Wordless Wednesday: Gated Community: Glasnevin

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Tombstone Tuesday: A family, one of many: Glasnevin

The stone reads:

Erected by

Mr. Henry Chapman

of Great Brunswick Street

in memory of his beloved Daughter

Elizabeth

who departed this life 31st May 1834

Aged 1 year

Also his Daughter Maria who died 8th Dec. 1838

In the 4th year of her age

Her also the remains of his beloved Wife Sarah

who departed this life the 15th of December 1840

Aged 42 Years.

Here also lie the remains of the above named

Henry Chapman who died October the 25th, 1846

Aged 64 years.

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Wordless Wednesday: In the shadows and out: More Angels

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Tombstone Tuesday: The Very Reverend Daniel William Cahill, D.D.

Daniel William Cahill, D.D. (Doctor of Divinity), a Catholic Priest, was born in 1796 in Queen's County, Ireland. After completing studies at Maynooth, he was ordained, and for a time served as a professor in Carlow College. He was a noted orator and lecturer in Chemistry and Astronomy, the author of many pamphlets, and for a brief period, the editor of a Dublin newspaper. He removed to the United States, and died in Boston 28 October 1864. In 1885 his remains were returned to Ireland, and interred in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin. In 1887, as a symbol of grateful recognition of Doctor Cahill's service to Ireland, his compatriots erected this statue over his grave.

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Reference for Cahill bio:

O'Hart, John. Irish Pedigrees; or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation, Murphy & McCarthy, Dublin, 1923.

To mark Bloomsday: Glasnevin

from James Joyce's Ulysses:

Paddy Dignam: (In a hollow voice) “It is true. It was my funeral. Doctor Finucane pronounced life extinct when I succumbed to the disease from natural causes."

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Wordless Wednesday: Slow down in this slow place...

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