Ireland – Page 2 – Dying to Get In

Noble graveyard in the grounds of Kilkenny Castle

stolenchild66 December 10, 2019 1 Comment

Walking the grounds of Kilkenny Castle, we happened upon a family graveyard, home to the various Earls of Ormonde. The Butlers of Ormonde owned Kilkenny Castle for nearly six centuries. [...]

Wolfe Tone's grave Bodenstown Co Kildare

Bodenstown Graveyard, Co. Kildare

stolenchild66 December 19, 2018 No Comments

As a child in the 1970s, I remember June as an ambiguous time. Crowds would come down from the North to commemorate the death of Wolfe Tone, the founder of [...]

Famine graveyard Mullingar Co. Westmeath Ireland

Dying of famine

stolenchild66 January 26, 2014 3 Comments

Those of you who grew up in Ireland might remember the nuns telling you to eat all your lunch because there were millions of black babies in Africa who were [...]

Educational epitaphs

stolenchild66 August 22, 2013 2 Comments

I thought I was a little odd visiting Bródy Sándor’s grave each November and leaving flowers, but I have nothing on this 40-something French girl who comes to Ireland five [...]

Touching coffins in Dublin

stolenchild66 August 20, 2013 3 Comments

There are more people buried in Glasnevin cemetery in Dublin that are currently alive in the city. I heard that on Saturday and it still hasn’t sunk in: 1.5 million [...]