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| THE OCONNELL MONUMENT - Glasnevin Cemetery, situated in a pleasant suburb of Dublin, is the last resting place of many famous people in Irish history. It holds, among others, the relics of Anne Devlin, the brave and faithful housekeeper of Robert Emmet; of John Philpot Curran, the king of Irish forensic eloquence; of Terence Bellew MacManus, the "rebel" leader of 1848, whose public funeral in 1861, "breathed a new soul into Ireland;" of John O'Mahony, the chief and founder of the Fenian Brotherhood; and also of Daniel O'Connell, the emancipator of the Irish Catholics, whose imposing monument is shown in the accompanying sketch. O'Connell, whose public life covered half a century, died in Genoa, while en route to Rome, May 15, 1847. His remains, except his heart, which was bequeathed to the Eternal City, were taken to Dublin, and were escorted from the capital to Glasnevin by the greatest funeral procession ever seen in Ireland. The body reposed in a temporary tomb until 1869, when it was placed in a vault under the majestic round tower, so emblematic of his genius, which the love and gratitude of his country raised to his memory. No more fitting monument could have been erected to him whose name and fame shall be imperishable while Ireland and liberty endure. |
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