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[1]
• Harry Boland – friend of Michael Collins and anti-Treaty politician. 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) 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 Image of Casement grave
• 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 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 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. 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 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. 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 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.[2]
• 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