A lion tamer, the inventor of goggles and the woman who died twice – meet Glasnevin’s lesser-known residents
Glasnevin Cemetery is the final resting place of over a million people. Here, tour guide Warren Farrell introduces us to some fascinating residents of the Dublin burial ground, where every grave has a story to tell...
Warren Farrell at Glasnevin Cemetary
In late 2014, I hesitated about going to the award-winning documentary One Million Dubliners with my father, at the now-demolished Screen Cinema on Hawkins Street. I had to be convinced that going to see a film about a cemetery and death on a cold night in Dublin was a good idea.
With just four other people in the audience for the screening, we watched as the late Shane MacThomáis spoke about the history of Ireland’s necropolis — Glasnevin. It piqued my interest in the cemetery, and the following year, while studying history at Maynooth University, I chose to focus one assignment on the life of an individual who was simply recorded as a ‘man supposed to be Geoghegan’ in Glasnevin’s digitised archives.
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