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).
Leo Fitzgerald, killed in an Auxilliaries ambush on a republican meeting at 144 Brunswick Street, Dublin. Volunteer Leo Fitzgerald, B Company, 3rd Battalion Dublin Brigade, Irish Republican Army was killed, as were Constable James O'Farrell and Cadet Bernard Beard of the Dublin Metropolitan Police. Thomas Traynor who had fought in Bolands Mill Easter 1916 was captured in this ambush and later executed by the British. Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland.
