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Glasnevin Trust Museum

by | Jan 1, 2010 | asceGlasnevinEN

The Museum, operated by Glasnevin Trust, is in its second year of operation having been officially opened in April last year. The self-funded 11 million museum showcases the social, historical, political and artistic development of modern Ireland through the lives of...

Michael Collins

by | Jan 1, 2010 | asceGlasnevinEN, stories

1890 – 1922 | Revolutionary Leader and TD Michael Collins was born in Clonakilty, County Cork on the 16th October 1890. He was the youngest of eight children. As he grew up, Michael listened to stories of rebellion from his father and is reported to have said...

Republican Plot

by | Jan 1, 2010 | asceGlasnevinEN

Ashe, Thomas – died on hunger strike in 1917. Boland, Harry – friend of Michael Collins and anti-Treaty politician. Childers, Robert Erskine – Irish republican and Treaty signatory executed by the Irish Free State government during the Irish...

O’Connell Tower and Crypt

by | Jan 1, 2010 | asceGlasnevinEN

Officially opening of O’Connell’s crypt underneath O’Connel Tower.Former President Mary McAleese said it was a fitting tribute to his memory and an appropriate place for those of us who owed him so much to come in respectful pilgrimage. “Daniel...

John Stanislaus Joyce

by | Jan 1, 2010 | asceGlasnevinEN, stories

4/7/1849 – 29/12/1931 | Father of writer James JoyceWhen James Joyce introduced his future wife, Nora Barnacle, to his father John, the reply he got was said to be “well she will certainly cling to you!” Born in Cork in 1849, John Stanislaus Joyce was the only...

Charles Stewart Parnell

by | Jan 1, 2010 | asceGlasnevinEN

27/6/1846 – 6/10/1891 | Irish political leader and one of the most important figures in 19th century Ireland.Charles Stewart Parnell was born in Avondale, County Wicklow, on the 27th June 1846 into an affluent protestant family. He was the seventh child of John...