Here Lies: A Guide to Irish Graves"Maeve Friel takes her readers down remote country lanes and up windswept hills to visit the graves of more than 500 of Ireland's famous, infamous, heroic, tragic and eccentric dead." --Back cover. |
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Page 52
... killed during the Civil War . With Arthur Griffith , Collins had taken part in the negotiations which led to the signing of the Anglo - Irish treaty in December 1921. At the treaty debates the following month , he argued for its ...
... killed during the Civil War . With Arthur Griffith , Collins had taken part in the negotiations which led to the signing of the Anglo - Irish treaty in December 1921. At the treaty debates the following month , he argued for its ...
Page 186
... killed when he fell from the mast of the schooner on the very eve his ship was returning to Cushendun . When she heard the news that her lover had been killed , the girl disappeared and was found dead the following morning lying on the ...
... killed when he fell from the mast of the schooner on the very eve his ship was returning to Cushendun . When she heard the news that her lover had been killed , the girl disappeared and was found dead the following morning lying on the ...
Page 237
... killed in the commotion . To lose one wife in such circumstances would be bad enough but worse was to come ... MacNaghten began to court Mary Anne Knox , the fifteen - year - old niece of Andrew Knox , MP for Donegal . He certainly knew ...
... killed in the commotion . To lose one wife in such circumstances would be bad enough but worse was to come ... MacNaghten began to court Mary Anne Knox , the fifteen - year - old niece of Andrew Knox , MP for Donegal . He certainly knew ...
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1798 rebellion Abbey Achill ancient Armagh Ballitore battle became Bishop body British burial place buried in St Captain captured carved Castle cathedral Catholic Celtic cemetery century Church of Ireland churchyard coffin commemorates Connacht Cork County Creggan cross dead Deansgrange death Dermot Derry died Dublin emigrants Emmet's English epitaph erected executed famine father Fenian Fianna Fáil Frank O'Connor Gaelic Gaelic League Glasnevin gravestone graveyard grounds Gweedore hanged headstone Henry Hill inscribed inscription Irish island James John Kilkenny killed King land later Limerick lived Lord Lough Mary mausoleum memorial Michael miles monument murder Newgrange Norman O'Brien Patrick plaque plot poem poet President of Ireland priest rebellion remains returned to Ireland ruined Saint Sean ship Sinn Féin Skibbereen slab St Patrick's St Patrick's Cathedral stone story Thomas tomb tombstone Ulster United Irishmen vault victims wall Waterford Wexford Wicklow wife William wrote Yeats young