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GlASnevin CeMeTeRy

On Thursday 16th January we visited Glasnevin cemetery in Glasnevin Co.Dublin.
Glasnevin cemetery has more than 1.5 million graves which is more than the population
of Dublin itself.

We started off with going around the cemetery museum. The museum was well built
and contained many statues that depicted fighting conditions in the Irish civil war. The
museum also had a lot of information about Michael Collins e.g. his background and
achievements for Ireland.
Soon we went around the actual cemetery itself we started off with the largest crypt/
grave in the museum which is Daniel O’Connell’s. Daniel O’Connell was the founder of
the Glasnevin cemetery and was a very well known personality. The cemetery guide
went through O’Connell’s history in detail.
Next we moved on to the unnamed graves which were of people who died during the
famine, these people were dumped in a single grave along with many other bodies
due to land shortage. Later we went to Eamon De Valera and his family’s graves which
were shockingly simple in comparison to many other in the cemetery, this happened
because he wanted the headstones to very simple.
Lastly we went to the most famous grave in the cemetery which was Michael Collins.
Michael Collins’s grave was the most visited in the cemetery by Irish people and
internationals to learn more about his struggle for Ireland.

Mariyam Haneen Mujeeb, Andrea Chan & Kate Agaba.

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