Militaria Archive

Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland

The graves of many key figures in the struggle for Irish Independence through several centuries. Including Daniel O’ Connell, Michael Collins, Charles Stewart Parnell, Éamon de Valera, Arthur Griffith, Countess Markievicz, Michael Cusack, Robert Erskine Childers, Roger Casement, Frank Ryan, Sean Devoy, Cathal Brugha, James Stephens along with many Dublin Brigade Irish Republican Army veterans of the Easter Rising 1916, the Irish War of Independence (1919 - 1921) and Irish Civil War (1921 - 1923).

'Ua Rathghaille' (The O'Rahilly). Commander Óglaigh na hÉireann. Fatally wounded by the British Army during the street fighting of the Easter Rising 1916. Found with a handwritten note to his wife. Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland.
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