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).
Richard Fisher and James Twohig, Anti-treaty Volunteers executed for posession of a handgun during Irish Civil War, November 17th 1922. Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland. Rory O'Connor, anti-Treaty IRA. Executed by Pro-Treaty forces on 8th of December 1922. The execution order was signed by Kevin O'Higgins, who less than a year earlier appointed O'Connor best man at his wedding. Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland.
