The Irish standard., 1900-11-17
Distinguished >lrishmen Sleep in
the Campo Santo.
RESTING PLACE OF TaB LIBERATOR
Some Eminent Non Catholics
3 Among the Dead.
sCoNNELL's CONSPICUOUS MONUMENT

List Of Those Who We're Active
on LIES Stage.
A fascinating work just issued is the
sHistory of the Dublin Catholic Gem
4eteries," by William ]. Fitzpatrick, LII.
D., continued and edited by his son.
The history of Glasnevin Cemetery is
a brief one, for there were no Catholic
cemeteries in Ireland before 1925.
Nevertheless the pages of the volume
are filled with the names of the dis
tinguished Catholic dead who have been
laid to rest in this Dublin campo san
to. These names form monument of
the vigor of Catholic life in Ireland
during the last eighty years. Before
that time Irish Catholics had no ceme-
teries for their dead. Their MANNED
funeral rites could only take place in
Protestant churchyards, where the
Catholic burial service was illegal.
But Daniel O'Connell changed all that
The interrupted ministration Of Bish-
Op Blake at the funeral of Mr.. Darcy,
in st. Kevin's churchyard, Dublin, in
1923, was the cause Of great indigna-
!Stien, in the public mind. O'Connell
re-established the Catholic Association
in the same year, and prepared legal
opinion to show that no law could
prevent a priest from praying for a
dead Catholic in a churchyard. Thanks
to O'Connell and his association, an
..Act for the Easement of Burial Bills"
passed in 1924. Next year, under the
auspices Of the Catholic Association,
site for a Catholic cemetery was
purchased at Golden Bridge, and a
committee appointed to conduct it's -af-
fairs without opposition. The adjoin-
ing land at Glasnevin was bought in
1881; further extensions were made in
1888 and 1886, and again in 1873, by
which year 295,Os1 burials had taken
place.
At O'Connell's desire no sect was ex-
cluded from the new cemetery, and
among the illustrious dead who lie at
Glasnevin are three great Protestant
names-Parnell, Curran and James
Clarence Mangan. Parnell died in the
thick Of his reverses at Brighton in
1891, while yet in his prime. His re-
mains were escorted to Dublin by his
friends and colleagues, and were inter-
red at Glasnevin in the presence Of
great crowds of the people over whom
he had gained SO wonderful mastery
and led SO brilliantly during the fifteen
years of his public life. Curran also
died in England-at London, in 1917.
He was laid to rest in Paddington
Cemetery and slept there till 1884.
The restoration of his body to Ireland
is referred to by the late Andrew
O'Dwyer ian orator of charm) in a
letter to the late w. j. Fitzpatrick.
OsDwyer wrote: Magnificent burial
places-in which the dust of Protest
ants might mingle, sanctified, too, by
the ceremonials of the faith in which
the followers Of each religion had lived
and died-wcre established in the me-
tropolis, and with funds raised from
the operations of this scheme the GEM
etery committee, among other honor
able works, undertook the pious duty
Of transferring the remains of Curran
to Ireland" The pilgrims to the tomb
where Mangan, the singer of Ozark
Rosaleen," was laid in midsummer,
4 1849, almost outnumber those who
hang their garlands on that of O'Con-
nell. Like Shelley's grave at Rome,
1 this is probably the most beloved spot
in the cemetery.
In June, 1s47, GIasneyin received
the embalmed corpse of Daniel O'Con-
nell from Rome. In 1860 the coffin
] was removed to the crypt beneath the
round tower erected to his memory.
Here Father Tom Burke. o. p, ad-
dressed the assembled crowd Of forty
thousand persons. In 1853 the earth
had enclosed Maurice O'Connell, who
had the "voice, manner and figure Of
his father" and five years later he was
followed in turn by his brother John,
the I4iberator's favorite. Stephen Cop
pinger died the day 'after attending
John O'Connell's funeral. He was one
Of the Liberator's lieutenants and a
member of the Catholic Association
Thomas Wyse, who married the daugh-
ter Of Lucien Bonaparte, sought