Come Here To Me!

'The Champion of Liberty' Daniel O'Connell.

Congrats to all at the Glasnevin Cemetery on their incredible victory at the THEA ceremony in Los Angeles. The Themed Entertainment and Amusement prize is about as much of an endorsement as any attraction can aspire to.

I really enjoyed Shane MacThomais’ tour of the cemetery, and his work on Glasnevin in his book Ireland’s Necropolis showed a clear passion for the cemetery, the final resting place of everyone from Frank Ryan to William Martin Murphy. Great praise is due to all at the Glasnevin Trust, and indeed the whole team at Glasnevin.

There are over 1.2 million people buried in the cemetery, including my own great-grandfather, a victim of what Connolly termed the ‘conscription by starvation’ of WWI who died a as a result of war injuries at home in Dublin, a veteran of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers . Like so many others in Glasnevin, he was buried in a pauper’s grave. The team at the cemetery tell the stories of not just The Big Fellas and The Long Fellows, but those forgotten men and women too. For that, Dublin is indebted.

Well done to all involved in bringing the prize to Dublin.

Glasnevin Museum in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, received a prestigious international THEA Award, the Oscars for Themed Entertainment and Amusement, at a glittering ceremony in Los Angeles.

It is the first cemetery to be rewarded for excellence in creating a compelling educational, historical and entertainment project.

-Full news report here.

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Ci did a nice piece on the cemetery, which is over here. He looked at some of the most high profile graves in Glasnevin.

I’ve this piece on the Pearse Street fire disaster. Firefighters Nugent, Malone and MacArdle are all buried in Glasnevin.