Ireland's grandest cemetery | Man shouts at funeral | Glasnevin Part 1

Prior to the establishment of Glasnevin Cemetery, Irish Catholics had no cemeteries of their own in which to bury their dead and, as the repressive Penal Laws of the eighteenth century placed heavy restrictions on the public performance of Catholic services, it had become normal practice for Catholics to conduct a limited version of their own funeral services in Protestant churchyards or graveyards. This situation continued until an incident at a funeral held at St. Kevin's Churchyard in 1823 provoked public outcry when a Protestant sexton reprimanded a Catholic priest for proceeding to perform a limited version of a funeral mass. The outcry prompted Daniel O'Connell, champion of Catholic rights, to launch a campaign and prepare a legal opinion proving that there was actually no law passed forbidding praying for a dead Catholic in a graveyard. O'Connell pushed for the opening of a burial ground in which both Irish Catholics and Protestants could give their dead dignified burial.

Glasnevin Cemetery was consecrated and opened to the public for the first time on 21 February 1832. The first burial, that of eleven-year-old Michael Carey from Francis Street in Dublin, took place on the following day in a section of the cemetery known as Curran's Square. The cemetery was initially known as Prospect Cemetery, a name chosen from the townland of Prospect, which surrounded the cemetery lands. Besides the famous interred at Glasnevin, nearly 800,000 people have been buried in Glasnevin in unmarked mass graves due to the death toll from the Great Famine of the 1840s and a later cholera epidemic.

Originally covering nine acres of ground, the area of the cemetery has now grown to approximately 124 acres. This includes its expansion on the southern side of the Finglas Road with the section called St. Paul's. The option of cremation has been provided since March 1982.

O'Connell Tower in Dublin was built in 1855 to commemorate the Irish nationalist leader, Daniel O'Connell.
He led the campaign to end religious discrimination against Catholics, who had few rights in early 19th Century Ireland.
The tower shut in 1971 when it was damaged by a loyalist bomb but recently it has undergone extensive renovations.
The monument stands at 55m (180ft) in Glasnevin Cemetery in north County Dublin, where it commands "breathtaking" 360 degree views of the city and neighbouring counties.

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[STHFGDBY]

My Parents and other relatives and my childhood neighbors are interred in this cemetery. It's well worth a visit and is said to be one of the most haunted in the world. I've never experienced any spooks on any of my hundreds of visits. The history of this place is extraordinary. There are towers set into the perimeter walls with arrow ports, during the cemetery's early history, there were men stationed in or on top of the towers. Their purpose was to defend the cemetery from grave robbers, or body snatchers as some referred to them as. The more recent sad story attached to the cemetery was the well known tour guide that knew absolutely everything about the history of the cemetery. One day he didn't turn up for work. They looked back at the CCTV cameras and were shocked to see him enter the cemetery in the darkened early hours carrying a rope. He waved at the cameras as he entered. During a search they found his body. It's sad that when people suffer a mental illness such as depression, which I assume he suffered from, that they feel that the only way to end their pain is to check out. May he R.I.P. There are videos of him on YouTube doing his tour guide routine.

[sandyduncan]

Perfect cemetery weather is right! Glad I’ve got my hot tea to keep me cozy as I watch 😊. Thanks very much

[marthavanbeek-putters]

The piëta statue was beautiful. The real statue is in Rome in the San Pietro. I’ve been there several times. Martha

[edl]

I hope someday you aren’t peering through one of the crypts and an eye is peering back a you!! 👻

[СолнечныйПарус-рщ]

Perhaps there are still eccentrics, who kiss the ring at the effigy of the reverend. Who knows who knows. The world is full of strange wonders.😵‍💫🙄

[phyllisshieldsjones]

It's a beautiful cemetery but huge

[sandyduncan]

Gosh if there’s ever a place where political & religious differences don’t matter it’s a cemetery 🙏

[LazyDays]

What a well kept cemetery, puts some of ours to shame in the UK.

[DrummrBy]

William Dargan was an Irish Engineer and built Irelands first railway between Dublin and Dún Laoghaire in 1833

[jojoyoung]

Thankyou for sharing, there is some magnificent headstones .

[catherinelennon]

Grew up not far from there, we played there as kids, most of my family going back to 1895 are buried there, the latest was my lovely mother last Christmas, thank you for your respectful video.

[jojoyoung]

There’s a rhyme:
Mathew, mark, Luke and John
Bless the bed that I lie on,
2 Angels at my head and 2angels at my feet,
They will watch me while I sleep.

[allisondrummond]

Wow the architecture is stunning on the crypts lovely day for a cemetery walk

[theresaclancy]

Check out the cemetery under a church in CO. Wexford. ...an Order of Sisters of Perpetual Adoration... St Aidans. Its amazing.

[theresaclancy]

I grew up in a small town where Lizzy Borden's Irish maid is buried, the first Mayor of New York and Pilgrims of the May Flower are laid to rest..

[rangeroverl]

Some wonderful memorials there . Thank you 👍

[marionjackel]

Wonderful video. Thank you! Would love to visit Glasnevin one day. A while ago I watched a lovely documentary about Glasnevin, it's called "One Million Dubliners". I can highly recommend it.

[suduhm]

I love your videos sooo much, but I found myself having to pause, and hone in on details of a stone that you passed by, so quickly. There was so much there!! I know you’re trying to show so much to us, and have a lot of area to cover, with limited time…..but if you could just hover a few more seconds, on something you find interesting…it would give your viewers the opportunity to find out more about that. You breezed by so many neat things, that I would have like to see…but I get it. You’re trying to show us the whole place. I truly appreciate everything you do!!! Thank you!!

[cathybrown]

That was the most well maintained cemetery I have ever seen

[traciehigginsChaCha]

This place is incredible and the weather so perfect. I love this kind of weather misery loves company? I could listen to you say murder over and over such a wonderful accent. Well done on this one stunning❣️