Militaria Archive
Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland
The graves of many key figures in the struggle for Irish Independence through several centuries. Including Daniel O’ Connell, Michael Collins, Charles Stewart Parnell, Éamon de Valera, Arthur Griffith, Countess Markievicz, Michael Cusack, Robert Erskine Childers, Roger Casement, Frank Ryan, Sean Devoy, Cathal Brugha, James Stephens along with many Dublin Brigade Irish Republican Army veterans of the Easter Rising 1916, the Irish War of Independence (1919 - 1921) and Irish Civil War (1921 - 1923).
Peadar Clancy, Richard McKee, both murdered while in British captivity, 22nd November 1920. Lieut. Edward Byrne (21), B Company, 2nd Battalion, Dublin Brigade. Fought in the Easter Rising of 1916 at the GPO. In War of Independence took part in armoured car raid and attempted Prison Break from Mountjoy Prison of Sean McEoin. Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland.
