Glasnevin Cemetery: Memories, Monuments and Memorials

Michael Hall

• 📅Tuesday, October 7, 2025
• 🕥10:30 – 11:30
• 🏟Newtownpark Pastoral Centre (map)

Glasnevin Cemetery will be two hundred years old in 2032 and has over 1.3 million interments, nearly as many as the living population of Dublin today. As Ireland’s national cemetery, its story mirrors the history of its time. This talk, which will include elements of a personal memoir, will treat of the cemetery’s establishment and evolution and reference some of its most notable interments and monuments.

Michael Hall is a retired Technological University of Dublin lecturer, a published historian, and has a personal connection with the cemetery, having been reared within its walls in a lodge where generations of his family lived and worked as Head Gardiners to the Dublin Cemeteries Committee.