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).
Frank Ryan, Irish Civil War Republican who went on to fight in Spanish Civil War (at one point commanding British Battalion), sentenced to Death in Spain which was commmuted to life. Released by Spain to the Abwehr in 1940 with whom he worked for several years. Was present on U-65 when Sean Russel died. Frank Ryan died in Dresden in 1944. Remains repatriated to Ireland in 1979 for re-burial at Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland.
