary, executed by the British in 1916 ² '
• Erskine Childers – Irish Nationalist and writer, executed by the Irish Free State government during the Irish Civil War. '
• 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
• 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
• Éamon de Valera – 3rd President of Ireland (1959–1973) and dominant Irish leader of the 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
• Edward Duffy – Irish Fenian, Irish Republican Brotherhood
• Thomas Duffy – private, Madras Army; VC recipient (Indian Mutiny)
• Madeleine ffrench-Mullen – Irish revolutionary
• 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
• Maud Gonne – nationalist campaigner, famed beauty and mother of Nobel and Lenin Peace Prize winner Seán MacBride, who is also buried in the grave '
• Edmund Dwyer Gray – Irish 19th century MP, son of Sir John Gray
• Sir John Gray – Irish 19th century MP. '
• 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
• Sandie Jones – singer who represented Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1972
• 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 and 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 .
• Terence MacManus – Irish rebel and shipping agent
• James Patrick Mahon – Irish nationalist politician and mercenary
• 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
• Countess Constance Markievicz – first woman elected to the British House of Commons and a minister in the first Irish government
• Dick McKee – member of the Irish Republican Army during the War of Independence
• Dermot Morgan – Irish satirist and star of Father Ted. Cremated in Glasnevin and interred at Deansgrange Cemetery.
• James Murray – lance corporal, British Army; VC recipient (First Boer War)
• Kate Cruise O'Brien – writer and publisher (not to be confused with Kate O'Brien, buried in Faversham Cemetery, England)
• Dáithí Ó Conaill – a founder member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
• 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
• Elizabeth O'Farrell – Irish revolutionary and member of Cumann na mBan
• 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'Leary – an Irish republican and a leading Fenian.
• John O'Mahony – a founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood
• Ernie O'Malley – anti-Treaty IRA leader during the Irish Civil War
• 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
• Thomas Matthew Ray – Irish nationalist
• Patrick Joseph (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
• Philip Smith – lance sergeant, British Army; VC recipient (Crimean War)
• Patrick James Smyth – journalist and politician
• John Sullivan – chief boatswain's mate, Royal Navy; VC recipient (Crimean War)
• 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