Cemetery: "Historic Graves in Glasnevin Cemetery" Tidbits *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Dublin Index Copyright ************************************************ File contributed by: C. Hunt TIDBITS FROM "HISTORIC GRAVES IN GLASNEVIN CEMETERY" by R.J. O'Duffy, Published in 1915. page 7 THE FIRST INTERMENT. MICHAEL CAREY, of Francis Street, Dublin, was the first person interred in this cemetery. So runs the inscription on the stone, in the Curran section, raised over his grave. Since that date—22nd February, 1832—nearly six hundred thousand have followed him into the valley of death in Glasnevin. page 13 James MARTIN, AN ardent Repealer, a true patriot, and an esteemed member of the National Trades Political Union, has also sepulture here. He died 15th February, 1845. page 22 Richard SCOTT, RICHARD and John SCOTT, of Middle Gardiner Street, placed a tablet here to commemorate their parents. Their father, Richard, was conducting agent to Daniel O'CONNELL at the famous Clare election of 1828. He died on the 26th July, 1859, aged 85 years. page 26 THE FIRST HEADSTONE THERE are thousands of costly works of art in Glasnevin Cemetery, and hundreds of thousands of pounds have been spent upon them. But the first stone that marked a grave in the Cemetery is of the most unpretentious character. It is an upright, oblong slab of unadorned limestone. "This stone was erected by Mrs. Elizabeth CAMPBELL, in memory of her beloved husband, Mr. Patrick CAMPBELL, of Campbell Place, Mountjoy Square, who departed this life on the 4th day of November, 1830, in the 66th year of his age. The remains were removed here on the 29th February, 1832. This was the first stone erected in the Cemetery." Mrs. CAMPBELL died on St. Patrick's Day, 1852. page 27 Patrick Frederick GALLAGHER, THE ventriloquist, who delighted audiences throughout Ireland for many years (1800-1863). He was the father of the well-known editor of the Freeman's Journal under Dwyer-Gray's proprietorship, and whose sons inherited in turn many of the qualities that make journalism "racy of the soil." page 28 John KEOGH, A coffin-maker in Cook Street, was the father of the celebrated pulpit-orator, Father KEOGH, to whom a tablet is erected in Baldoyle Chapel, but whose remains lie in the vaults of SS. Michael and John. Father KEOGH died 9th September, 1831, aged 43 years, but his father, here interred, reached the patriarchial age of 94 years, dying on the 10th May, 1834. "Father Keogh," says the London and Dublin Magazine, of 1827, "teaches you, even at the first glance, to feel that it is not his part to accommodate his opinions or expressions to your previously indulged habits. He wrings from you by his air and manner a tacit acknowledgment of his supremacy; and you stand before him in submissive silence as one bound to listen. He is decidedly the most popular and eloquent preacher of the day." Nor did he disavow his lowly origin. "How is your father," was asked of him one day. "Oh," replied KEOGH, with a very long visage, "I left him working for death!" (Wits and Worthies"). page 82 Thomas ARKINyguard, and die din 1880, aged 80 years. page 83 Alderman John REYNOLDS REPRESENTED the City of Dublin at Westminster from 1847-'52. He served the office of Lord Mayor of the city in the year 1850, when his name appears ex- officS WAS a follower of O'CONNELL, and his grave lies outside the Circle in which the Liberator's remains lie. ARKINS was a Poor Law Guardian for forty years; but the distinction he himself claimed was that of being Sword Bearer to O'CONNELL, the first Catholic Lord Mayor of Dublin. He was one of the last survivors of his leader's faithful bodio first on the list of those who summoned the Tenant Conference to meet at the Royal Exchange, on Tuesday, the 6th August of the year. Neither he nor Mr. John O'CONNELL, M.P., took any part in the conference, or in its subsequent developments. Reynolds allied himself with KEOGH and SADLEIR, and it subsequently was proved that "he accepted money extracted from officers for whom he had procured compensation in Parliament" (The League of North and South," p. 289). He was one of the demagogues elected at this time "whom you might as profitably send to Westminster pledged to resist temptation, as cast flax into the furnace, with an exhortation not to burn" (Id. p.27). He was relegated to private life at the General Election of 1852. He died at the age of 73, in the year 1868, and has a monument erected to his memory "by his fellow-citizens, in recognition of long public services, discharged with marked ability and energy."