He was buried at the barracks until 1923 when his body was reinterred in the republican plot of Glasnevin Cemetery.

The start of the 20th century also saw the opening of a short lived railway station on the Drumcondra and North Dublin Link Railway line from Glasnevin Junction to Connolly Station ( then Amiens Street ).

By 822 Glasnevin, along with Grangegorman and Clonken or Clonkene ( now known as Deansgrange ), had become the farm for Christ Church Cathedral and it seems to have maintained this connection up to the time of the Reformation.

Glasnevin ended up under the jurisdiction of Finglas Abbey.

Large private developments have sprung up around the village, as with most areas of Dublin's north west ( e. g. Glasnevin ) and west ( e. g. Castleknock and Blanchardstown ).

The parade would line up at St. Stephens Green and march all the way to Glasnevin Cemetery.

O ' Reilly, named " Tony " after his mother's favourite brother, grew up on Griffith Avenue, a broad middle-class street, in the Drumcondra / Glasnevin area of Dublin.

Gavin was born in Dublin and grew up in Ballygall a neighbourhood located on Dublin's Northside located between Finglas and Glasnevin where he went to school.

Following a wake the previous night at Finglas Rd, hundreds turned up outside the house of his son Manus and traffic ground to a halt as family, friends and comrades-many of whom were waving the red flag of the Communist Party of Ireland-escorted O ' Riordan to Glasnevin Cemetery.

He built up a comprehensive collection of botanical books which he bequeathed to the Irish National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin.

Approaching Glasnevin via Phibsboro is what is known as Hart's Corner but which about a 200 years ago was called Glasmanogue, and was then a well-known stage on the way to Finglas.

Griffith Avenue, which runs through Glasnevin, Drumcondra and Marino.

* Jonathan Swift once lived across the road from the Glasnevin Model School, which is now the Glasnevin Educate Together School.

Today the Glasnevin site is the headquarters of the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland which has a satellite garden at Kilmcurragh in county Wicklow.

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 cemeteries.

This priory, the Priory of the Holy Trinity, became the wealthiest religious house in Ireland, holding over of property in County Dublin alone, most notable of which were the three home farms held at Grangegorman, Glasnevin and Clonken or Clonkene, now known as Deansgrange.

Tickell owned a house and small estate in Glasnevin on the banks of the River Tolka, which later became the site of the Botanic Gardens.

* April 10-At a republican demonstration ( commemorating the Easter Rising ) at the Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin, a communiqué from the IRA Army council was read out which announced that the " operation groups " of the IRA in Britain carried out their tasks in accordance with orders without causing casualties, the avoidance of which had been expressly ordered.

Glasnevin (, also known as Glas Naedhe, meaning " stream of O ' Naeidhe " after an ancient chieftain ) is a largely residential neighbourhood of Dublin, Ireland.

When Drumcondra began to rapidly expand in the 1870s, the residents of Glasnevin sought to protect their district and opposed being merged with the neighbouring suburb.

The Northside contains some of the most scenic and well-regarded areas of the city in both cultural and social terms and important areas such as Howth, Sutton, Clontarf, Glasnevin, Drumcondra, Malahide and Castleknock are located on the Northside of the city.

Being in the parish of Glasnevin it connects to the many family residents in the Mobhi Road / Homefarm Road / Ballymun Road / Botanic Road axis, while extending its influence to the edges of Phibsboro, North Circular Road, Glasnevin Avenue, Drumcondra Road and Griffith Avenue, thus taking in all the Iona and Drumcondra residents also.

It is bordered by Glasnevin to the north, Drumcondra to the east, Cabra to the north-west and Grangegorman to the west.

The Phibsborough area along with Glasnevin and Drumcondra relates to the north city Central Business District ( CBD ) very much in the way that Ranelagh, Rathmines and Harold's Cross relate to the south city CBD.

The Dublin Central constituency is located in the north inner city and suburbs of Dublin and encompasses an area to the north side of the river Liffey including: Stoneybatter, Mountjoy Square, Phibsboro, Cabra, Dorset Street, Henrietta Street, O ' Connell Street, Arbour Hill, Navan Road, Glasnevin, North Wall, East Wall and Drumcondra.

The constituency consists of largely working class areas such as East Wall, North Strand, Summerhill, Ballybough, Sheriff Street and Cabra with more suburban middle class Glasnevin and Lower Drumcondra on the northern fringes of the constituency.

Dublin also has many acclaimed dramatic, musical and operatic companies, including Festival Productions, Lyric Opera Productions, The Pioneers Musical & Dramatic Society, The Glasnevin Musical Society, Second Age Theatre Company, Opera Theatre Company, and Opera Ireland.

Glasnevin seems to have been founded by Saint Mobhi ( sometimes known as St Berchan ) in the sixth ( or perhaps fifth ) century as a monastery.

St. Columba of Iona is thought to have studied under St. Mobhi, but left Glasnevin following an outbreak of plague and journeyed north to open the House at Derry.

There is a long street ( Iona Road ) in Glasnevin named in his honour.

After raids on monasteries at Glendalough and Clondalkin, the monasteries at Glasnevin and Finglas were attacked and destroyed.

Laurence O ' Toole, Archbishop of Dublin, took responsibility for Glasnevin.

The returns of the church for 1326 stated that 28 tenants resided in Glasnevin.

During the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Catholic Church property and land was appropriated to the new Church of England, and monasteries ( including the one at Glasnevin ) were forcibly closed and fell into ruin.

Glasnevin had at this stage developed as a village, with its principal landmark and focal point being its " bull-ring " noted in 1542.

By 1667 Glasnevin had expanded-but not by very much ; it is recorded as containing 24 houses.

The development of the village was given a fresh impetus when Sir John Rogerson built his country residence, " The Glen " or " Glasnevin House " outside the village.

Lands at Glasnevin were leased to such families and a Protestant church was erected there in 1707.

In a letter, dated 1725 he described Glasnevin as " the receptacle for thieves and rogues.

Glasnevin became a township in 1878 and became part of the City of Dublin in 1900 under the Dublin Boundaries Act when it received the Royal Assent on August 6 1900.

Glasnevin was described as a parish in the barony of Coolock, pleasantly situated and the residence of many families of distinction.

On 1 June 1832, Charles Lindsay, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin and the William John released their holdings of Sir John Rogerson's lands at Glasnevin, ( including Glasnevin House ) to George Hayward Lindsay.

Although this does not specifically cite the marriage of George Hayward Lindsay to Lady Mary Catherine Gore, George Lindsay almost certainly came into the lands at Glasnevin as a result of his marriage.

George Hayward Lindsay's eldest son, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Gore Lindsay, was in possession of his father's lands at Glasnevin when the area began to be developed at the beginning of the twentieth-century.