Glasnevin Museum

arnhem44

Just saw this on the CWGC site,may be of interest to some here.

http://www.cwgc.org/news.asp?newsid=168&view=yes

GLASNEVIN CEMETERY IN DUBLIN OPENS NEW MUSEUM
A €12 million visitor centre and museum at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin will open its doors on April 8.
Work on the 1,900 square metre centre started in 2008, and was funded entirely by the Glasnevin Cemeteries Group. It includes a visitor centre, a crypt museum, restaurant, exhibition space, Daniel O'Connell lecture hall, conference room, and staff offices. The new museum will also provide access to burial records, including those of O'Connell, Michael Collins and Charles Stewart Parnell.
More than 1.2 million people have been buried in Glasnevin Cemetery since it opened in 1832. Among them, there are more than 200 Commonwealth war graves of the two world wars. In the Republic of Ireland alone, the Commission is responsible for nearly 700 war graves and commemorates nearly 3,100 servicemen and women around the country.
The graves of the war casualties were not originally marked by headstones – the names inscribed upon two memorials that stand at the South-East end of the old ground. But in November 2009, a joint project between the Commission and Glasnevin Trust, saw four Commonwealth war graves marked for the first time with the well known “war pattern” CWGC headstone. This is part of a long term project to mark the war graves individually, and therefore honour the sacrifice of all those Irishmen and women who died in, or as a result of their injuries received in, the two world wars and who rest in this famous cemetery.
The Commission has worked closely with the Glasnevin Trust on this worthy project and is extremely grateful to them for all their assistance. Both Glasnevin and the Commission were founded on similar principles - that equality of treatment for all in death was essential. Ensuring that religion, race, creed nor culture should determine someone's resting place or their form of commemoration are values which continue to guide the Commission's work in 150 countries around the world today.
For more information about the cemetery and the new centre, please follow this link http://www.glasnevintrust.ie/

arnhem44

Although the event has passed a little video marking the ceremony from Glasnevin from the CWGC for anyone interested. http://www.cwgc.org/news.asp?newsid=203&view=yes

R.Dub.Fusilier

arnhem44 wrote: »

Although the event has passed a little video marking the ceremony from Glasnevin from the CWGC for anyone interested. http://www.cwgc.org/news.asp?newsid=203&view=yes

good video A44 thanks for putting it up. i was at this , there was a good few people there but i got the impression it was not open to the general public
and was by invitation only. i went under the tape to the area shown in the video.

R.Dub.Fusilier

the headstones had been arranged like those of CWGC so people could see how they would be laid out. the headstones have since been put over the graves of the service men.