Experience Glasnevin - Ireland's National Cemetery
Historic garden cemetery guarded by watchtowers and bloodhounds against nineteenth-century body snatchers.
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This guide to Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin traces why watchtowers and Cuban bloodhounds once guarded its walls at night in the 1840s, starting with Daniel O'Connell's founding of the cemetery in 1832 as burial ground open to any faith. You'll hear about the era's resurrection men, the grave robbers Dublin's medical schools relied on for cadavers, and about a Trinity professor who admitted paying for bodies by the shilling. It's told from beneath the towers where watchmen once scanned the grounds after dark.
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