Georgian & Victorian · event 10 of 13

1854

Glasnevin Cemetery is a decade old. Daniel O’Connell’s cemetery, founded in 1832 so that Catholics could be buried with their own rites, is open to people of all religions and none. It now holds around 1.5 million people — more than the current population of Dublin.

The Georgian & Victorian era

  1. 1707
  2. 1745
  3. 1759
  4. 1782
  5. 1791
  6. 1798
  7. 1 January 1801
  8. 1803
  9. 1845
  10. 1854
  11. 1904
  12. 16 June 1904
  13. 1913

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