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Encyclopedia > Burials in Glasnevin Cemetery
Éamon de Valera's grave
His wife, Sinéad, and son, Brian are buried there also.
A close up view of the de Valera gravestone
Charles Stewart Parnell's gravestone
Though a member of the Church of Ireland, Parnell was buried in Glasnevin in view of its status - at least in the eyes of those who followed him in politics - as the de facto national cemetery
Monument to Ireland's war dead in World War I
The monument lists those buried in the cemetery who were killed in Irish Regiments of the British Army
Glasnevin gravestones
Mid nineteenth century plain gravestone (centre) surrounded by versions of celtic crosses, which became the fashion in the late nineteenth century.

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