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Famous Irish Graves -They are dead but where are they buried.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 92 ✭✭kja1888


    Andrew Kerins (Brother Walfrid), of Ballymote, Co Sligo and founder of Celtic FC is buried in a beautiful spot overlooking the mountains, with many other members of his order in a school in Dumfries, Scotland.


  • Registered Users Posts: 984 ✭✭✭Dummy


    I brought my little boy to see the Lusitania grave in the graveyard in Cobh today. This is a graveyard full of history.

    The first grave I came upon, after the Lusitania grave, was a chap by the name of Verling. Verling was the dental surgeon to Napolean Bonepart.

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    Here is a link that gives more information - http://www.napoleonichistory.com/napoleon_and_dr__verling_on_st__helena_57270.htm


  • Registered Users Posts: 984 ✭✭✭Dummy


    Also in Cobh graveyard, I came upon Jack Doyles grave. Jack Doyle was a very famous boxer, who in America, starred in two Hollywood movies.

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    Here is a Wikipedia article about Doyle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Doyle

    There was a short piece on a noticeboard at the graveyard about Doyle, which said that he died penniless and homeless in London. How sad for a man who should have had it all.

    I just found this video about Jack Doyle - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR2vvBekteo


  • Registered Users Posts: 984 ✭✭✭Dummy


    Some time ago, I came across Lord Haw Haw's, William Joyce, grave in Galway.

    Here is sime info about Lord Haw Haw - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Haw-Haw

    And here is a recording of one of his broadcasts - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quyBOAAy8Y8

    And here are the images of his grave:

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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 806 ✭✭✭getzls


    Humpy Joe Biggar, MP for Co. Caven. Only Catholic that is buried in the Church Of Ireland Parish Church in Carnmoney, Co. Antrim.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    They called him the Iron Duke in his lifetime for the metal bars he put on the windows of his London home to protect it from rioters.

    He had an aversion to being called "horse" and was allegedly born in Trim,Co Meath.

    He has an obelisk erected to him in Phoenix Park and his horse is buried in the gardens of Kilmainham Hospital.

    He was buried in St Pauls Cathedral London in 1852.

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    Its Arthur Wellsley, Duke of Wellington .

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    It was one of the most spectacular public events in London in the nineteenth century.

    As Churchill was looked on for saving Europe from Hitler, Wellington, saved Europe from Napoleon.

    Check this link for a description

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    The Duke of Wellington's funeral caused as much of a stir in the mass media of 1852 as did Sir Winston Churchill's in the middle of the twentieth century. The Illustrated London News devoted columns of print and a plethora of large- and small-scale plates not merely to the Iron Duke's funeral in London's St. Paul's Cathedral (he was carried through the streets on the same funeral car used for Lord Nelson years before and Churchill over a century later), but also to a retrospective of his illustrious military career, the apogee of which, of course, was his triumphing of the greatest military genius the world had produced since Julius Gaius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, on the field of Waterloo in Belgium. Here is what The Illustrated London News had to say:
    The grave has closed over the mortal remains of the greatest hero of our age, and one of the purest-minded men recorded in history. Wellington and Nelson sleep side by side under the dome of St. Paul's, and the national mausoleum our of isles has received the most illustrious of its dead. With pomp and circumstances, a fervour of popular respect, a solemnity and a grandeur never before seen in our time, and in all probability, not to be surpassed in the obsequies of any other hero heretofore to be born, to become the benefactor of this country, the sacred relics of Arthur Duke of Wellington have been deposited in the place long since set apart by the unanimous design of his countrymen. . . . all the sanctity and awe inspired by the grandest of religious services performed in the grandest Protestant temple in the world, were combined to render the scene, inside and outside of St. Paul's Cathedral on Thursday last, the most memorable in our annals. . . . .
    Amid the rise, and perhaps the fall, of empires, amid "fear of change perplexing the nations," amid earthquake and flood, a trembling earth and a weeping sky, Wellington was conveyed from his lonely chamber at Walmer to the more splendid halting-place of Chelsea, and from thence to his grave, in the heart of London. To the popular apprehension — felt, if not expressed — it seemed as if the great funeral of that great man were only to fitly celebrated amid mystic voices predicting —
    A time of conflict fierce and trouble strange,
    When Old and New, over a dark abyss,
    Fight the great battle of relentless change;
    And when the very elements seemed to sympathise with the feelings of living men at the loss of one so mighty as he had been in his day and generation.
    But the hero is entombed, and the voice of his contemporaries has spoken his apotheosis. Every incident in his long and honourable life has been sought for and recorded. — Saturday, 20 November 1852 [on the same page as the picture "[URL="http://www.victorianweb.org/periodicals/iln/20f.html"]The Lying in State at Chelsea Hospital[/URL]"]
    These are but some of the illustrations:
    3 November 1852. Preparations in St. Paul's Cathedral for the Funeral of the Duke [of Wellington] — The Nave by Gaslight
    20 Nov. 1852: "The Lying in State at Chelsea Hospital. — The Vestibule."
    20 Nov. 1852: "The Duke's Funeral. — Temple -Bar." (p. 429)
    20 Nov. 1852: "The Duke of Wellington's Funeral Car. — (Drawn on the wood, at The School of Design, Marlborough House.)" (p. 440)
    11 Dec. 1852: "Batons [of] The Late Duke of Wellington." (p. 532)
    Portraits

    20 November 1852. Medal of the Late Duke of Wellington, by Pinches.
    18 September 1852. Field Marshall His Grace the Duke of Wellington by Sir Thomas Lawrence
    20 November 1852: "The Late Duke of Wellington. — From a Miniature by Sir George Hayter." (p. 429)
    20 November 1852: The Late Duke of Wellington — Painting by Pelligrini (p.429)
    11 December 1852: "'The Hero and His Horse on the Field of Waterloo, Twenty Years After the Battle.' — Painted by B. B. Haydon. — Engraved by Permission." (p. 532)
    11 December 1852: "First School of the Late Duke of Wellington, At Trim." (p. 533)


    http://www.victorianweb.org/periodicals/iln/20j.html

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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Anyone know where the Iron Duke older brother (He who doubled the size of India when viceroy ) is buried ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    Anyone know where the Iron Duke older brother (He who doubled the size of India when viceroy ) is buried ?

    The guy you are refering to is Richard Wellesley - Ist Marquis Wellesley - who was a very public supporter of Catholic Emancipation and married a Roman Catholic.

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    http://www.historyhome.co.uk/people/wellesle.htm

    As Lord Lieutenant of Ireland he dealt with a mini famine
    When in 1822, through scarcity of food, owing partly to the disturbed state of the country and partly to natural causes, a considerable number of the poorest members of the community were threatened with starvation, he organised an effective system of relief, obtaining a grant of £300,000 from the government, and raising public subscriptions amounting to £350,000 from England, and to £150,000 in Ireland, to which he contributed £500 out of his private purse.

    That dispells a myth on inaction during times of famine.
    Wellesley died at Kingston House, Brompton, on 26 September 1842 in his eighty-third year, and was buried at Eton in the college chapel on 8 October His widow, who was a lady of the bedchamber to the Queen-dowager Adelaide, died at Hampton Court Palace on 17 December. 1853.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    kja1888 wrote: »
    Andrew Kerins (Brother Walfrid), of Ballymote, Co Sligo and founder of Celtic FC is buried in a beautiful spot overlooking the mountains, with many other members of his order in a school in Dumfries, Scotland.


    Andrew Kerins ....not a GAA fan, qualified as a teacher before joining the Marist Order and as a monk worked in Glasgow and the East End of London.

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    A native of Ballymote in Sligo there are memorials to him there


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    and in Celtic Park




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭MarchDub


    CDfm wrote: »




    That dispells a myth on inaction during times of famine.


    To be fair the issue is about whether there was 'sufficient' action -not 'inaction' during the Famine. Just saying...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    MarchDub wrote: »
    To be fair the issue is about whether there was 'sufficient' action -not 'inaction' during the Famine. Just saying...

    True -both Wellesley brothers had the same mindset on famine and it's recurrance and the need for action.

    Its ironic that they are on the same page as Brother Walfrid.


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