GRAVES OF REPUBLICANS, POETS AND IRISH HEROES - A HISTORY LESSON AWAITING CHARLES

KEVIN BARRY: Medical student. One of the Forgotten 10 executed during the War of Independence.

Dáithí Ó CONAILL: Founding member of the Provisional

IRA ROGER CASEMENT: British human rights campaigner turned revolutionary, executed in Pentonville Prison for treason in 1916.

ROBERT ERSKINE CHILDERS: British author who smuggled guns on the Asgard for anti Treaty republicans and was executed in 1922 by the Irish Free State government.

ÉAMON DE VALERA: Buried with his wife Sinéad in a modest grave.

MICHAEL COLLINS: The grave of the Big Fella, pictured, is always covered in fresh flowers. MAUD GONNE: Muse and object of WB Yeats’s unrequited love. Gonne, pictured, is buried with her son, Nobel Peace Prize winner Seán MacBride, in the Republican plot.

CONSTANCE MARKIEVICZ: First woman elected to the British House of Commons and a minister in the first Irish government.

DANIEL O’CONNELL: The Liberator opened the cemetery in 1832 and is buried in a family vault under the O’Connell Tower.

JEREMIAH O’DONOVAN ROSSA: Fenian leader and IRB member. Pádraig Pearse’s oration at his graveside inspired the Rising.

CHARLES STEWART PARNELL: Home Ruler and Irish nationalist.

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS: Poet, Catholic convert and Jesuit.