This is a list of notable people buried in Glasnevin Cemetery.
- Thomas Ashe â died on hunger strike in 1917
- Kevin Barry â 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 Béaslaàâ Easter Rising survivor turned writer
- Sir Alfred Chester Beatty â art collector
- Brendan Behan â author and playwright
- Professor Thomas Bodkin â lawyer, art historian, art collector and curator
- Harry Boland â friend of Michael Collins and anti-Treaty politician.
- Christy Brown â writer of My Left Foot and subject of the film of the same name
- Father Francis Browne â Jesuit priest and photographer who took the last known photographs of RMS Titanic
- Cathal Brugha â first President of Dáil ÃÂireann (January â April 1919) '
- Thomas Henry Burke â Permanent Under Secretary to Chief Secretary for Ireland Lord Frederick Cavendish, victim with his master of the Phoenix Park murders in 1882
- James Byrne â sergeant, British Army; Victoria Cross recipient (Indian Mutiny)
- Sir Roger Casement â human rights campaigner turned revolutionary, executed by the British in 1916 <sup>2</sup> '
- Erskine Childers â Irish Nationalist and writer, executed by the Irish Free State government during the Irish Civil War. '
- Mary "Molly" Alden Childers â Irish Nationalist and wife of Erskine Childers
- J. J. Clancy â Irish Nationalist MP (1847âÂÂ1928)
- Michael Collins â republican leader, Anglo-Irish Treaty signatory and first internationally recognised Irish head of government
- Roddy Connolly â socialist politician and son of James Connolly
- Andy Cooney â Irish republican
- John Philpot Curran â patriotic barrister, renowned wit, lawyer on behalf of Wolfe Tone and other United Irishmen, Sarah Curran's father
- Michael Cusack â founder of the Gaelic Athletic Association
- William Dargan â Ireland's rail pioneer
- Peggy Dell â Irish singer and pianist
- Charlotte Despard â suffragist
- ÃÂamon de Valera â 3rd President of Ireland (1959âÂÂ1973) and dominant Irish leader of the 20th century
- Sinéad de Valera â wife of ÃÂamon de Valera, buried in the same plot
- Anne Devlin â famed housekeeper of Robert Emmet
- John Devoy â Fenian leader '
- John Blake Dillon â Irish writer and politician
- Martin Doherty â IRA member
- Frank Duff â founder of the Legion of Mary
- Edward Duffy â Irish Fenian, Irish Republican Brotherhood
- Thomas Duffy â private, Madras Army; VC recipient (Indian Mutiny)
- Madeleine ffrench-Mullen â Irish revolutionary
- James Fitzmaurice â aviation pioneer
- Ethna Gaffney â first female professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
- Francis Gleeson â Chaplain to the British Army and the Irish Free State
- Maud Gonne â 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 â Irish 19th century MP, son of Sir John Gray
- Sir John Gray â Irish 19th century MP. '
- Arthur Griffith â President of Dáil ÃÂireann (January â August 1922)
- Joseph Patrick Haverty â Irish painter
- Tim Healy â 1st Governor-General of the Irish Free State. '
- Denis Caulfield Heron â lawyer and politician
- Gerard Manley Hopkins â poet
- Sandie Jones â singer who represented Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1972
- Peadar Kearney â composer of the Irish National Anthem, Amhrán na bhFiann
- Luke Kelly â singer and folk musician, founding member of The Dubliners
- Kitty Kiernan â fiancée of Michael Collins
- James Larkin â 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 â violinist, conductor, composer and music director at the Theatre Royal, Dublin
- Josie MacAvin â Oscar- and Emmy-winning set decorator and art director
- Seán MacBride â founder of Clann na Poblachta and a founder-member of Amnesty International
- Edward MacCabe â late 19th century Cardinal Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland .
- Terence MacManus â Irish rebel and shipping agent
- James Patrick Mahon â Irish nationalist politician and mercenary
- Manchester Martyrs â 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 â first woman elected to the British House of Commons and a minister in the first Irish government
- Dick McKee â member of the Irish Republican Army during the War of Independence
- Dermot Morgan â Irish satirist and star of Father Ted. Cremated in Glasnevin and interred at Deansgrange Cemetery.
- James Murray â lance corporal, British Army; VC recipient (First Boer War)
- Kate Cruise O'Brien â writer and publisher (not to be confused with Kate O'Brien, buried in Faversham Cemetery, England)
- DáithààConaill â a founder member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
- Daniel O'Connell â Irish political leader from 1820s to 1840s
- Patrick O'Donnell the Avenger â 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 â Irish military historian, writer, and former UN peace-keeper
- Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa â Fenian leader. Patrick Pearse's oration at his funeral in 1915 has gone down in history.
- Eoin O'Duffy â Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army and leader of The Blueshirts
- Elizabeth O'Farrell â Irish revolutionary and member of Cumann na mBan
- Thomas O'Hagan, 1st Baron O'Hagan â Lord Chancellor of Ireland
- Kevin O'Higgins â assassinated Vice-President of the Executive Council
- Seán T. O'Kelly â 2nd President of Ireland (1945âÂÂ1959)
- John O'Leary â an Irish republican and a leading Fenian.
- John O'Mahony â a founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood
- Ernie O'Malley â anti-Treaty IRA leader during the Irish Civil War
- James O'Mara â nationalist leader and member of the First Dáil
- Henry O'Neill â painter and archaeologist
- Christopher Palles â Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, often described as "the greatest of Irish judges"
- Charles Stewart Parnell â dominant Irish political leader from 1875 to 1891
- Thomas Matthew Ray â Irish nationalist
- Patrick Joseph (P.J.) Ruttledge â minister in ÃÂamon de Valera's early governments
- Daniel D. Sheehan â first independent Irish labour MP
- Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington â founder of Irish Women's Franchise League
- Philip Smith â lance sergeant, British Army; VC recipient (Crimean War)
- Patrick James Smyth â journalist and politician
- John Sullivan â chief boatswain's mate, Royal Navy; VC recipient (Crimean War)
- David P. Tyndall â prominent Irish businessman who transformed the grocery business
- William Joseph Walsh â Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin
- Billy Whelan â Manchester United footballer who died in the Munich air disaster of 1958
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