Glasnevin Cemetery
Over 1.5 million burials on 124 acres — Collins, de Valera, Markievicz, and 800,000 unnamed Famine dead in the same ground.
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Daniel O'Connell opened this non-denominational cemetery in 1832 because Irish Catholics had nowhere legal to bury their dead with dignity — a direct response to Penal Law restrictions. It remains an active burial site, making it a continuous, working record of Irish life from the 1840s Famine through independence.
What to look for
- The O'Connell Tower, the cemetery's landmark structure visible across the grounds
- The graves of Michael Collins, Éamon de Valera, Charles Stewart Parnell, and Constance Markievicz
- The section containing unmarked mass graves holding nearly 800,000 Famine victims from the Great Famine of the 1840s
Guided tours of the grounds depart from the on-site visitor centre.
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More to see in Dublin
- Aviva StadiumOne 51,711-seat bowl jointly owned by rugby and football — two governing bodies, one ground, no separate home for either.
- Dublin CastleThe river that gave Dublin its name still flows beneath your feet — and the building above it ran Ireland for 750 years.
- Croke ParkThe fourth-largest stadium in Europe holds 82,300 people — almost entirely for sports most of the world has never watched.
- National Library of IrelandIreland's paper memory — manuscripts, photographs, and newspapers free to open on the spot.
- St Patrick's CathedralIreland's national cathedral has never had a bishop — that role belongs to the rival church 400 metres up the road.
- Spire of DublinA 120-metre stainless-steel pin planted on the exact spot where an IRA bomb in 1966 — and a controlled demolition six days later — erased Nelson's Pillar.